Safety planning is a critical responsibility for district and school leaders across the nation. Administrators and staff develop school safety plans and undergo training to foster a culture of safety, where students and staff can feel secure and achieve academic and career success. To create this culture—and to meet federal, state, and local safety standards—schools need comprehensive, all-in-one school safety solutions. CENTEGIX Safety Platform that goes beyond badge alerts, combining digital mapping, visitor management, and a complete emergency response solution to deliver unmatched reliability and real, system-wide value.

Integrated school safety solutions that include an emergency alert system, critical incident mapping, and visitor management capabilities, and which integrate into a school’s existing safety infrastructure and school information systems, are cost-effective investments. When purchased separately, the costs of these safety components quickly add up, and districts run the risk of purchasing solutions that are incompatible with existing hardware and software. The CENTEGIX Safety Platform® is an all-in-one school safety solution that maximizes integrations with your school’s traditional and future safety measures to increase return on investment. 

All-in-One Solutions are the Most Cost-Effective

CENTEGIX bridges the gap between physical and digital safety. When a staff member requests help via their CrisisAlert badge, everyone on campus is immediately made aware of an incident. This empowers everyone to follow safety protocols and get to safety. The Safety Platform also provides responders with real-time insight into who initiated the alert, their location, and which safety assets are nearby. This level of precision and immediacy is worth the investment.

Campus-wide alerts also grant and A safety platform should offer multiple functionalities:

• Critical incident mapping
• Emergency alert system
• Visitor management
• Student information system integration
• Interoperability

According to school safety experts, districts should take a long-term, holistic approach to school safety planning. Ideally, schools implement unified systems in which visitor management software, video software, communications, and other safety systems communicate in a way that school administrators can understand, utilize, and afford. Without a unified system in place, schools may make reactive purchases in disparate technologies that, when implemented, don’t work together effectively and leave safety gaps. 

Every new safety investment a school makes should be able to integrate with its existing safety infrastructure. The interoperability of all components is critical. Unlike app-based solutions that stitch together multiple tools, the CENTEGIX Safety Platform is a unified safety network. CrisisAlert and Safety Blueprint were designed to work together to provide fast, seamless communication.

The CENTEGIX Safety Platform®: Designed to Meet Districts’ Needs

The CENTEGIX Safety Platform is designed to implement each school’s specific safety plans. It includes customizable strobes, intercom takeovers, and desktop takeovers. These components instantly notify everyone on campus when an emergency occurs, and communicate the appropriate protocols to initiate. CENTEGIX technology facilitates instant notification and clear communication in every emergency, from the everyday to the extreme. 

CENTEGIX’s CrisisAlert app enhances response coordination. Alerts, strobes, and notifications activate immediately through a dedicated network, providing full coverage even if phones or Wi-Fi fail. The app gives responders additional intelligence, including digital campus maps, safety asset locations, and incident details. These tools make responses smarter and faster.

An all-in-one safety platform generates valuable usage data. All components of a school safety platform are purpose-built to create and make available a variety of data. This data is helpful for various essential elements of safety planning, including conducting in-house safety assessments, pinpointing safety incident times and locations, providing compelling statistics for grant funding, and informing site-specific safety protocols. Robust usage data provides a meaningful return on schools’ investment. 

An All-in-one Platform Saves Time and Labor

An all-in-one safety platform streamlines the process of vetting and implementing school safety systems. By purchasing an integrated system, schools simplify the procurement process by eliminating the need to pursue multiple vendors and evaluate multiple systems. This saves administrators and school leaders valuable time and labor. 

In addition, when schools invest in an all-in-one solution, school administrators and staff spend their valuable time training on a single platform. Instead of spending their time attending multiple training sessions for multiple school safety systems, teachers and staff can spend more time teaching and supporting students.

School leaders and staff are the experts in their schools’ safety infrastructure. An all-in-one solution that integrates effectively with existing safety technologies extends this expertise. Rather than scrapping an existing system, administrators can integrate their school’s technology into an all-in-one platform that utilizes and expands its functionality. The CENTEGIX Safety Platform is a comprehensive solution with a high return on investment: it reduces response times, protects people, and streamlines data collection for schools’ safety planning and grant applications.

