The university’s security team shares how they’ve moved from an outdated, fragmented system to a streamlined, real-time solution that has significantly improved incident response and engagement with the university community.
With teaching and research facilities spread across nine locations in London and beyond, Imperial is home to more than 25,000 students and staff around the world. A solution was sought to help mitigate these risks and send targeted alerts to specific groups defined by location and user type.
Because SafeZone is a cloud-based, scalable solution, it can be quickly and easily deployed in days vs. weeks. In the case of this leading institution, the customer was operational within 24 hours, which helped ease the stress of the public safety team.
The SafeZone technology makes it easy for officers to communicate with individual users directly and silently if needed – and lets Texas A&M University-San Antonio Police Department share information, alerts and warnings with other individuals and groups in specific locations across the campus.
University of York was one of the first UK universities to recogniZe SafeZone’s potential to bring existing security and other services together onto one simple platform. The app is now used widely by the university community and accepted as part of everyday life.