Comprehensive Mass Notification System Design
When it’s time to update your mass notification sirens, trust OmniWarn Public Safety for comprehensive and cost-effective warning system design. Whether you need to replace outdated equipment or add features that can improve reliability, safety and warning times, we can help. We specialize in layering equipment and software to add life-saving automation and integration to your mass notification system.
Federal Signal:
Reliability You Can Trust
Our outdoor warning sirens are made in the USA by Federal Signal, a trusted leader with more than 125 years in the mass notification industry. With solar power, battery backup and multiple communication channels including radio, IP, cellular and satellite, your outdoor warning system stays operational no matter what.
Trust OmniWarn Public Safety for Cost-Effective Warning System Design
OmniWarn is your factory direct provider for Federal Signal products in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Arizona and New Mexico. We have over 16 years of combined industry experience and our technicians provide siren system engineering with factory direct pricing. When you’re satisfied with your new warning system design, our factory-trained technicians will provide reliable warning system installation and performance optimization.
How We Design Your Warning System
1. Meet with You
An effective mass notification system design starts with identifying your needs. During your free consultation, we’ll discuss the types of sirens you want, including voice and tone sirens.
2. Identify Your Requirements
Next, we’ll go over the area you want to cover. We’ll make note of the terrain, whether it’s cities or open areas, as well as any elevation changes to ensure your community is protected.
3. Perform an Acoustic Study
We use our software to determine how sirens will cover an area, how new sirens might intermix with your existing sirens to cover better and how voice vs tone will provide different coverage.
4. Siren System Design & Layout
Once we’ve assessed your requirements, our engineers will create an outdoor warning siren system that can be heard by the people you want to protect across your coverage area.
Why Acoustic Mapping Is Essential
Rather than simply drawing coverage circles on a map, we use advanced sound propagation software for acoustic mapping. This factors in real-world obstacles such as terrain, buildings and ambient noise. The result is a layered siren map that ensures effective coverage everywhere you need it to keep your constituents safe.
Your Customized Warning System May Include
We may design your comprehensive warning system with giant voice sirens, mechanical sirens or a combination of both. We’ll take a layered approach to ensure you can alert as many people as possible. Our Federal Signal adaptable mass notification systems are built with the future in mind, so they can easily be updated as technology changes.
Outdoor Warning Sirens
OmniWarn provides comprehensive Federal Signal outdoor warning siren systems, including traditional tornado sirens and advanced voice-capable sirens that can provide detailed alerts. Sound output can be dynamically adjusted based on the type of hazard and the area you need to notify. For example, tornado warnings can sound at 100% volume to warn a large area, while lighting alerts can sound at 25% volume to warn people nearby.
Tone-only sirens, such as the Federal Signal 2001-130, can be used for an all hazard warning system, alerting the public to any life-threatening emergency.
Voice capable sirens, like the Federal Signal Modulator, in key areas such as parks, sports complexes and lakes for notification of specific hazards such as hail and lightning.
Mass Messaging
Send automated or custom messages for lightning alerts, all clear signals, park closures, game cancellations or any other emergency notifications.
IPAWS Integration
Your mass notification system can work with FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) so you can add wireless emergency alerts for WEA, NOAA weather radios and more.
Lightning Detection & Alerting Systems
Our lightning detection system uses the same network trusted by the NWS, FAA and NASA to provide accurate, real-time alerts and eliminate false alarms caused by consumer-grade lightning detection devices.
- Lighting alerts are delivered with clear, concise voice messages about the hazard and precautions.
- Integrates with a variety of speakers and sirens, from small speakers such as the Federal Signal Informer 100 that covers the area of a football field to giant voice sirens like the Federal Signal Modulator series that covers up to one mile.
Advanced Capability & Automation
Get automatic alerts and siren warnings for multiple hazards. Voice capable warning sirens from Federal Signal do more than just warn about lightning. Our advanced sirens can be programmed to broadcast warnings for severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, high winds, and hail. We can even add automation to unlock community storm shelter doors when a tornado watch or warning is issued, or to shut off water to splash pads when lighting is detected nearby.
CommanderOne Software
CommanderOne is your gateway to total control of your mass notification system, automatically or manually, no matter where you are. Activate sirens from National Weather Service polygons, send mass text message alerts and see the status of your emergency warning system using any web browser or mobile device.
Weather Stations & Cameras
Accurately monitor local conditions with a weather station that includes lightning detection, wildfire detection, wind sensors, water level monitoring and more. Connect your weather station to your lightning alerting speakers to receive hyper-local weather data for critical weather decisions. Include PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) or standard cameras to see conditions across your city in real time.