Campus Radar · Personal Safety
When the panic button can’t be pressed. When “I’m walking home” is the last text. When the group splits up at the bar and someone leaves with a stranger.
Edge Orbital is building infrastructure for the human mesh — the people you already trust to notice. Campus Radar is real-time situational awareness for the corridors you actually walk: your friends, your dorm, your sisters seeing you in real time, without surveilling you the rest of the time. The seen, visible to your people, invisible to everyone else.
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
Your roommates. Your sorority sisters. Your study group. Your three closest friends. The people who would notice. You add them once. They opt in once. That’s the mesh.
Library to dorm. Bar to Uber pickup. Late shift at the bookstore to your car. The walk you do every week. Tell Tripwire when you’re leaving. It learns the corridor.
If you arrive on time, no one is bothered. If you don’t check in, your mesh gets a quiet alert — not a 911 dispatcher. The people who would notice do notice. They can call you. They can come find you. They can decide together what to do.
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. But every campus security director knows the shapes of these stories. They’re always one of three patterns.
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. If a radar had flagged that she left the expected group while moving in an unknown corridor, her sisters would have had a chance to call before 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. If a check-in timer had quietly fired at minute 18, three people who would notice would have been notified at minute 19.
“I’m walking home.” The text becomes evidence later. If a radar had been the system version of that text — not just a note, but a check-in with a deadline — the people who received it would have known when the deadline passed.
A radar wouldn’t have replaced anyone’s judgment. It would have given the people who noticed one more chance to intervene. That’s the entire pitch.
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.
Yes. We’re rolling out Campus Radar with New Orleans-area universities starting Fall 2026 — campus-life programs, residence-life, public safety, and Title IX offices along the St. Charles corridor and beyond. If you’re at a NOLA university and want to talk, contact us.
Same app, same underlying network, two doors. Tripwire Recon today is a mixed-reality game that maps the real world while you play — the gameplay is what builds the mesh density we need to make Campus Radar work. The radar features layer on top: you’re a player when you want to play, and your mesh is there when you need it.
Tripwire Recon is free on the App Store. Campus Radar features for individual students will remain free during the initial NOLA campus pilot. Institutional deployment for Dean of Students / Public Safety / Title IX offices is a separate B2B agreement — contact us for the pilot pricing sheet.
Tripwire Recon is free on the App Store. Pull your three closest people in. Tell each other when you’re walking home. Let the mesh do what your group text already does — only faster, only more reliably, only when it actually matters.