![]() Unlike BlueLight, the DPS app is intended to be more information- and awareness-based, Warren said, including a spinoff version of the map DPS provides. She said DPS has considered texting and coordinate features similar to the ones in BlueLight, but the department decided it wouldn’t be practical in a dangerous situation. As SU students started to come back from school, the number of downloads for the app has increased “pretty dramatically,” said Preet Anand, the app’s creator.ĭPS isn’t currently participating with the BlueLight app, but is developing a campus safety application of its own, said Warren. ![]() This app is in its last stages of development, and it does not yet have a name, said Hannah Warren, DPS’s public information and internal communications officer.Īlready on the market is a similar app called BlueLight, which uses GPS coordinates to track emergencies when they occur. This app will include a map, crime database of incidents that have occurred and an option to add DPS’s number to reach them in an emergency. ![]() The Department of Public Safety has begun developing an emergency messenger app to better ensure safety among the Syracuse University student body.ĭPS is developing the app with the School of Information Studies.
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