With its campus located in Capitol Hill, Seattle University students are smack-dab in the center of city life and all that goes with it, including the possibility of becoming the victim of a crime.
Now Seattle University is going to test an alert system developed by one of its former students, according to King 5. React Mobile‘s co-founder and CEO Robb Monkman’s system uses a panic button device that is connected to a smartphone app to alert campus police, friends and anyone else in your network if you are in trouble.
We’ve reported on Monkman’s React system before, a “wearable Bluetooth safety device called the React Sidekick. The wearable pairs with React Mobile’s app and lets users send a widespread emergency email or text message just by pressing a button.”
Seattle U will start testing the device in July with about 100 students before deciding if it will expand the program. While the React Mobile app is free, the panic button device, the React Sidekick costs about $60.
Watch the King 5 report below:
