Atlanta, Georgia-based CENTEGIX’s mission is to innovate safety solutions that empower and protect people every day. Founded on the idea that technology can create safer, more secure environments, CENTEGIX manufactures a wide range of safety and security products, including its Safety Platform, mobile panic button, incident-activated video, visitor management, incident mapping, reunification solution, and technology integrations.
In this interview with Campus Safety, CENTEGIX Vice President of Marketing Stacy Meyer discusses her company’s specific products and solutions, such as CrisisAlert, which are designed to bolster safety and security at hospitals, schools and universities.
CS: What is the top panic alarm/mobile duress system or app from your company, and what makes it special?
Stacy Meyer: CENTEGIX CrisisAlert is a wearable mobile panic/duress button for rapid incident response. There are several aspects that make this technology unique in our space:
- One-button activation: enabling immediate, discreet activation in an emergency
- Immediate notification: with the push of a button, the safety alert instantly reaches administrators and responders, displaying a map of who needs help and where they are located. No delay, no valuable seconds lost.
- No Wi-Fi or cell signal is needed: on a private, managed network, we’ve eliminated the communication breakdowns common in solutions that depend on an organization’s Wi-Fi network or strength of cell reception.
- Total facility coverage: this solution covers every square foot of your campus no matter where you are inside or out, including stairwells, parking areas, exterior open space, your alert instantly reaches responders.
- Location accuracy: a visual mapping of where an alert was activated with precision down to an individual floor and room, so first responders know exactly where their help is needed.
- Campus-wide alerts communicate emergency information: using colored strobe lights, computer screen alerts, and intercom and mass communication integrations.
- Robust data and analytics: Access usage and alert data for actionable insight. Understand how best to support your staff in emergencies.
CS: How does it apply to healthcare facilities, schools and/or higher education security, public safety and/or emergency management?
Meyer: CrisisAlert is an ideal solution for healthcare facilities who are looking to combat the rising incidence of workplace violence against healthcare workers. CrisisAlert leverages dynamic digital mapping, real-time locating capabilities, an easy-to-use wearable duress button for healthcare workers enabling administrators and security to plan for and respond faster to emergencies.
In higher education the mapping functionality of CrisisAlert is its greatest strength. For campus security to respond effectively to an emergency, they need to know with great precision where help is needed in order to mobilize the nearest responders immediately.
CENTEGIX is the K-12 leader and largest wearable safety technology provider. With the Safety Platform, schools utilize dynamic digital mapping, real-time locating capabilities, an easy-to-use wearable panic button for school and district staff, a school visitor management system, and safe reunification capabilities.
CENTEGIX provides public safety agencies precise, real-time incident response data in emergencies to coordinate and deploy help immediately. Our technology minimizes identification, notification, and response time in emergencies. It sends crucial incident and location data directly to 911 dispatch in seconds.
CS: What other products or offerings would you like to highlight, and what are some of their qualities and benefits?
Meyer: With CrisisAlert, organizations benefit from all of the components of the CENTEGIX Safety Platform which includes digital campus maps to locate incidents and your safety assets; a visitor management solution that checks in every visitor with a comprehensive, but quick process that verifies their identity, screens their background, and puts staff at ease and finally a reunification solution that provides visibility into the status of evacuated individuals instantly.
CS: How do your company and its offerings address the needs of hospitals, schools and/or universities?
Meyer: Safety is the No. 1 influencer for nurses considering a job change. By enhancing safety with CrisisAlert, administrators can impact employee retention, productivity, and patient care. CrisisAlert empowers healthcare workers to feel safe by enabling them to plan for and respond faster to emergencies, anywhere on campus.
Safer schools are better schools. CrisisAlert was designed in response to concerns that traditional safety alert programs didn’t reflect the realities of the classroom or draw on the best technologies for moments of crisis. Every second matters during emergencies, and CrisisAlert is more efficient and reliable during times of crisis than conventional means of communication.
CS: What else is new or noteworthy about your company for 2024?
Meyer: With Safety Platform as their foundation, our integration capabilities provide organizations with the ability to layer their technologies for a comprehensive safety plan. Most recently we have partnered with Axon for incident activated location video. The partnership enables the wearable panic button badge to activate on-campus video cameras when an alert for help is signaled. By combining the immediacy and location specificity of CrisisAlert with Axon’s real-time security camera feeds, on-site and first responders can immediately gain situational awareness to determine the appropriate level of response needed for an emergency.
CS: What is your company’s overall value proposition to schools, universities and/or hospitals? Why should they do business with you?
Meyer: The mission of CENTEGIX is to innovate safety solutions to empower and protect people (every day). We believe our values of empowerment, innovation, and advocacy keep us committed to creating workplaces where all staff feel supported to get help in an emergency, from the everyday to the extreme.
CS: Is there anything else you would like to add?
Meyer: At the beginning of the summer we released our 2024 School Safety Trends Report. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of school safety incident trends observed during the 2023-2024 academic year through data collected from the CENTEGIX Safety Platform™.
As our CEO Brend Cobb says, “We’re working with hundreds of organizations across the country to improve workplace safety, and our technology continues to have a significant impact on everyday incidents and emergencies. The badges are used by staff every day to de-escalate altercations, to get life-saving devices to medical emergencies, and to provide staff with support the moment it’s needed.” centegix.com
