One button. Instant help. No app to open, no WiFi to fail.
NocTel Now is a panic button that works the moment it’s pressed: over its own 900MHz radio, through walls, with no WiFi or cell to fail. One press can notify law enforcement, lock the doors, sound the alarm, and alert every staff member at once.
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.
Notify law enforcement, 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 knows exactly which room 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. When the internet is down or the network is jammed, the press still goes through.
- 900MHz radio, no WiFi, no cell, no internet needed
- 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. Most schools are running within minutes.
For staff on the move
The classroom standard
The front office & security desk
Designed with school–safety alerting laws in mind.
Alyssa’s Law requires schools to give staff a silent way to reach law enforcement directly. Now was designed around that requirement: a silent press goes straight to law enforcement, with no app and no delay. It was designed with Washington’s ESSB 5004 and the panic–button mandates in other states in mind. Ask us about yours and we’ll walk through the requirements plainly.
- Silent alert, direct to law enforcement
- Meets Washington ESSB 5004 and more states
- Every alert logged for compliance reporting
Schools in Washington can download a free Alyssa’s Law progress–report template for OSPI.
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
- Law enforcement, directly
- Door locks & access control
- Alarms & bells
- Paging 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 paging, your screens, and your phones the moment it happens, alongside your door locks and alarms. One press, every surface.
Questions about Now.
Yes. Every button has its own 900MHz radio and doesn’t depend on WiFi, cellular, or the internet to send a press. The signal travels through walls and dead zones to a local gateway, so a press goes through even during an outage.
Yes. A press can send a silent, direct notification to law enforcement (the core requirement of Alyssa’s Law) with no app to open and no call to place.
Yes. A single press can run a whole sequence at once: notify law enforcement, 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 to work out of the box, and most schools are up and running within minutes. The B6 can be set up in the field by tapping it with an NFC device, no portal trip required.