Panic Button
The panic button is a simple sliding bar you can activate from the app, a lock screen widget, or your smartwatch. Just swipe to discreetly send an alert during a critical incident, sharing your real-time location with security or emergency responders. You can select an incident type to ensure you receive the best response possible and, after sending the alert, choose to enable audio and video streaming to provide responders with details as the incident evolves.
See Something, Say Something
With the See Something, Say Something feature, you can share non-emergency safety concerns, suspicious behavior, or other issues directly with your administrators or safety response teams. You can even submit tips anonymously. Tips can include images, videos, a description of what’s happening, and your location to help make sure the issue is addressed quickly and appropriately.
Central Catholic Stay Safe
Central Catholic Stay Safe is your personal check-in tool for situations where you feel unsafe or at risk. To use it, tap the tile, choose who you want to notify and share your location with, add details about you’re activity and an estimated duration. While active, your chosen contact can see your location and track your progress. You can add time, end the timer early, or mark yourself as safe at any time. If the timer expires, your contact will be alerted that you may need assistance and will receive your last known location.
Resources and Contact Campus Safety
The bottom two tiles on the home screen provide easy access to important safety information and personnel within your organization. The Resources tile allows you to quickly find essential phone numbers, safety policies, and other valuable information, ensuring you know where to turn and who to contact for assistance. The Contact Campus Safety Welcome Desk tile directly links to the campus safety phone line. Click this tile to call security for non-emergency concerns or with any other questions you may have.
Activating a Panic Alert
The BadgeR+ offers three ways to activate it: single click for Medical Assistance, double click for a Disturbance/Suspicious Person, or press-and-hold for Weapons/Active Shooter. This means that an alert triggered by a single click will notify different individuals and send different content compared to alerts triggered by double click or press-and-hold.
Haptic Feedback
When you press the BadgeR+ panic button, you’ll feel a gentle vibration that confirms your alert has been sent successfully. This built-in features gives you peace of mind, confirming help is on the way.
Location Tracking
When you activate the BadgeR+, your location is shared with emergency responders, with up-to-floor and room number level accuracy, using your facility’s WiFi access points and BLE beacons. This information helps responders locate you quickly and deliver assistance without unnecessary delays. Location tracking stops as soon as the incident is resolved.
Rechargable Battery
BadgeR+ features a rechargeable battery that lasts about six months on a single charge, with a USB-C port for easy charging. To check the battery level, press the Battery Button and look at the three lights beside it: all three lights indicate the device is 75%-100% charged, two lights mean 50%-74%, one light means 15%-49%, a flashing light indicates below 15% and requires immediate charging, and no lights mean the battery is fully drained.
Hot Keys
Quickly send an emergency alert right from your keyboard using hotkeys set up just for your team. Once you press ALT and BACKSPACE, or OPTION and DELETE, an eight second countdown starts before the alert goes out, giving you a moment to cancel in case you trigger it by accident.
Incident Type Selection
After activating the button, select from a list of incident types so the right internal or external teams can respond quickly with the right support. From an active threat to a medical emergency and anything in between, the Computer Panic Button will ensure a quick response.
Get Critical Updates Instantly
During an emergency, you’ll receive critical alerts by text, voice call, or email with information about what’s happening and how to stay safe. Messages are sent to a select group or thousands of recipients across your entire facility within minutes, making sure everyone stays informed.
Screen Takeover Alerts
Receive urgent desktop notifications about incidents. This feature lets administrators send important messages directly to your screen so you never miss critical updates. The alert will appear as a large pop up window that can be dismissed once you have read the alert.
Are you SAFE?
During an emergency, administrators can send a prompt to all CampusShield Apps, Computer Panic Buttons, and Emergency Notification subscribers, asking, ‘Are you safe?’ You’ll be able to respond by selecting ‘Yes’ or ‘No,’ helping your safety team understand where people are safe and identify areas that may need immediate attention.
Weather Alerts
If severe weather is approaching, you may receive alerts through text, voice call, or email with important updates and instructions, such as inclement weather warnings, shelter-in-place notices, or school closures. These alerts are sent through the Emergency Notification System to help keep everyone in your facility informed and prepared to act accordingly.
