Emergency screens: take over every display in the building at once
Fire, evacuation, lockdown or a burst pipe. One action replaces whatever is showing on every screen with the message and the muster point, and puts it all back afterwards. No walking the building, no unplugging anything.
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In the one moment a screen matters most, it is usually showing the lunch menu
Buildings invest in screens for the ordinary day and leave the extraordinary one to shouting.
A care home has a fire panel, a written evacuation procedure and six screens showing activities. During a drill, every screen carries on advertising the afternoon film while staff go room to room. A school corridor has three displays and a bell. When a lockdown is called, the displays continue to show the enrichment timetable, so a pupil who missed the announcement has nothing to read. An office building has a fire notice in a frame by the lift, written when the building opened, naming a muster point that moved when the car park was resurfaced.
What a screen that ignores an emergency costs you
Not everyone hears an announcement
Residents who are hard of hearing, pupils in a noisy corridor, visitors with headphones. A sounder tells people something is happening; a screen tells them what and where to go.
Somebody has to walk the building
If changing what is on a screen means going to it, then in an evacuation nobody changes it, because they are doing something more important.
Printed procedures go stale
A framed notice from four years ago still names the old muster point and the old fire marshal. Nobody re-frames it because nobody owns it.
Nobody puts it back
When a takeover means manually switching six screens, half of them are still showing the drill message the next morning, which trains people to ignore it.
One action, every screen, and back to normal when it is over
A takeover interrupts whatever is playing across the Screens you choose and shows the emergency Board instead. Trigger it from a phone. End it from the same phone, and every screen returns to its Playlist on its own.
Write the message before you need it
Fire evacuation, lockdown, site closed, power cut. Set them up once, with the muster point and the instruction, so nobody is composing words during an incident.
Trigger it from anywhere
From a phone in the car park or a laptop at the desk. Every Screen you selected changes within seconds.
Stand it down
One action returns every screen to what it was showing, so the drill message does not survive into Monday.
Ready-made emergency Boards: evacuation, alert and a quick message
These are the actual Boards a takeover puts on your screens.
How different buildings use an emergency takeover
Care homes: drills that residents can follow
Large type, the muster point, and staff instructions on every lounge and corridor screen, which helps most with residents who did not hear the alarm.
Schools: lockdown and evacuation on every corridor display
The same message in every corridor at the same moment, so pupils moving between lessons are not relying on hearing an announcement.
Offices: the muster point that is actually current
Change the assembly point once and every floor shows the new one, instead of reprinting a framed notice nobody owns.
Leisure centres: pool and gym at once
Wet areas, studios and reception carry the same instruction without a duty manager running between three buildings.
Why NowBoard suits the day it goes wrong
It interrupts, it does not queue
A takeover replaces what is playing immediately rather than waiting its turn in the Playlist.
Written in advance, sent in seconds
The wording, the muster point and the instruction are prepared when you are calm, not typed during an incident.
Choose which screens
The whole site, one building, or one floor. A kitchen fire need not take over a screen in another town.
It ends cleanly
Stand down once and every screen resumes on its own, so the message means something next time.
Useful for the ordinary disruption too
Burst pipe, lift out of service, site closed for snow. The same mechanism, used far more often than a fire.
Nothing extra to buy
It is part of the same Screen you already pay for, from £10 per Screen/month.
Common questions about emergency screens
Does this replace a fire alarm?
No, and it is not a life-safety system. It is a way to put the same instruction on every screen so people know where to go. Your alarm, panel and procedures stay exactly as they are.
Can it trigger automatically from our fire panel?
Not today. A takeover is started by a person from a phone or a laptop. If panel integration matters to you, tell us which panel you have.
How fast does it reach the screens?
Seconds, on every Screen that is connected.
What if a screen is offline at the time?
It shows the takeover as soon as it reconnects. A screen cannot be updated while it has no connection, which is worth knowing when you plan where they go.
Can we practise it?
Yes, and you should. Run it in a drill, check every screen changed, then stand down.
Make your screens useful on the worst day
Write the message now, so that triggering it later takes one action from a phone.