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Piper beacon technology helps schools offer a new and greater experience for their students and visitors while increasing student engagement and collecting valuable operational analytics. Piper helps schools easily deliver campus information, promotional offers, timely alerts, latest news, sports results, safety information, and even self-guided campus tours.

iBeacons are small, inexpensive, battery-powered Bluetooth devices that you can place anywhere around campus. They send out a signal that smartphones listen for and instantly send a notification whenever someone is nearby. And you don’t even need your own app to do this!

Piper is the established leader in iBeacon technology for all tiers of educational institutions. We’ve developed the first fully automated mobile app and website to help you connect with students, parents, faculty, staff, and visitors when they’re looking for information on campus.

Here are just a few of the many proximity-based messages you can send with Piper:

Provide information about upcoming events, sports and intramural games, bookstore offers etc.
Use unpublished “secret tweets” to unlock exclusive content just by being near a beacon.
Get sports score updates, highlight reels and player interviews.
User Generated Content: prompt social sharing or photo campaigns.
Self-guided audio/text tours showcasing departments, student life and school history.
Real time bus route and arrival notifications.
On-campus housing resident reminders.
Delayed delivery student surveys or contest voting.
Instant volunteer, club, or Greek applications to designated members.
NEW FEATURE Groups now allow you to attach multiple messages to a single beacon. Faculty and Staff can become part of a closed network and receive private information or instructions.

PIPER FOR RECRUITING

Piper helps create a unique visitation experience, something difficult to do when students visit multiple high quality schools. While on the self guided tour, users with the Piper App installed receive information about landmarks and facilities, specific department offerings and programs, offers for on-campus dining, latest news from the school newspaper, promotional YouTube videos, and opportunities to email recruitment supervisors directly for more information or to begin the application process. Piper allows for students to not only have an enhanced experience while on the tour, but the History feature means they can relive their experience at the end of the day by seeing what all they came into contact with and what they didn’t realize they missed. This gives recruitment yet another priceless opportunity to engage with prospects after they leave your campus.

PIPER SAFE CAMPUS

Piper can deploy hundreds of beacons on your campus that can be used exclusively for student safety. In the case of emergency, a user would tap the Safe Campus feature to call 911 or text the police to report suspicious behavior or safety concerns. The nearest beacon number will be listed on the screen and is shared with the authorities. Using this information, the first responders can be deployed rapidly and more accurately than with GPS systems.

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