In the present world, mobile technology is evolving rapidly. Within the past few years, smartphones have become indispensable to people across the entire world. From children to teenagers to women and the elderly, everyone is using smartphones. Today, we can’t sit for five minutes without checking our phones to see if there are any texts or another kind of message. Smartphones are very popular among teenagers; we will say in the near future that almost every teenager will have their own smartphone, even while in school. 

 

All of these steps in mobile technologies are due in part to social media sites, college campus sites and other online education providing information on mobile phones. Almost every college is now moving towards smartphones from laptops and PCs, so that they can better track student admissions to their college. Young people are more active on mobile phones than any other information sources. 

 

Colleges are not only active to gain admissions but they are also looking towards new technologies that can help to make their campuses safer for students. As we all know, there are millions of apps available on the web that can run on iPhones, Androids and other smartphones, which provide user-friendly utilization of a host of technologies. There are very few apps however, available on the web, that can help a student on the  campus, if they are in any kind of trouble, or someone is assaulting them. You might be surprised to know that assault is a common problem that every new student has to face while attending college and they will likely be threatened by thugs and thieves.

 

To reduce these kinds of problems and to aid students, colleges are investigating Personal Safety apps like OnGuardHelp, for their campuses, that can provide instant help to send an alert when seconds count. 

If a college decides to promote these apps on their campus, it will be helpful in the following ways – 

 

These kind of alerts are initiated when a student is in trouble, sending an alert to the local campus police, the great thing about this is that not only do the campus police know you have a problem, they also see your location through GPS tracking.

 

OnGuardHelp has 911 built into the APP that always contacts the nearest 911 response center, especially useful when the student is off campus.

 

This is one of the most valued features of thisapp. With this function on the app, one tap initiates a silent call to the OnGuardHelp monitoring team where a highly trained specialist will listen to the call, then send the appropriate first responders, when seconds count.

 

OnGuardHelp personal safety app also has a pre programmable contact function to alert family, friends, roommates and anyone of the students chosing in less threatening emergencies but when they still need help, like a flat tire, car accident or other incidents, again using GPS locating to help them get aid quickly.