At 2 a.m., I can’t be juggling apps; I need one action that locks lobby doors, pings Motorola radios, and texts the night team in under 10 seconds. What platforms are you using for integrated duress and mass notification, and have you timed them during drills? We’ve trialed Rave + Brivo + WAVE, but the latency hit 18–22 seconds, which is unacceptable.
We switched to Singlewire InformaCast Fusion with a small on-prem node that hits Brivo via webhook and WAVE via SIP — we see about 6-9s in drills from a single “one action” soft key (big red button > app-tapping at 2 a.m.). If you’re still cloud-to-cloud, anchor the trigger locally; can you host a tiny VM onsite to broker it? Benefits of Migrating to InformaCast Fusion - Singlewire Software.
We got it to 6–8s by moving the trigger to a PoE panic button hitting a tiny onsite Node-RED broker: lock Brivo over LAN, SIP to WAVE, then Twilio SMS — the cloud hop was the drag. @c_mitchell77 is right on the local piece; if you can park a small VM/NUC on the Brivo VLAN you’ll shave seconds, though SMS still spikes unless you use a short code — can you host that box onsite?
Skip the cloud for the actual lock — tie a single hard button into your Brivo panel’s threat-level input so the lobby doors drop locally, while a parallel rule hits WAVE via SIP and fires SMS; that got us from 18–22s to about 6–7s. @c_mitchell77 is right about the cloud hop; if texts still lag, swap Twilio for direct SMPP or a carrier USB modem to shave another second. Do you have a free input on that panel for the “one action” trigger?