Omnilert sends emergency messages across SMS, email, voice, desktop, app push, signage and other endpoints, and in its Manage tier launches predefined scenarios from API, IoT, weather and panic-button triggers. Its gun-detection product analyses existing camera streams and routes detections to professional monitoring, an internal security operations centre or a third-party monitor for human verification. It is aimed at US schools, campuses, healthcare, government and enterprises.
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US campuses, schools and facilities that want mass notification tied to lockdown, access control and camera-based threat detection. SMS goes through a US shortcode that works only with US phone numbers, and carriers may not return delivery receipts. Two-way responses, automation and detection sit in higher tiers or separate products, so fix the tier before comparing quotes.
Worth evaluating for US schools, campuses and facilities that want notification, lockdown automation and camera-based detection from one vendor, because the tiers allow starting with Notify and adding automation later. Less suited to organisations with many non-US recipients, or to EHS teams looking for incident management rather than emergency communications.
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Omnilert is a US emergency communications vendor that also sells AI gun detection on existing security cameras, professional monitoring for detections and AI camera health monitoring. Its communications platform has three tiers: Notify, Engage and Manage. Notify covers one-way multichannel alerts, group segmentation, templates, mobile and desktop apps and API access. Engage adds polls, check-ins, response-based escalation, live status dashboards, with tip-report, safe-walk and weather add-ons available. Manage adds the scenario engine, IoT, weather and panic-button triggers, access control and video-system tie-ins and lockdown tools. Gun detection, monitoring and camera health are separate products.
| Capability | Evidence | Scope and source |
|---|---|---|
| Multichannel alerts | Documented by vendor | Listed channels include SMS, email, voice, desktop, app push, signage, alarms and access control; Notify includes group segmentation, saved templates and API access. Mass notification channels and featuresSolution tiers: Notify, Engage and Manage |
| Two-way responses and escalation | Depends on scope | Engage tier: polls, check-ins, escalation based on recipients' responses and live status dashboards. Solution tiers: Notify, Engage and Manage |
| Scenario automation and triggers | Depends on scope | Manage tier. A Super Admin links an API trigger to a scenario; any HTTPS POST carrying the trigger's key launches it, and new triggers stay inactive until activated. The tiers page also lists trigger-based automation from IoT, weather and panic-button sources; CAP appears on the security-workflow page only as an output feed. Solution tiers: Notify, Engage and ManageAPI triggersSecurity workflow automation, endpoints and app |
| SMS delivery tracking | Documented by vendor | Message history shows statuses from Prerouting Complete to Delivered to Handset and carrier error codes; receipts are optional for carriers, and shortcode 79516 serves US numbers only. SMS delivery statuses |
| Access control, video and monitoring integrations | Depends on scope | Named integrations include Avigilon Alta, Axis relays, Milestone, Genetec, Securitas, SureView Systems, ADT Commercial and Johnson Controls; confirm your product versions. Integration partners and open approach |
| AI gun detection with human verification | Depends on scope | Runs on existing camera streams; detections carry a still image, close-up, video snippet and map, and go to Omnilert's UL-certified monitoring, your SOC through VMS or control-room platforms, your team in Omnilert apps, or a third-party monitor. AI gun detection and camera FAQProfessional monitoring and human verification |
| Camera health monitoring | Depends on scope | A separate AI product that grades existing cameras for blur, obstruction, field-of-view change, exposure and other image-quality problems. AI camera health monitoring |
| Single sign-on | Documented by vendor | Shibboleth logins through InCommon or an exchange of metadata, and LDAP logins, set up with Omnilert support. Single sign-on options |
| Native desktop and shared-display alerts | Depends on scope | The native Desktop Alert is an available add-on for desktop devices and wall-mounted displays, with rich messages, audible alarms, priority-alert responses, group targeting, device enablement or disablement and optional automatic updates. Confirm deployment rights, supported operating systems and the add-on price. Desktop alert deployment, device management and priority interactions — checked 28 September 2026Solution tiers: Notify, Engage and Manage |
| Mobile tips, panic and safe-walk interactions | Depends on scope | The Engage tier lists app-based tip reporting, safe walk and weather, while the platform brochure describes routed tips and a panic button that can call emergency services or an internal response centre and supply location. Confirm privacy, routing and monitoring responsibilities for every interaction. Solution tiers: Notify, Engage and ManageMobile safety interactions, tips, panic button and tier boundaries — checked 28 September 2026 |
Also watch for: The SMS shortcode works only for US phone numbers. Scenario automation, access control and video integration need the Manage tier. Detection accuracy statements come from the vendor and a customer quotation, not independent testing. The only public price is an approximate range in the vendor's own comparison table.
Quote only; the vendor states an approximate annual range
Omnilert's own comparison table on its emergency notification page gives a cost of about $2.5K-15K per year, tiered; it does not establish a scoped tariff or universal package. The solution pages direct buyers to sales for a free quote.
Pricing sources checked : Partially verified. The emergency notification page's comparison table and the solution tiers page were read on 25 September 2026. Neither publishes a tier price, a recipient-based rate or a contract term.
Omnilert describes its notification system as cloud-based and failure-resistant, monitorable from any device, and its professional monitoring service lists three redundant US monitoring centres with power, network and IT redundancy. No offline or degraded-connectivity mode for administrators or recipients was established in the reviewed pages. SMS delivery depends on the carriers, which are not required to return receipts.
No. Omnilert's help centre marks that administrator-only app as deprecated and points administrators to the mobile-friendly admin portal instead.
Omnilert says it analyses standard video feeds from existing cameras, provided camera placement and video quality give a clear view. Test your camera models, angles and lighting.
Options are Omnilert's professional monitoring (UL and TMA Five Diamond certifications, three US centres), your own SOC through VMS or control-room integration, your security team in Omnilert apps, or a third-party monitoring provider.
The SMS delivery article states that shortcode 79516 works only with US-based numbers. Ask how non-US recipients are reached by email, voice or app push.
Omnilert states that its AI gun detection received full SAFETY Act designation in March 2025, which it presents as liability protection. It is not a published accuracy test; ask your counsel what it covers.
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Same: scope, offline and trial.
Side by side: Omnilert and AlertMediaNo shared category tag.
Differs: trial on request (this profile: not established).
Same: scope, offline and price.
Side by side: Omnilert and EverbridgeShared category tags: 1 (Emergency Management).
Differs: offline partial workflow (this profile: unclassified); price no verified amount (this profile: amount published).
Same: scope and trial.
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