The Value of a Proven School Safety Solution 

The CENTEGIX® Safety Platform is a proven, all-in-one school safety solution. Districts nationwide have extended their safety planning investments by implementing the Safety Platform. CENTEGIX has the data to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Safety Platform in schools throughout the US. 

Annual CENTEGIX Safety Platform usage data demonstrates the platform’s value and highlights critical safety trends. The CENTEGIX 2025 School Safety Trends Report offers transparency into the functionality and effectiveness of safety technology, as well as the school safety trends observed in schools across the US. 

Customer Testimonial: CENTEGIX Safety Platform’s High ROI

CENTEGIX deeply understands schools’ safety needs. The CENTEGIX team has worked closely with school districts and leadership teams to make its platform practical, intuitive, and effective. School leaders trust CENTEGIX to help create a culture of safety in their schools.

Dr. Michael Triplett, Superintendent of Normandy Schools Collaborative in Missouri, asserts that the integrated functionality of the Safety Platform complements school safety planning to positively impact student behavior. According to Dr. Triplett, “What we do, the protocols we use, our CrisisAlert system—and all of those things combined—lend to our ability to head things off before they escalate and become situations where they’re unmanageable.” 

In Normandy Schools, the Safety Platform dashboard analytics informed weekly disciplinary meetings and guided real-time decisions in areas such as classroom management. Safety Platform components granted school leaders insight into incident times, locations, and conditions. Using this data, school leaders adjusted staffing in hallways, refined safety protocols, and provided strategic training to de-escalate behavioral incidents. Dr. Triplett credits the Safety Platform’s alert data with giving insight into where and when these interventions were most needed. The result: a drastic decrease in out-of-school suspensions. Normandy Schools reduced out-of-school suspensions by 81%.

CENTEGIX: All-in-one Solutions for Cost-Effective School Safety

CENTEGIX Safety Platform is the center of a multilayered school safety plan that delivers more reliability, immediacy, and value than less costly school safety solutions. The CENTEGIX Safety Platform is the center of a multilayered school safety plan. The Safety Platform includes:

CrisisAlert™

CENTEGIX CrisisAlert™ is a wearable panic button badge that enables teachers and staff to quickly and discreetly request help in all types of emergencies. Time is the most critical factor in an emergency, and CrisisAlert reduces response time by instantly providing responders with precise alert location information. CrisisAlert’s key features include:

• Immediate, customizable, campus-wide notifications
• Colored visual strobes to minimize confusion and communicate specific safety protocols
• Reliable, dedicated LoRaWAN and Bluetooth networks that do not depend on Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity
• Customizable alerts, both for campus-wide notifications and to request support in everyday emergencies, including illness, injury, elopement, or behavioral interventions.

Safety Blueprint®

Safety Blueprint® is an intelligent response mapping solution to help schools optimize incident response, safety planning, and asset management. With Safety Blueprint, administrators can:

• See CrisisAlert alert locations in real time on the Safety Blueprint digital map
• Update maps as needed
• Include safety assets required by responders to reduce response times and improve outcomes (AEDs, first aid kits, fire extinguishers, and other safety equipment)
• View real-time video feeds of ongoing incidents using location-aware video.
• Grant direct Safety Platform access to first responders and law enforcement
• Gather usage data to inform policies that reduce behavior and safety incidents and reduce emergency response times

Visitor Management

The Visitor Management component of the CENTEGIX Safety Platform empowers school leaders to authenticate, manage, and locate visitors on campus. The Safety Platform grants peace of mind to staff, students, and parents by verifying and registering all visitors using customizable lists.

Visitors can check in quickly and conveniently with a QR code on their smartphone, removing friction from the check-in process. Self-service kiosks empower guests to check themselves in at any school entry point. Once checked in, school guests receive a secure, scannable digital visitor pass. Administrators can analyze Visitor Management usage data to generate insight into campus safety protocols, understand visitor trends, and monitor and audit contractors and vendors on campus. With CENTEGIX Enhanced Visitor Management, schools can supply visitors with a CENTEGIX badge that features built-in real-time locating. This empowers designated administrators to assign and locate volunteers, contractors, parents, and guests in real time using a live facility map. 

All CENTEGIX Safety Platform components are purpose-built to work together to provide precise intelligence and an unparalleled depth of protection for schools. Request a demo today to learn how the cost-effective, all-in-one CENTEGIX Safety Platform can help create a culture of safety for your school.