Campus Radar · Personal Safety
The library to the dorm. The walk still counts. A live iPhone game is how the map gets built. It is not Campus Radar.
The job
The category bifurcates into two exhausted poses. Both fail the people we’re trying to serve.
Press a button when something goes wrong. But by the time the threat closes, you may not be able to press anything — and the dispatcher is a stranger.
Always-on tracking that families never opted into and that a single data breach exposes. You’re found in emergencies and tracked the rest of the time.
Your network sees you before something happens, not after. Visibility itself is the safety. Trust is the network. The mesh is the people you already chose.
How it works
The design is: you add the people who would notice, once. They opt in once. That would be the mesh.
We are building a check-in for the walk you already take. Library to dorm. Bar to Uber pickup. You would tell the app when you’re leaving. It is not in the live App Store listing.
The design is a quiet alert to your people if you don’t check in — not a 911 dispatcher. That product is not shipping.
Built for the people who walk these corridors
Why now
We don’t name victims. The families have done that work, and what they ask for is action, not commercialization. These are the situations being studied. A product that does not exist yet did not change these outcomes.
The Baton Rouge case, 2023. A senior leaves a bar. She gets into a vehicle she thought was her ride. None of her friends know. None of them have a way to know — until the morning.
The library-to-dorm pattern, every campus. Someone leaves at 11pm for a 12-minute walk. The walk takes 35 minutes. By the time anyone notices, it’s 8am.
“I’m walking home.” The text becomes evidence later. The roommate check-in habit is what we are trying to make more reliable. That layer is not built yet.
We are studying these shapes so the product we build next is honest about what it can and cannot do. We do not claim a radar would have changed the outcome.
Common questions
No. Life360 is continuous family-tracking with a data-broker scandal in its history. Campus Radar is consent-first and episode-based: you arm the radar before a specific walk or night out, and your mesh only sees what you chose to share. The rest of the time, no one is tracking you. We don’t store or sell location data centrally.
Your mesh — the people you chose — gets a quiet alert with your last known corridor. They can call you. They can come find you. They can decide together what to escalate to. There is no automatic 911 dispatch. The decision stays with the humans who know you.
Yes. Tripwire’s network is designed to extend through nearby phones running the same app, so dead zones inside dorm basements, parking garages, and tunnels don’t break the radar. The more students on a campus run Tripwire, the denser the mesh becomes — and the safer everyone in it gets.
Not yet. No named New Orleans university has agreed to a Campus Radar test. If you run residence life or a student group in New Orleans and want to talk about a future test, use the contact form.
Same company, two different products. Tripwire Recon today is a mixed-reality location game. Campus Radar is the intended layer on top of that. It is not in the current App Store listing.
Tripwire Recon is free on the App Store and is a location game. Campus Radar is the intended layer on top of that. It is not in students’ hands yet. If you run residence life or a student group in New Orleans and want to talk about a future test, use the contact form.
Tripwire Recon is free on the App Store and is a location game. Campus Radar is the intended layer on top of that. It is not in students’ hands yet.