Here at Alerter Group, we are pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring the first ever 'Family Business of the Year' at this year's Derby Telegraph Business Awards.
The awards aim to celebrate success, recognise achievement and highlight the innovative people and companies throughout Derbyshire who are putting their region on the map by boosting the economy while making a positive contribution to the local community.
Alerter Group plc is a multi million pound, profitable, stable and expanding company with thousands of customers across the UK and Ireland.
Historically specialising in providing communication and alarm systems for Deaf and hard of hearing people, more recently our product portfolio has been expanded to provide emergency refuge communication systems for people with other disabilities as well as support personnel such as fire wardens.
Deaf Alerter is a product that was initially developed by Evets Communications Limited, a sister company in the ECL group formed in 1980, which continues to provide radio and data communications for the radio communication and broadcast industries. The company hence has a long history and significant experience in radio technology. The Deaf Alerter product is now exclusively available from Alerter Group plc and its authorised partners.
Deaf Alerter was initially developed for a school for Deaf children. The initial product was effectively just a radio paging system, using vibrating pagers.
The Deaf Alerter Night Cradle™ was introduced to provide fire alarm warning for people sleeping in their bed. This was primarily developed for hotels and university halls of residence.
Deaf Alerter system extended to provide personal and public address pre-defined messaging.
The Deaf Alerter product had become so successful that it was decided that its future growth would be best served by having a separate company focussed on the Deaf Alerter product with dedicated staff. Thus Deaf Alerter plc was born. (Evets Communications Limited continues to operate in its other business activities of radio and data communication
The Deaf Alerter DA2000 transmitter was released to be fully compliant with the significantly updated British and European Fire alarm standards - BS5839-1& EN54. It provided an enhanced battery backup, monitoring and interfacing capabilities to external systems.
VHF Radio Link transceivers launched. Provide fully monitored radio communication between disparate fire alarm systems as well as allowing separate fire alarm systems to be radio linked to Deaf Alerter transmitters.
New custom designed polycarbonate case for the Refuge Alerter outstation launched – the custom enclosure provided improved aesthetics, build quality and ease of fitting
Blue help point version of RA1000 outstation created
Winners of Business Innovation at the Family Business awards 2012
Winners of Best Family Business at the Family Business Awards 2013
Winners of Excellence in Innovation Award at Derbyshire's BEST Business Awards 2013