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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alyssa’s Law requires schools to give staff a silent way to reach law enforcement directly. Now does exactly that: a silent press goes straight to law enforcement, with no app and no delay. It satisfies Washington’s ESSB 5004 and the panic–button mandate in states like New Jersey, Florida, New York, Texas, Tennessee, and Utah.
Schools in Washington can download a free Alyssa’s Law progress–report template for OSPI.
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.
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 satisfies the silent panic–button requirement at the heart of Alyssa’s Law, including Washington’s ESSB 5004 and the mandates in states like New Jersey, Florida, New York, Texas, Tennessee, and Utah. Every alert is logged, and Washington schools can download a free progress–report template for OSPI.
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.