What Is Rave Guardian?
Rave Guardian extends the reach of your campus safety resources and improves their effectiveness by transforming each student, faculty, and staff phone into a personal safety device. Whenever a call is made to campus safety you’ll automatically be provided with a complete profile – including their location, medical conditions, course schedule, address, campus ID photo and other critical data. Additionally, an optional module provides students with the ability to set a timer that can be used to automatically notify campus safety in the event the student is in trouble. The result is a safer campus without an increased campus safety workload.
University Populated Data
- Student Photo ID
- Age / Gender
- School Issued Email
- Residence Hall
- Class Schedule
Guardian Profile
- Flexibility to leverage a combination of university data and student data
- University decides who enters data, and what data is permissible
- Student profile data is only accessible to campus police when that student contacts public safety in an emergency
- Rave Guardian provides peace of mind and increased security by transforming any mobile phone into a personal safety device.
Student Populated Data
- Home Address
- Home Phone Number
- Mobile Phone Number
- Medical Information
- Medications
- Allergies / Medical Conditions
- Disabilities / Disorders
- Vehicle Information
How It Works
Users opt-in online, providing Guardian with their vital safety information. The data is stored privately and securely, and can only be accessed through initiation via the users registered phone number(s). In the case of an emergency, the user profile automatically displays to the telecommunicator, providing critical care information to first responders.
Users opt-in online, providing Guardian with their vital information
- Profiles can also be created on behalf of a user
- Far richer data than currently available
A profile is established in a database hosted in secure redundant facilities
- Can be merged with institutional data
Safety profile automatically displays to telecommunicator
- Critical data displayed
- Ability to re-bid location even on dropped calls/call backs
Features & Benefits
Rave Guardian facilitates improved caller - telecommunicator communication, speeding response times and increasing positive incident outcomes. It meets student, faculty, staff, and parent demands for the ability to help protect lives and keeps campuses safe.
Benefits of Rave Guardian
- Speeds response and positive incident outcome
- Provides critical care information to operators and first responders
- Facilitates improved caller – telecommunicator communication
- Immediate ROI by reducing liability and cost of maintaining custom records or paper directories
- Supports location requests even when call is dropped or from the field (only on some carriers)
- Meets student, faculty, staff, and parent demands for the ability to provide information
- Provides students the ability to contact police via voice, and now text as well
- Easily deployed and maintained
Testimonials
"Rave Guardian gives students, faculty, and staff piece of mind. It assures that students and their parents have a direct line to campus safety, no matter where they are, and at any time of day or night. The ability to be armed with detailed student information and react quickly is critical to keeping a campus safe and maintaining our school's reputation for safety."
~ Maureen Rush - Vice President, University of Pennsylvania
"We're pleased with an overall decrease in crime since the start of the spring semester. Since January 1st 2010, crime on-campus has gone down 70 percent in comparison to last year. A reduction in crime has never occurred before!"
~ Leroy K. James - Chief of Police - Howard University
"Rave Guardian was actively embraced, campus police are big fans of it. What we really like about Rave Guardian is that it works on any cell phone and is a really easy system to use."
~ Brian Payst - Director of Information Technology - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
"The student only had to press one button to connect with Campus Police... Rave Guardian was used to get to the scene quicker... Rave Guardian was here and it helped... Does Rave Guardian work? Absolutely. Do our students feel comfortable using Guardian? Absolutely."
~ Stephen Davis - Director of Campus Safety - Maryland Institute College of Art
"It's like blanketing our entire campus and the whole DC area with a virtual campus blue light phone. Brilliant!"
~ Michael McNair - Chief of Police - American University
Campus Safety News
It was the the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in US history. In April of 2007; 33 Virginia Tech students were killed on campus. The massacre was a wake-up for campuses here and around the country. Now new technologies are keeping students safer.
Stony Brook University’s efforts to ensure the safety of its students have gone high-tech with a new cellphone application that will supplement the existing blue light phone system and police escorts and act as a direct line to campus police.
Students, faculty and staff at Stony Brook University have gained a new way to alert police of safety concerns or emergency situations.
