DIAL NUMBER NOTIFICATION

Hi All,
There is an interesting discussion going on about notification of the Delegates about a Joint Meeting of the Executive Board and the Delegate
Assembly.
This is a solved problem if the Luddites running UCO would break out of their Not Invented Here philosophy and slide gracefully into the 21st. century.

In October of 2006 I researched and presented a report to the UCO Security Committee on how to notify every Unit Owner in CV of any message whatsoever by means of the Telephone system.
It is called Dialed Number Notification. You may be familiar with other names for this technology such a Dial-Logic or Code Red.
I have Cut and Pasted this report below minus the graphics, but if you want the entire report please send your Email address to me at nsasigint@comcast.net.

As you will see below, all of the Delegates could be notified by telephone in one or two hours depending on the length of the recorded message, even a long message of say 3 minutes could be Dialed-Out to the Delegates in 6 hours.

This assumes our own system which we can easily set up on a dedicated PC, not the commercial and expensive option also depicted for contrast in the report.

Of course this report was filed in the circular file as is most of my research efforts in behalf of the Village. Yes BLOGGERS it is very frustrating to repeatedly see that for a nominal cost a problem can be solved, but is not because it was not thought of by one of the "in crowd".

Report follows:

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To: Dave Bernstein/Zoltan Katz October 05, 2006
Co chair: UCO Security Committee

From: Dave Israel
Security committee

Subject: PC based Emergency Notification System (ENS)

1) Introduction and Background:

A number of PC based ENS are available. This Memo attempts to walk a line between speed of notification and cost. The basic assumption made in this paper is that no attempts will be made to replicate the power of Municipal systems such as Code Red. The fundamental limiting factor is the number of Telephones available.

2) Auto-Dialer basic computations:

Number of dedicated lines……….message length…………Calls per hour
1 30 Sec. 120
2 30 Sec. 240
3 30 Sec. 360
4 30 Sec. 480
24 (T1 Line) 30 Sec. 2880

Assuming worst case notification scenario, IE. 7854 Units to be notified we arrive at the following time lines for the complete cycle:

1 Dedicated line: 65 hours nominal
2 Dedicated lines: 33 hours nominal
3 Dedicated lines: 22 hours nominal
4 Dedicated lines: 16 hours nominal
24 (T1 Dedicated line): 3 hours nominal

In an Emergency, none of these time lines are ideal, the T1 Line being the most viable option. By way of comparison, West Palm Beach uses a commercial contractor named Code Red to put messages on the line at the rate of 60,000 calls per hour. Code Red uses Multiple T3 lines to achieve these rates. A T3 line has the ability to carry 672 Analogue Telephone channels and can cost $2500.00 per month. By comparison, another firm in the ENS businesses, Community Alert Network, (CAN), has a system



similar to Code Red, the CAN system uses circa 250 Telephone channels simultaneously to propagate 26,000 CPH. In November, 2005, CAN Proposed a contract to UCO to provide ENS service at a Base rate of $4,000.00 per year, plus a call usage fee of 15 cents per incomplete call and 25 cents per completed call. Find a copy of this proposal attached.

3) How an “In House” system would work:

Page 3 below depicts the a rear view of the Vendors box note the ability to patch up to 4 lines to the standard wall mounted Telephone plugs.

Page 4 below depicts the same rear view highlighting the next step of plugging the USB cable between the Vendor box and our computer. The microphone plug in is also shown which allow the user to record the message to be sent.

Page 5 below shows the CD to be loaded to install the software on our computer which will control the Vendor box.

Dave Israel