Beyond the Badge
Critical Features of Wearable Panic Buttons
Beyond the Badge
Critical Features of Wearable Panic Buttons
Thinking about a wearable panic button solution? If you talk to another provider, ask them these 7 questions:
- What is your experience as a wearables provider? (how many sites use your solution? How many wearables are in use today?)
- How many paying customers have installed your wearable solution?
- What is the largest school district you have implemented with your wearables?
- Are you willing to remove or make critical components optional to make the solution cheaper?
- How does your installation provide hardware redundancy, power resiliency and network redundancy?
- Do you lock-in an annual price for the term of the contract or do you have rate increases built in year over year?
- Describe how you train users and responders on the use of the badge solution? How much more will in-person training cost?
CENTEGIX CrisisAlert™ isn’t new—it’s trusted.
Deployed in thousands of schools, refined through years of real-world emergencies, and earning a 99% customer retention rate. The other badges? Brand-new imitations with no proven track record. There’s only one original. CENTEGIX.
Experience You Can Count On. A Track Record You Can Trust.
Invented the wearable panic button for schools
Founded for emergency response
Native emergency mapping
Proven to scale
Fast and easy installation
Daily usage
Published data
CENTEGIX
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
Other Wearables
⛔
⛔
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Why It Matters
CENTEGIX badges have been protecting schools since 2019. From staff adoption to ease of use, our wearable has demonstrated its superiority to app-based panic buttons—now those app makers are scrambling to offer a wearable.
EVERY. SECOND. MATTERS®. Our solution was developed in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school tragedy and built to address the need for rapid and effective emergency communication. While others have focused on other safety applications, we've continued to develop the wearable badge.
CENTEGIX was the first to display alerts on digital map of the campus and the only to highlight safety assets in proximity of the alert like AEDs, first aid kits and narcan.
From a single school to the nations largest districts, we've proven our ability to scale efficiently across urban, suburban, and rural environments.
Having completed thousands of district-wide deployments, including 4 of the 10 largest school districts in the US, we can install a standard school in a few hours and a large scale district in weeks. Our deployment model is designed to scale up without burdening IT teams or requiring infrastructure overhauls.
700,000+ people wear our badge every day. When staff use the badge to get help for everyday issues, they’re prepared to act immediately in an extreme emergency. When surveyed, 99% of badge users said it was "Easy to use." 98% said having it "helps them feel safe and supported by their district." 96% said the badge empowered them to "rapidly resolve the issue."
CENTEGIX publishes an annual report to share usage information and data trends and with insight into how and why our solution is used. Learn more about how our badges are used every day in our Annual School Safety Trends Report
Strobes
Screen Take Overs
Intercom Announcements
Long Range (LoRaWAN) Network
Provides strobes for visual notifications
Strobes light in colors aligned with your safety protocols
Intercom announcements for audio notification
Computer screen takeovers
Network redundancy
Power resilience
Hardware redundancy
Two-way messaging
100% campus coverage
Badge charging required
Incident location accuracy
Digital campus maps
Mapped safety assets
Price lock predictability
CENTEGIX
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
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Real-time floor and room-level alert location accuracy
✅
✅
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Other Wearables
Wi-Fi, Cellular, LoRaWAN
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⛔
✅
✅
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Frequency of charging has not been determined due to infancy of school use.
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Separate vendor for digital maps, additional costs.
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Why It Matters
LoRaWAN is a powerful technology—what matters is how it’s implemented. CENTEGIX provides full security, redundancy, and scalability, where others rely on third-party devices that may have firmware security risks and scalability limitations.
Wire-free strobes are an essential and integrated component of emergency notification. Flashing strobes in every room, hallway and common area, provide an immediate visual notice of the emergency. Especially helpful where intercom announcements aren’t easily heard—gyms, hallways, music rooms.
CENTEGIX strobes are programmed to align to your safety protocols. Staff and students run drills based on your schools' protocols and will know the steps to take based on the strobe's color.
Communication is the first action in emergency response. Announcements activate emergency protocols and detail the appropriate steps to get to safety
Network computers, smartboards, and signage provide guidance on your school’s Lockdown protocols.
We use all 3 national cellular carriers for failover and connectivity. Others depend on a single carrier.
Each of our devices includes a minimum of 12 hours of back up power. Others systems fail when power or internet goes down.
We install at least 2 gateways per site for redundancy. Others rely on a single gateway mounted indoors creating a single point of failure.
We unify your entire response team with two-way messaging on a real-time messaging channel. Our two-way messaging connects responders and equips them with continuous updates on what’s happening, where it's happening, and how the response is progressing.
Roughly half of emergency incidents at schools take place outside the classroom. Staff can initiate alerts from the playgrounds, athletic fields, parking lots, and other common sites for emergencies. CENTEGIX critical incident mapping shows responders exactly where help is needed.
A device that must be recharged is vulnerable to being powerless or connected to its charging device and not accessible when needed. CENTEGIX battery lasts for year+ and does not require charging.
Where other wearables can bring responders to the building, ours shows responders the alert location by floor and room, stairwell, or parking lot. Others will sacrifice location accuracy for affordability by installing fewer locating devices.
Our customers own their maps and can update them. Digital campus maps are required by several states.
When an alert is displayed so are your mapped safety assets with the distance from the alert including AEDs, stop-the-bleed kits, narcan, and fire extinguishers.
The others build in annual increases that compound over time. CENTEGIX offers a price lock for the life of your contract. Predictable budgeting with no surprises.
Visitor Management
Reunification
Safety Platform
CENTEGIX
✅ Included
✅ Included
Badges, strobes, private managed network, data dashboard, critical incident mapping, visitor management, reunification and integration capabilities.
Other Wearables
Some, additional cost
Some, additional cost
Why It Matters
CENTEGIX Visitor Management is part of our Safety Platform and the software is provided at no additional cost.
CENTEGIX Reunification is part of our Safety Platform and is provided at no additional cost.
CENTEGIX Safety Platform is the foundation for your school safety plans, with capabilities central to emergency response and the ability to integrate with your existing safety technology.
Accelerate emergency response with the CENTEGIX Safety Platform®.
Communication is the first action in emergency response. The sooner everyone on campus knows to get to safety, the better the outcome. CrisisAlert is the only solution that provides:
✅ Visual notification
✅ Audio notification
✅ Badge doesn’t rely on Wi-Fi or cell
✅ Total campus coverage
✅ Badge doesn’t require charging
✅ Room level alert location accuracy
✅ Experience and usage
Download the comparison chart to share all of the critical features of wearable panic buttons that can only be found in the CENTEGIX Safety Platform.
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