One of the best reasons to attend a tradeshow is the opportunity to visit with attendees, and naturally our talk usually revolves around timekeeping systems, opportunities, questions and problems.
So when a school principal at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) trade show told me about a problem he was having during a remodeling project, I knew exactly how to solve it.
Buzzer clocks.
The school was remodeling many of its classrooms, and some—but not all—of the fourth-grade classes had been temporarily moved to a different wing. Those students needed to be on the same schedule as the rest of their grade, but they were too far away to hear the bells.
The school could purchase wireless buzzer clocks, hang the clocks in the temporary classrooms and the principal would enter the regular class schedule into the SiteSync IQ System Controller. The buzzer clocks receive a radio signal from the SiteSync IQ Master Controller that activates the “buzz” of the clocks hanging in the temporary classrooms. This way, all the classrooms would be synchronized to the same schedule as though they were all still in the same wing, and everyone would know when to head for the lunchroom or playground.
Buzzer clocks operate with a decibel rating of 65 at 10 feet, so they’re loud enough for the students and staff to hear, but not loud enough to startle them. These clocks correct and operate from wireless radio signals but do require 110VAC power to operate.
I asked the principal to watch a new video we produced about buzzer clocks, and promised to call him after we all returned from ISTE. I’m happy to report we’re working on a solution to the principal’s remodeling and scheduling problem!