Emergency notification system utilizing digital signage and remote surveillance monitoring

An emergency notification system, comprising:

• an emergency notification server;
• a signage server;
• a plurality of digital signage displays;
• a data communications network, wherein the emergency notification server is configured to communicate with the signage server via the data communications network and wherein the emergency notification server is configured to indicate if the emergency notification system is in a non-emergency state or in an emergency state, and wherein the signage server serves different data to the plurality of digital signage displays depending on if the state of the emergency notification system is in a non-emergency state or in an emergency state;
• and
• wherein each of the plurality of digital signage displays is configured to display a uniform resource locator corresponding to a client instantiation;
• and
• wherein the emergency notification server is configured to interact with a telephone using Interactive Voice Response and/or with a specific area message encoding receiver.