Rave Guardian is like a mobile blue light that you control.
When you travel to a new location you call a toll free number, enter the length of time anticipated to reach your destination and leave a voice message with additional information. If the timer expires and you have not deactivated Rave Guardian, campus police receive an alert on their communications center console. Your profile and the recorded message can then be accessed by the police to obtain additional information to assist in their response. With certain carriers*, Rave Guardian can even pinpoint and map the location of the phone from the network.
Another Rave Guardian safety feature allows you to "panic call" campus police and have the same information immediately available to the police to use to respond.
Unlike older versions, Rave Guardian does not require you to have a data plan to start the Guardian timer or to send your information to campus police.
Your private data is stored securely and is available only to police and first responders when an urgent situation arises. Unless an alert is triggered, campus police can not track you via Guardian and the your information is not transmitted and is discarded from the system.
To activate Guardian on your UNC Mobile Account:
Log in using your ONYEN and ONYEN password
Click the "Guardian" tab
Follow the prompts to fill in your profile. We strongly recommend that you upload a current photo of yourself. The profile information, including your photo, is what campus police will see in the event that an alert is triggered and will be used to help police locate you.
Add the Guardian phone numbers to the speed dial on your phone for quick access
*location services are currently only available to Sprint customers, we expect to have location services for AT&T and Verizon in early November 2009.
Visit m.unc.edu on your mobile device (free and available to everyone)
