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New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Over time batteries will die and the badge system will become useless unless everyone gets new badges once a semester.

Or, you know, change the battery. Which would take seconds per unit if you're doing a whole bunch of them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Which would lead to a gap in protection. It’s also not clear if the battery is easily serviced

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Mate it's a trivial problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

For a matter of seconds as someone chucks a new battery in the badge, sure.

There's not a lot of information about how the system actually works, but schools are typically quite budget conscious organisations, so I can't imagine just throwing out the badge when the battery dies would go down well.