One press reaches the whole building.
NocTel Now is a panic button for schools and campuses. A press calls and texts the people you choose, pages the halls, changes the screens, and keeps going until someone answers.
One press, and everything responds.
A panic button is only as good as what happens next. A single press of a Now button can set off a whole sequence at the same moment, and you decide what each button does.
Press once. The whole building moves.
Alert 911 dispatch, lock the doors, sound the alarm, page the halls, change the screens, and ring the front office, all from one press, all at the same moment. It runs silently or out loud, and the responder sees where it came from.
- One press starts a whole coordinated response
- Silent or audible: signal for help without escalating
- The alert reports exactly where it came from
It works when nothing else does.
Now doesn’t ride on your WiFi or a cell signal. Each button has its own 900MHz radio that pushes through walls, floors, and dead zones (up to a mile outside, 1,500 feet through a building) with no congestion and no delay. A press never depends on your WiFi or a phone. The receivers that hear it need a way out to reach your people, and that path can include a backup.
- 900MHz radio: the button needs no WiFi, no cell, no app
- Through walls: a mile outdoors, 1,500 feet indoors
- Months on a charge, nothing to plug in at the wall
A button for every situation.
Three devices, all on the same 900MHz network and managed from the same place. Pre-configured out of the box.
For staff on the move
The classroom standard
The front office & security desk
Designed with school-safety alerting laws in mind.
Alyssa’s Law, passed in different forms in several states, is about giving staff a silent way to call for help. A silent press can reach 911 dispatch, set up with your local 911 center, and alerts your staff at the same moment, with no app to open. Now was designed with Washington’s ESSB 5004 and other states’ school-safety laws in mind. Ask us about yours and we’ll walk through the requirements plainly.
- Silent alert to 911 dispatch and your staff
- Designed with Washington’s ESSB 5004 in mind
- Every alert logged in Desk
Schools in Washington can download a free Alyssa’s Law progress-report template for OSPI.
Schools in Oregon: what Oregon’s panic alarm law asks of a school.
Push a button, get help. The rest is handled.
The press
- Silent or audible
- Lockdown
- Medical alert
- Maintenance request
- Classroom assist
- Scene control (multi-step)
What it can reach
- 911 dispatch, set up with your 911 center
- Door locks & access control
- Alarms & bells
- Intercom speakers (Alert)
- Screens & signage
- Phones & staff messages
How it runs
- 900MHz radio, no WiFi or cell
- Through walls and dead zones
- 1 mile outdoors, 1,500 ft indoors
- Instant: no queue, no congestion
- GPS location on the B1
- Months of battery per device
Manage in Desk
- Live status of every button
- Battery & signal health
- Low-battery alerts before it dies
- Full audit trail of every alert
- One or many campuses, one place
- Records for compliance reporting
Now is where it starts. The rest of NocTel is the response.
A button press is a starting point. Because Now runs in the same Desk as the rest of NocTel, that one press can reach your intercoms, your screens, and your phones the moment it happens, alongside your door locks and alarms. One press, every surface.
Questions about Now.
The button does. Every button has its own 900MHz radio, so a press never touches your WiFi and needs no cell service or app: it travels through walls and dead zones to a local gateway on its own signal. The gateway does need a way out to reach law enforcement and your staff, but that path is yours to choose: your local network, cellular, satellite, or something else. If the connection you normally rely on is the thing that fails, a second path is what keeps a press going through, and it is worth deciding which one that is before you need it.
It can. NocTel works with your local 911 center to set up how alerts reach dispatch, since each center takes them differently. The same silent press alerts the people your school chooses, with no app to open.
Yes. A single press can run a whole sequence at once: alert 911 dispatch, lock the doors, sound the alarm, page the halls, change the screens, and message staff. You decide what each button does, and the B6’s scene control is built for exactly this.
Now was designed with the silent panic-button requirement at the heart of Alyssa’s Law in mind, including Washington’s ESSB 5004. Tell us your state and we’ll walk through its requirements with you plainly.
You’ll know before it matters. NocTel Desk tracks the battery and signal of every button and sends a low-battery alert ahead of time. Batteries last months: up to four months on the B1, up to a year on the B4.
The buttons arrive pre-configured. Setup starts with a walk of your buildings to place the receivers, then the response is built in Desk.