PRIVOX or Zello on your push-to-talk radios

Both run on the same Android PoC radios and phones. PRIVOX adds sensor alarms in the same channels, a group alert that rings every phone and a browser console for the dispatcher — set up by our team around your processes.

The same radio with PRIVOX

What stays the same

If your team already talks on Zello, the everyday work does not change:

  • Push-to-talk over LTE and Wi-Fi, between sites and cities
  • Android and iPhone apps, rugged PoC radios with a hardware PTT key
  • Text, photos and voice messages next to the channel
  • A live map for the dispatcher, switched off for anyone who should not share location
  • Sign-in with a QR code, encrypted traffic
DISPATCH-1
EMERGENCYON AIR

Point by point

Zello Work
PRIVOX PTT
Sensors in the channel
No built-in sensor input. Alarms from sensors would be a custom build on the developer API.
Temperature, water, door, motion and power sensors raise alarms on the radios, phones and console.
An alarm someone accepts
No alarm workflow for sensors. Customer requests from QR Assist can be accepted.
The alarm stays open until someone accepts it and closes when the sensor is back to normal.
Waking a sleeping team
A call alert repeats every minute. With the app closed, it arrives as a push notification.
Every phone in the group rings like a call, even with the app closed. Whoever answers is on air.
SOS
Emergency alerts on Plus and Enterprise: ten seconds of audio and location to a set channel.
A separate SOS reaches the whole organisation across groups, nothing mutes it.
Dispatcher at a computer
Dispatch Hub, a desktop app. The dispatcher talks only in channels they were added to.
Console in the browser: hears every group and talks into any of them without joining.
Temporary access
Sign-in links expire; shared devices can be used by shift.
Accounts and channels carry an end date and close on their own; the history stays.
Server on your premises
Zello Enterprise Server, on the Enterprise plan, price on request.
Our cloud or your server — chosen for each customer.
Set up around your sites
Self-service on Core and Plus; implementation support on Enterprise.
Our team sets up channels, roles, sensors and alarm routes, starting with a pilot on one site.
Transcription and translation
AI transcription, translation and summaries on the Plus plan.
Live translation of the shift between languages — we add it on request.
Link to two-way radio
Zello Bridge connects channels to traditional radios through a gateway.
A bridge to DMR or TETRA — we add it on request.

What PRIVOX adds on the same radios

  • Fridge 29.4 °C
    Indoor21.4 °C
    MainsOn

    Sensors in the same channels

    A fridge, a pump room or a gate raises its alarm on the radios of the people who act on it.

  • GROUP CALLEMERGENCY
    CHARLIE-1JOINED
    DELTA-1WAKING…
    BRAVO-1RINGING

    A group alert that rings

    At night every phone in the group rings like a call. The first to answer is already on air.

  • ptt.privox.tech
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    BRAVO TEAM3 online
    GENERAL2 online

    Console in a browser

    Channels, sensors and the shift on one screen. Nothing to install on the dispatcher’s computer.

  • Fridge 2EMERGENCY+5 MINDUTY LEAD

    Rules for your sites

    Who gets which alarm, when it goes to a manager, which channel closes after the event.

Already on Zello? Keep your radios

PRIVOX installs on the same Android radios and phones. You move one site at a time.

  1. 01

    Tell us the model

    We set up its PTT, SOS and channel keys for PRIVOX.

  2. 02

    One site first

    PRIVOX goes onto the radios and phones of one site. The other sites keep working as before.

  3. 03

    Channels and sensors

    We recreate your channels and roles and connect the sensors that site needs.

  4. 04

    Decide on real shifts

    After the pilot you see how fast alarms reach people and choose for the other sites.

Try PRIVOX on the radio

The interface your team would use: hold the key, open a chat, call a colleague.

PTT
Inrico T320 — PRIVOX PTT
ptt.privox.tech/app

Questions

Can we keep our radios?

Yes. PRIVOX runs on Android PoC radios with a hardware PTT key — the same kind of radio Zello runs on. Tell us the model and we set up its keys.

Can Zello and PRIVOX work at the same time?

Yes. During the pilot one site works on PRIVOX while the other sites stay on Zello.

Where are our conversations and data?

On a PRIVOX server — in our cloud or on your premises. With your own server, voice, messages and locations stay inside your perimeter.

Which sensors can we connect?

Temperature, humidity, water leak and level, doors, motion and power — over Wi-Fi or LoRaWAN — plus alarms from controllers you already have via webhook, e-mail or MQTT.

Start with one real site

We set PRIVOX up on one of your sites — with your people, your channels and your sensors — and agree up front what a good result looks like.

or write to eugene@privox.tech
  1. A 20-minute call

    We go through your sites, shifts and the alarms that matter most.

  2. A live demo on your devices

    Phones, radios and the console — on your site or remotely.

  3. A pilot on one site

    Your shift works on PRIVOX. Together we measure how fast alarms reach people and get an answer.