Rave Guardian Campus Safety App available to RWU students, employees

BRISTOL – Roger Williams University has made the Rave Guardian Campus Safety App available to its more than 5,700 students, faculty and staff to provide them with increased safety.
According to a press release, Rave, which is based in Framingham, Mass., said its Guardian App is the first of its kind, protecting students at more than 100 higher education institutions across the country.
“At RWU we are committed to providing our students, faculty and staff with the tools they need to make our campus as safe as possible,” Steven Melaragno, director of public safety at RWU, said in a statement. “With Rave’s Guardian App, we are giving our entire campus a very intuitive, powerful tool to increase their safety. Its reputation as the industry standard made partnering with Rave a very easy decision for our community.”
The Rave Campus Safety App is a patented application that uses Rave’s public safety-grade infrastructure and technology to transform mobile phones into personal safety devices to engage the campus community in safety and policing efforts. The app helps improve communication and the ability for officials to respond to incidents and protect the campus community by delivering critical information in real-time.
Rave Guardian allows users to form a virtual safety network of friends, roommates, family and campus safety officials. By setting and activating a “Safety Timer” session, “personal guardians” in the virtual safety network can monitor the user’s status updates and location and be notified at assigned check-in times. If the Safety Timer expires or the user initiates a panic call, the app automatically notifies campus safety resources.
The app also features an anonymous tips and multimedia messaging element which allows users to anonymously communicate with safety officials via Rave’s secure 2-way messaging system. In the event of an emergency, the Campus Safety Connect Button immediately connects a user to campus safety, automatically displaying a rich profile of the caller and their GPS location. The safety profile includes opt-in details such as residence address and medical condition information during emergency calls for a faster, more precise response.
The app, branded specifically by institution, is available to download for free in the Apple App Store for iOS devices and Google Play for devices running the Android operating system.
“The Rave Guardian App gives students and staff a direct link to campus safety, in an intuitive manner already on the device they carry with them every day,” Tom Axbey, CEO of Rave Mobile Safety, said.