Delivering the everyday reliability schools expect, with advanced capabilities
required for the future of safety communications.
Modern Communication
Spotlight streamlines everyday school operations with a powerful browser-based interface, allowing staff to manage two-way communication, paging, tones, and emergency alerts —all from an intuitive interactive floor plan view.
- View, initiate, and manage communications on an interactive floor plan of your school
- View real-time check-in status of classrooms during lockdown
Emergency page to classrooms and custom zones - Prerecord messages directly in Spotlight for immediate review and playback
- Manage users and access based on roles and permissions
- Two-way Intercom to classrooms
- Page to classrooms and custom zones
- Send tones and music distribution to classrooms and zones
The Informed Classroom
Communicate with audio-visual messaging in the classroom and ensure staff and students receive timely, clear, and accessible alerts and instructions where they spend most of their day.
Extend clear communications beyond the classroom to noisy hallways, gymnasiums, and other spaces where visual communication is crucial for conveying messages that are both intelligible and understood.
Beyond the Classroom
Paging and intercom remain the foundation of emergency response, leading to more favorable crisis outcomes. Automated, prerecorded emergency notifications keep your staff a step ahead when managing a crisis, as response times and message clarity are critical.
Traditional hallway speakers combined with a series of visual messaging displays with strobes ensure your messages reach the right people at the right time.
Manage The School Schedule
Create and manage your program in a calendar-style interface. With ease, change the daily schedule, create alternative schedules, and manage exclusion dates.
Decluttered Workspaces With One Phone To Do It All
The AdminConsole phone handles your everyday intercom, paging, and emergency response while making and taking phone calls from the classroom or outside calls using PBX phone system integration.
Scale and Integrate
Expand the CH1000X platform’s capabilities to include integrations with classroom phones, access control systems, video surveillance, earthquake detection, gunshot detection, vape sensors, and other third-party technologies.
Expand the possibilities of traditional General Purpose Input and Output (GPIO) integration with software and use CareHawk event-based automation for unprecedented flexibility.
Manage Communications With Confidence
The CH1000X provides the capacity and performance to stay on schedule, keep classrooms connected, and respond with confidence in any situation.
- 2 simultaneous tasks (e.g., tone playback, intercom, pages, music distribution, etc.)
- Up to 8 AdminConsole Administrative phones or Spotlight extensions
- 100 unique and customizable tones
- 99 call-in groups / Call-ins (queued) / Paging zones
- Up to 256 endpoints like Message Displays
- Up to 2 music sources
- Main calendar with up to 80 alternate day schedules
- Connect up to 8 CH1000X systems together for more capacity
Reach Everyone, Even In Noisy Environments
A series of messaging displays with audio and visual communication, including custom strobes, ensure your messages reach the right people at the right time.
Take The Burden Off Your Staff During Emergencies
Automated, pre-recorded emergency notifications keep your staff a step ahead when managing a crisis because response times and message clarity are critical.
Inform And Empower First Responders
Classroom check-ins during lockdown events highlight areas of concern for first responders on the school floor plan.
Automatically Notify External Stakeholders
Send email notifications, like lockdown alerts, to internal and external stakeholders automatically.
Multisystem Connectivity
Multisystem enables immediate emergency notification between interconnected schools and streamlines communications at scale. Empower administrators and staff to manage two-way intercom and paging in a connected district equipped with up to 8 CH1000X systems.
Communicate Effortlessly Between Schools
- View the status of connected remote systems, including real-time emergency communications
- Initiate lockdown on connected systems simultaneously
- On-the-fly live paging to common zones on connected remote systems
- Intercom classrooms on connected remote systems
- Call Admin phones on connected remote systems
- Send tones to connected remote systems
We’re Here to Support You
With Certified Partners throughout North America, we’re with you every step of the way, from selecting the right base system to applying our expertise to your particular facility and communication priorities.
With our certified partners and technical support team, you’re always in good hands.
FAQ
1. What is the CH1000X Mass Notification System and how does it improve school communication?
The CH1000X is a modern mass notification and communication platform that streamlines daily school operations. Using Spotlight’s intuitive browser-based interface, staff can manage two-way intercom, paging, tones, emergency alerts, and classroom check-ins—all from an interactive floor plan. This ensures fast, clear, and reliable communication across the entire school.
2. How does the CH1000X enhance emergency response in schools?
The CH1000X improves emergency response through automated, pre-recorded alerts, live paging, classroom check-ins, and real-time visibility on a school floor plan. Visual displays with strobes, combined with audio notifications, ensure messages reach everyone—even in noisy environments. Response times are reduced, and message clarity is significantly improved during crisis events.
3. What classroom communication features does the CH1000X provide?
The CH1000X supports two-way intercom, paging, tones, and audio-visual messaging to ensure every classroom receives timely and accessible information. Visual displays extend communication into hallways, gyms, and other loud areas, ensuring students and staff never miss an important alert or instruction.
4. Can the CH1000X integrate with third-party safety and communication systems?
Yes. The CH1000X platform scales easily and integrates with access control systems, classroom phones, video surveillance, gunshot detection, vape sensors, earthquake detection, and additional third-party technologies. With software-based, event-driven automation, schools can achieve flexible and powerful safety workflows beyond traditional GPIO integration.
5. How does multisystem connectivity work in districts with multiple schools?
Multisystem connectivity allows up to eight CH1000X systems to operate together, enabling communication between schools. Administrators can monitor real-time activity in connected schools, initiate simultaneous lockdowns, send live pages to multiple campuses, and intercom remote classrooms. This ensures unified, efficient communication across an entire district.