Campus safety, finally rebuilt for real student life.
ByStander gives colleges and universities a real-time safety system designed for how students actually move — across campus, off campus, late at night, on study abroad, and through the moments that matter most. Live audio, video, and GPS to the people students already trust.
Why most campus safety stops at the property line.
The systems your campus has today were built for a campus — not for the way students actually live, study, and move around the world.
Blue lights only work where they exist
Emergency phones and campus dispatch radios stop at the parking-lot edge. Most reported student safety incidents happen at apartments, walking routes, and off-campus events — places your existing infrastructure can't reach.
Panic-button apps are just a panic button
The first generation of campus safety apps notify a dispatcher and stop. No live video, no continuous location, no trained advocate staying on the line, no support for students who'd rather not loop in police.
Title IX, mental health, and crisis response live in silos
Campus safety, the Title IX office, the counseling center, and student affairs each have their own intake. Students often don't know which door to knock on — and many never knock at all.
Built for the way students actually live.
One platform that follows your students everywhere they go — with the response model your community trusts, not the one a vendor decides for you.
Real-time GPS & live video
Trusted contacts and ByStander advocates see live location, audio, and video the second a student triggers an incident — not a stale ping after the fact.
Cloud-recorded evidence
Every incident is recorded, encrypted, and time-stamped to the cloud. Recordings are retained for 90 days unless the student saves them. Memory shouldn't decide what happened.
Trained advocates, on demand
Vetted advocates are matched during an incident based on the student's plan — peer-trained on standard plans, professionally trained on higher tiers. Students choose who they reach.
Coverage anywhere with signal
Off-campus housing, late-night walks, internships, study abroad, athletic travel. ByStander works wherever a student has cellular or Wi-Fi.
Pulse & CheckPoint timers
Pulse auto-triggers an incident if a student doesn't check in within a set window — perfect for late walks home. CheckPoint runs scheduled, recurring safety check-ins.
Wearable health alerts
Apple Watch and Samsung Health integration: fall detection, abnormal heart rate or blood-oxygen alerts can auto-trigger an incident before the student even reaches for the phone.
From freshman move-in
to commencement — and beyond.
ByStander supports every population your campus serves, in every situation that matters.
Late library hours, walks home, off-campus housing, parties, transit stops.
Solo lab work, late-night research, field studies, off-hours building access.
International programs, conference travel, athletic away games, internships.
Lone workers, late shifts, building inspectors, parking-and-transit staff.
Confidential support during outreach, in the field, at off-campus meetings, or when accompanying a student.
Early practices, road trips, tournament travel, post-event walks to housing.
An add-on layer for the systems you already run.
ByStander brings the live-response layer that blue-light phones, mass-notification systems, and dispatch radios were never built to provide — live audio, video, GPS, and a trained advocate on the line.
We don't replace your existing campus safety stack, and today we don't deeply integrate with it either. Most universities run us alongside what they have, while we keep building toward the deeper integrations on the right.
- Live audio, video, and GPS from the moment an incident starts
- Cloud recording with 90-day retention by default; encrypted in transit and at rest
- Push and SMS alerts to a student's chosen contacts and advocates
- Auto-trigger via Pulse and CheckPoint — missed check-in escalates without the student needing to act
- Wearable detection — Apple Watch falls, abnormal vitals can launch an incident automatically
Campus integration roadmap
Active development. We're partnering with early universities to design these — if your team has specific needs, we'd love to build with you.
- Campus SSO (SAML / Shibboleth)Coming soon
- Title IX intake routingComing soon
- Mass-notification integrationComing soon
- CSO dispatch webhooksComing soon
- SIS roster syncComing soon
- White-label campus appAvailable
Pricing tailored to how your campus actually budgets.
We're early-stage and pricing is custom while we work with our first cohort of campus partners. Common structures we've discussed with universities:
- Group licensing — per-seat institutional rate paid centrally, scaling with enrollment
- Sponsored access — campus covers a subset (residential life, athletics, study-abroad cohort) as a pilot
- White-label — your branding, your domain, your relationship with students (offered today through our partner program)
- Funding paths we help campus partners explore — safety, wellness, or student-fee budgets; federal Title IX / VAWA / Clery grant programs (we assist with documentation, but we don't guarantee award qualification)
Let's see if your campus is a fit.
Tell us about your university and the populations you're trying to protect. We'll set up a 30-minute walkthrough with your safety, Title IX, and student affairs leads — no commitment.
- Most universities hear back within 3 business days
- Pilots available for one department before full rollout
- Demos can include your Title IX coordinator and CSO leadership
- Procurement docs (MSAs, BAAs, security questionnaires) on request
Campus inquiry
Tell us about your institution. We'll be in touch within 3 business days.
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