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Push-to-talk for teams

Reach anyone on your team in one press.

Abro turns the Android phones your staff already carry into push-to-talk radios. Press, speak, and the whole team hears you at once, with no dialling and no waiting for an answer. It works across a venue, across town or across your sites. A console in the browser lets your control room talk and listen too.

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  • No radios to buy
  • Ready in five minutes
  • Cloud or your own server
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A phone call is too slow when something is happening now.

Calling

  1. Find the number
  2. Wait for it to ring
  3. Hope they pick up
  4. Repeat for the next person

Two-way radios

  1. Buy, charge and hand out hardware
  2. Range ends at the building's edge
  3. Anyone with a scanner can listen
  4. No idea who is on, or where

Abro

  1. Hold the button and speak
  2. Everyone on the channel hears it at once
  3. Or talk to just one person
  4. Works wherever there is data

How it works

On the air in three steps.

  1. 1

    Sign up

    Fill in the form below. Your organisation, its own private voice server and your owner account are ready immediately.

  2. 2

    Add your people and channels

    In the console, add your team and make channels such as Security, Front desk, Stage or Site B. Put your logo on every screen.

  3. 3

    Install the app and talk

    Any Android phone from Android 8 up. Hold the big button, a Bluetooth headset button, or the volume key with the screen off.

What you get

Everything a team on the move needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Talk channels

A channel per team, area or site. One person talks at a time and everyone else hears it instantly. Busy channels tell you who has the floor.

Direct talk

Pick a person and talk to only them, even while their channel is busy. They answer with one press.

Control-room console

Talk and listen from a computer. See who is on the air and who is talking, monitor several channels at once, and step in when needed.

No range limit

Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G, it doesn't matter. Connect a gate, a warehouse and a head office in another city on one channel.

Made for the pocket

Talk with the volume key while the phone is locked, or through a Bluetooth headset. The app keeps running all shift and comes back on the air by itself after a restart.

You're in control

Add and remove people, set who can talk or only listen on each channel, and give supervisors priority. Turn a lost phone's account off in seconds.

Private by design

Each organisation gets its own voice server, separate from every other customer, and voice is encrypted. Nothing is recorded.

Your brand on it

Your logo and name appear in the app and the console, so your people know it's your company's system.

For the control room

See your whole operation at a glance.

The console runs in any modern browser, with nothing to install. Dispatchers see every channel, who is in it and who is talking right now. They hold the space bar to talk, listen to other channels without leaving their own, and reach any one person directly.

Deployment

Run it where it suits you.

Cloud

We run it for you. Sign up, install the app and talk. Nothing to set up or maintain.

Available

On-premise

Abro runs on your own server at your own site. Your voice and your data never leave your building, and your team keeps talking even when the internet line is down.

Available

Hybrid

A server at each site for speed and resilience, linked through the cloud so every site, and head office, can talk to each other.

Available

Questions

Do we need to buy radios or any hardware?

No. Abro runs on Android phones. Many teams use the phones people already have, or a few low-cost Android phones for shared posts. A Bluetooth headset is a nice extra but not needed.

Does it work on iPhone?

Not yet. Abro is on Android today. Your control room can use the console in any browser, on any computer.

What does it need to work?

In the cloud, a data connection: Wi-Fi or mobile data. Voice uses very little data, much less than a video call. With an on-premise server, phones on your site's Wi-Fi keep talking even when the internet is down.

Can we run it on our own server?

Yes. Choose on-premise and Abro runs entirely on a server at your site, or hybrid to link several sites through the cloud. Tell us when you sign up and we'll plan it with you.

How fast is it?

You're heard as you speak, not after a ring and an answer. On a normal mobile connection, the delay is a fraction of a second.

Is it secure? Who can hear us?

Only people in your organisation who are allowed on that channel. Every organisation has its own separate voice server, and voice travels encrypted. Abro does not record conversations.

How many people can use it?

From a handful to hundreds. Add as many people as you need in the console.