Education

School bus fleet tracking, alarm notifications and student safety

College campuses and school districts rely on two-way radios for voice communications among security and maintenance teams.

TABLETmedia’s solutions add the ability to track school buses and notify of active shooter situations, severe weather, and equipment that needs attention.

TRBOaware adds wireless panic devices across the school: wearable pendants for teachers, fixed panic buttons mounted under desks, and a smartphone app — any of which triggers an instant, location-aware alert.

TRBOserver bridges satellite sites: for instance, security can call from a small school with radios on a simplex frequency to larger schools on a repeater system. Similarly, a hurricane warning can be simultaneously broadcast to all radios in all schools in the district as text messages and voice announcements. At the same time, an active shooter situation can only be sent to nearby schools.

WorkSafe adds another layer of safety and accountability — it identifies exactly which employee issued a distress call, and manages radio inventory by holding staff accountable for the devices they sign in.

And because TABLETmedia runs on the district’s own servers — on-premise, not in the cloud — student and staff data stays under your control.

Meeting Alyssa’s Law

Alyssa’s Law — named for Alyssa Alhadeff, killed in the 2018 Parkland shooting — requires public schools to install silent panic alarms that alert law enforcement directly, cutting the delay between a crisis and the police response. It is now law in more than a dozen states, including New Jersey, Florida, New York, Texas, and Tennessee, with more considering it and a federal bill introduced in Congress.

TRBOaware was built for exactly this. A teacher can raise a silent alarm three ways — a wearable pendant on a lanyard, a fixed panic button mounted under a desk or at the front office, or the smartphone app — and every one of them does the same thing the moment it is pressed:

• Reaches responders, not a phone tree. The alert hits on-site security and administrators on their radios instantly, and can pass straight through to local law enforcement and 911 — no dispatcher relay in between.
• Says where. Every alert is location-aware: it names the room or zone and drops the teacher’s last known position on a floor plan, so responders go to the right classroom instead of searching the building.
• Triggers a coordinated response. The same press can lock down the campus, announce over the PA, flash strobes, pull up the nearest cameras, and text every staff radio — one button, a whole-building reaction.
• Works when the internet doesn’t. Because it runs on the school’s own MOTOTRBO radio network on-premise, a silent alarm still gets through during an outage or a cut line — when a cloud-only panic app would go dark.

Multiple trigger types, location down to the room, and a response that runs on hardware the district already owns and controls: that is what makes TRBOaware a practical way to satisfy Alyssa’s Law, not just check a box.

Capabilities deployed in the field

A sample of what education customers have put to work with TABLETmedia:

A district radio network this important has to keep running. TRBOmonitor adds proactive, around-the-clock diagnostics that catch repeater faults, interference, and capacity problems before they become outages — essential on any multi-site or trunked network, and what makes a radio system you can genuinely call operations-critical.