Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 31, 2008 -- In a time of escalating school violence and extreme weather events, schools need a way to quickly notify students and teachers of emergencies. BellCommander 4 provides a flexible and affordable campus emergency notification system using a school's existing computers, network, and VoIP phones.

Each campus defines emergency events specific to the school such as tornado, school lockdown, or fire. Actions are then assigned to each emergency notification, including playing or looping audio files and closing relays for interfacing with other systems. In the event of an emergency, an emergency notification is launched by either pressing a single button in the BellCommander application or by dialing an emergency code on a SIP phone. The notification is then broadcast over IP across to classroom PCs and to network audio players from Barix. Using Barix network audio devices, an entire campus can receive notifications from BellCommander.

BellCommander is trusted by hundreds of schools, colleges, universities, and businesses around the world for school bell, factory bell, paging, and emergency notification applications. The system is designed to scale in both price and features and is very popular in private and charter schools and has also scaled to large district-wide installations at public school districts. The BellCommander school bell system component is one of the industry's most flexible and includes support for unlimited day schedules, 200+ events per day, multiple zones, and changing schedules on-the-fly.

BellCommander is priced starting at $79.95 for single PC configurations and $299.95 for network configurations. A free trial of the BellCommander can be downloaded from the BellCommander website.