Defywire's Mobile Guardian System Deployed at DC's McKinley Technology High School.HERNDON, Va. -- Tech Magnet School magnet school n. A public school offering a specialized curriculum, often with high academic standards, to a student body representing a cross section of the community. Personnel Utilize Mobile Devices to Access and Log Students' Disciplinary Information, Attendance Records, Class Schedules, Medical Information, and Parental Contact Information Defywire, Inc., the wireless middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a and mobile application provider, announced that McKinley Technology High School McKinley Technology High School [1] is a public city-wide 9-12th grade high school in the District of Columbia Public Schools in Washington, D.C.. The school was originally an off shoot of Central High School (now Cardozo Senior High School), was called McKinley Technical , the technology magnet school for the District of Columbia Public Schools
"Prior to deploying Defywire's Mobile Guardian, we were only able to access student information on desktop systems, which isn't helpful to school personnel that are monitoring school grounds," explained Daniel Gohl, principal of McKinley Technology High School. "Now we have an application that roams wherever our personnel and students are. This has greatly enhanced our ability to secure the school and significantly cuts down staff hours spent completing paperwork associated with disciplinary incidents." Defywire's Mobile Guardian implementation spanned less than two weeks, and required minimal training for the school's administrative staff. Positive results were immediately realized by the high school, which found that the disciplinary incident reporting application eliminated an average of two hours of paperwork per day, freeing up administrative personnel to stay in the field. The real-time nature of the incident reporting application also created accurate, uniform and instantaneous documentation of incidents, which has become extremely critical for complying with federal No Child Left Behind guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. . "Students are better protected when school personnel and parents are better informed," said Jill Stelfox, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Defywire, Inc. "Mobile Guardian gives school personnel the ability to securely and immediately access critical information about a student's schedule, medical requirements, attendance, and disciplinary issues, wherever that information is needed most." Mobile Guardian even gives schools the ability to automatically alert a parent with an SMS-enabled phone when their child is not in class, although that service is not yet being deployed at McKinley Technology High School. Ultimately, the system's ability to keep school personnel and parents better informed, makes for a safer educational environment. Mobile applications from Defywire go beyond synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. , pushing the transfer of information both to and from central information systems in real time. Defywire's mobile Java-based software works with any wireless device--including phones, PDAs or laptops--and any technology--including cellular, Wi-Fi, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. and GPS. McKinley Technology High School opened in 2004 and offers a learning environment that is digitally enhanced to support academic achievement. Teachers and students engage in project based curriculum that has the rigor rigor /rig·or/ (rig´er) [L.] chill; rigidity. rigor mor´tis the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers. of a first class liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. education and the job skills development of a technical program. McKinley Technology High School provides students the opportunity to pursue an intense focus in bio/medical technology, information technology, and/or broadcast technology . McKinley Technology High School is a public school of the District of Columbia Public Schools in the City of Washington, DC. About DEFYWIRE Defywire is a leading wireless and mobile solution provider. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Defywire Mobility Suite, and vertical applications extend the enterprise by providing mobile employees with secure, real-time access to corporate information systems. Headquartered in Herndon, VA, Defywire is led by a seasoned management team with in-depth knowledge of wireless offerings. For more information, visit www.defywire.com. |
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