Creating a safer and more welcoming learning environment
The rising threat of gun violence in schools creates anxiety that keeps both students and staff from doing their best work. Establishing a safe and welcoming school atmosphere can improve students' performance while attracting and retaining exceptional staff. Traditional metal detector weapons screening amplifies security anxiety by creating friction and generating frequent false alarms, leading to inconvenient delays and the risk of embarrassing and possibly biased secondary searches. Evolv Express® presents a more effective and dignified solution, fostering a safer, more inclusive environment that bolsters academic achievement and staff retention.
Express Capabilities
Trusted by hundreds of schools nationwide, Evolv Express uses artificial intelligence to put the focus on weapons, not individual people or harmless items. By significantly reducing false alarms, it helps streamline the school arrival experience and alleviate stress for students and staff. The system’s unique image-aided alarms help reduce opportunities for bias by shortening and focusing on secondary searches. Express helps schools take action against gun violence while preserving the safe and welcoming learning environment that students and staff deserve.
Trusted by the Best
Layered Security Approach
Evolv Express is most effective as an integrated component of a layered security strategy that spans prevention, mitigation, response, and communications. Beyond its fundamental deterrent and detection capabilities, Evolv Express integrates with other security technologies and processes to provide timely information, accelerate response times, and provide data that supports continuous improvement. Evolv goes beyond technology by offering ongoing guidance, training, and support to help schools find the blend of people, processes, and technology that best supports their layered security strategy.
Transparency
Evolv is committed to the principle of responsible disclosure of sensitive information. Evolv discloses sensitive information only to trusted security professionals and partners who share our commitment to help make schools safer. This includes important disclosures regarding the capabilities and limitations of our technology and all other appropriate information that is relevant to each school's Threat Vulnerability & Risk Assessments (TVRA) & Risk Assessments (TVRA). We also share best practices and provide training to our school security partners that include sensitive information about how to effectively deploy our systems. For more information about our approach to transparency, see the Evolv Transparency Statement.
Learn about GiveEvolv Grants
We created GiveEvolv to donate Evolv’s state-of-the-art weapons detection at no cost to schools in need. By granting to schools, GiveEvolv will help keep students and educators in areas most affected by gun violence safe and focused on teaching and learning, as they should be.
Resources
When Everybody’s an Expert on School Safety, Who Do You Trust?
In our mission to make the world a safer place for people to gather, we believe it’s important to offer guidance when reading third party opinions on how to reduce the threat of gun violence in schools. We spoke with Kevin Eberle, EdD, retired school principal and Evolv advisor about how to evaluate a school security advisor and actionable ways that schools can reduce the threat of gun violence.
Clovis Municipal Schools Use Evolv for Threat Detection
“With gun violence on the rise nationwide, we felt we needed to take a proactive step to keep our students and staff safer,” said Loran Hill, senior director of operations for Clovis Municipal Schools. “Evolv gives us the security we need, and since it can tell the difference between threats and most of the everyday items people bring into school, our students’ routines won’t change when they come to school, keeping anxiety levels low and the focus on education.”
Weighing the Value of Evolv Express® System Integrations and Evolv Insights® for K-12 Schools
In response to school gun violence, many K-12 schools are looking at ways to bolster their security. Walkthrough and hand-held metal detectors are often cited as an option. But these legacy approaches to weapons screening are simply not a good fit for several reasons. In this whitepaper, we outline 8 ways to use security screening data from Evolv Insights® and Integrations to improve school safety.
Features & Benefits
Integrated Communications for Efficient Emergency Response
When a security incident occurs, it takes time for on-site personnel to address and resolve the situation. But the right communication to your off-site colleagues can speed that response and the resolution process. Evolv Express Request Assistance enables you to send an instant request for help — allowing you to resolve issues faster and keep guests feeling safe.
Features & Benefits
Worry Less. Provide Better Security with Situational Cameras
Bridge the gap in security safety and identify ever-expanding threats to your venue with Evolv Technology. With Evolv Express, you can integrate available security cameras directly and securely into your security operations center (SOC), video management system (VMS) or other AI video analytics platform for additional eyes on your entrances.
Four Key Takeaways
Screens up to 1,000 students in 15 minutes — 10X faster than metal detectors.
With image-aided alarms, a digital image shows where the potential threat is on the student or their backpack.
With its free-flow nature, it respects the privacy of students and fits into your key entry points.
With 10X the flow of metal detectors, far fewer systems and staff are needed.
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Evolv Insights® Analytics
Evolv Insights® is the powerful analytics engine that provides school resources officers, security personnel and administrators with a single, easy to use, self-service dashboard to view, review, analyze and gather insights from their Evolv Express systems.
Evolv Cortex AI® Platform
Unlike traditional metal detectors, Evolv Express is powered by the Evolv Cortex AI® software platform which enables the system to spot threats while ignoring harmless personal items. Real-time image-aided alarms show security personnel precisely where the potential threat is.
Evolv Express® Integrations
Integrating into your security environment extends communications from vital venue entrances, placing the power of screening in the hands of your security officers to close system gaps and react quickly to threats, which is key to shortening response time and improving overall situational awareness.