Compact desktop paging encoders that are specifically designed to provide low cost paging in small medical facilities, specific floors in hospitals, nursing homes, etc. Compact waiting room paging systems to notify family and friends to return to the waiting area for news regarding the patient, or to discreetly notify patients when they are needed. Wide area paging services provide expanded paging coverage mainly in heavily populated areas to thousands of users. The disadvantage to wide area service in general is the time delay between initiating and receiving a page. Pages for each user are processed one at a time, thus creating a paging traffic jam in which the average message will be received by the user in 3-30 minutes.
Users receive a monthly service charge.
More importantly, in-house paging provides the user with a flexible paging process that can be handled by switchboard operators, local PABX systems, or local nurse call or security systems. These systems can provide detailed reports of all the messaging activities with date and time stamps. In-house paging systems use their own local radio transmitter that provides optimal local coverage. In-house paging has superior signal strength. Data is sent with greater accuracy resulting in no garbled messages.