Facilities & operations
Text alerts for facilities & operations
Freezer warming, generator on battery, a pump fault at 2 a.m. — EmailToTxt turns your building and equipment alert emails into texts that reach the on-call phone, no app required.
The problem
Why alerts slip through
Facilities equipment fails on its own schedule, and the cost of missing an alert is spoilage, downtime, or a flooded floor. Much of that equipment can email — refrigeration controllers, generator monitors, BAS, water and sump sensors — but email alone doesn’t wake anyone up, and the carrier text gateways that used to bridge the gap are gone.
Push apps aren’t a fit either: the person who needs the alert is often a night-shift tech, a property manager, or an answering service with no app installed. A plain SMS reaches all of them.
What you get
EmailToTxt for facilities & operations
Reaches anyone, no app
A text lands on any phone — staff, on-call, an answering service — without installing or logging into anything.
Works with legacy gear
Older controllers that only speak basic SMTP still work, including through a local relay when they can’t do modern TLS. If it emails, it texts.
Escalate to multiple phones
Send each alert to several numbers at once — technician, manager, backup — so a critical event isn’t riding on one person seeing it.
Common connections
What people in this space wire up
FAQ
Common questions
- Our controller only supports old, unauthenticated SMTP — will it work?
- Usually yes, through a local SMTP relay (a smarthost on your network): the controller sends to the relay, and the relay forwards to your EmailToTxt address over a modern, authenticated connection.
- Can one alert reach several people?
- Yes — add as many recipient numbers as you need to an endpoint, and every one of them gets the text.
Get your alerts on the right phone
Point your systems at a EmailToTxt address, add your numbers, and the emails they already send become texts.