IPCelerate's product can integrate with RF based panic buttons. I believe it can take the button press and do a number of different things with it - pretty sure zone text display is one of them. Not sure if you are looking to buy a solution or put your own together.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Reimers</b> <<a href="mailto:tim.reimers@asheville.k12.nc.us" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tim.reimers@asheville.k12.nc.us
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">hi folks---</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">My school district wants me to find some sort of network-based 'panic button' </font>
<br><font face="Arial" size="2">that the secretary can use to quietly alert people that there's a problem in the front lobby.</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">We don't have a sophisticated enough alarm system to tie into that-- so the usual analog buttons wouldn't do much ---</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">I'd like to find some sort of IP-based button that would trigger some network events--</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Here's the part where we get into the 'not OT' bit---</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">They want a push of this button to flash up a message on several people's phone displays</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">(does anyone have some simple and complete code they'd share for pushing a message to a phone?)</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Anyone got any ideas about where one can get a pushbutton triggerable network event device?</font>
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