Centegix vs QuickSecure
Centegix and QuickSecure both help K-12 staff get help fast, but they are different kinds of product. Centegix is a panic button company: its CrisisAlert badge runs on a network of devices Centegix installs in your building. QuickSecure is one school safety system: it tells staff what to do next in an emergency, shows administrators every room as it happens, and runs the safety work in between, from drills to repair tickets, on the same map.
By QuickSecure · Last verified October 26, 2026
What is Centegix?
Centegix is a panic button company. Staff wear its CrisisAlert badge, which has one button: three clicks sends a Staff Alert for everyday help, and eight clicks sends a Campus-wide Alert that sets off strobes, intercoms and screen takeovers across the school. Responders see who pressed it and where, down to the floor and room.
To make that work, Centegix installs its own network in the building: gateways, mesh hubs, and locating beacons or strobes in rooms, hallways and entrances, so the badge works without Wi-Fi. Around the badge, Centegix sells digital maps, visitor management, family messaging and reunification, and it sells CrisisAlert to healthcare, government and workplaces as well as schools.
What is QuickSecure?
QuickSecure is one school safety platform, built entirely for pre-K through 12, and it is made of modules. Each module does its job on its own, and each one you add connects to the others, so the whole system knows more. Together they link the emergency response to the work of every other day (drills, procedures, tips, repair tickets, connected devices, cameras and safety equipment) through the same campus, staff and schedules. That is what lets QuickSecure tell staff what to do next and show administrators what is happening, live.
Centegix is built around the moment a button is pressed. QuickSecure is built around everything after it. A teacher raises an Alert from the Panic app or a physical panic button, and each staff member's phone shows the steps for that emergency and the room they're in: your lockdown checklist, then "I'm secured", or the fire assembly zone, then a roster check that flags any missing student. Administrators watch every room turn locked, unlocked or empty, Dispatch reaches 911 through RapidSOS, and police can join the Alert's thread.
Between emergencies, the same system holds the work Centegix's public pages don't describe: drill compliance reports, procedures staff confirm they've read, an anonymous tip line, repair tickets, and device monitoring that opens a ticket when a camera or panic button goes offline. There is no network of devices to install.
How do Centegix and QuickSecure compare?
| Centegix | QuickSecure | |
|---|---|---|
| Raising an alert | ||
| How staff raise one | Click the badge's single button: three times for a Staff Alert, eight times for a Campus-wide Alert. Centegix has also described desktop and mobile software for requesting help | Tap any of your school's Alert types in Panic, preset or custom, each with its own workflow, or press a physical panic button. Every Alert asks for a confirmation, the buttons you choose need a press-and-hold, and an Alert raised far from campus is refused |
| What staff carry | A wearable badge; the battery lasts a year or more | The phone they already carry (iPhone or Android). No wearable |
| What gets installed | A network of Centegix devices: at least two gateways per site, mesh hubs, and locating beacons or strobes throughout the building, with strobes in every room, hallway, common area and entrance | No wall hardware. A small on-site bridge connects the cameras and door controllers you already own; physical panic buttons are optional |
| Silent or announced | A Staff Alert goes to responders; a Campus-wide Alert sets off strobes, desktop takeovers and intercoms | Your school chooses whether an Alert goes out silently or announced |
| During the emergency | ||
| What each staff member does | Response plans are built and shared ahead of time, so staff know what to do | Gets the steps on their phone. Lockdown: a checklist, then "I'm secured." Fire: their assembly zone on a map, worked out from their schedule, then a roster check that flags any missing student |
| What administrators see | A map of who needs help and where, down to the floor and room | Every room on the floor plan turns locked, unlocked or empty as teachers check in. Who has secured, who hasn't, and a one-tap re-send to anyone who hasn't answered |
| Updates and responders | Two-way messaging keeps responders updated on the incident, location and status | One thread per Alert that police, fire and EMS can join, plus a running summary for anyone joining late |
| Reaching 911 | A Campus-wide Alert can notify 911 as an optional setting. Silent Panic and Active Assailant alerts reach dispatch screens through RapidSOS, with a RapidSOS agent calling the 911 center | Dispatch sends Fire, Medical and Lockdown Alerts to 911 through RapidSOS. Switched on for each school with two people signing off |
| Drills | ||
| Planning the year | Build, share and drill response plans | An annual planner built from your state's drill requirements, with prep briefs and NIMS-aligned roles for each drill |
| Running a drill | Response time for each drill, to the second | On the same phone flow as a real Alert, marked as a drill: fire, lockdown, weather, earthquake and AED drills, announced or unannounced |
| Proof for compliance | Not on Centegix's public pages* | Compliance reports show which required drills are done and which are still due |
| Every other day | ||
| Procedures (SOPs) | Not on Centegix's public pages* | On every staff phone, with read acknowledgments, version history and review reminders |
| Anonymous tip line | Not listed among Centegix's Safety Platform products* | A web page in the reporter's own language. Each tip is scored 0–100 for urgency; the most urgent go to staff phones as a critical alert |
| Messages | School Messaging reaches families by text, email and push | You choose who gets it (everyone, a campus, a group or one person), what kind of message it is, and how it's delivered, from a routine notice to a critical alert |
| Repair requests | Not on Centegix's public pages* | Ticketing: IT, facilities, nurse-supply and safety requests from the Panic app or Nexus, routed to the right team |
| Device monitoring | Not on Centegix's public pages* | System health: a camera offline for five minutes opens a ticket, which closes itself when the camera comes back |
| Cameras | Camera integrations pull up the right feeds during an incident | Up to four live cameras at once, picked from the floor plan. Threat detection (Beta) runs on the same cameras |
| Safety equipment | Safety Blueprint tracks inspection and expiration dates, serial numbers and photos | AEDs, extinguishers, alarms and exits as points on the floor plan, with inspection schedules emailed to the person who does them |
| Visitors | Visitu: check-in, ID, monitoring and reporting | Visitor management: kiosk sign-in |
| Setup and buying | ||
| Built for | Schools, healthcare, government buildings and workplaces | Pre-K through 12 schools only |
| Floor plans | Safety Blueprint; you own your maps and mapping data | QuickSecure draws them from your architectural drawings and updates them whenever you ask |
| Connects to | 80+ technology partners, student information systems and single sign-on | Your student information system, single sign-on, Axis, Avigilon, UniFi and RTSP cameras, Ubiquiti and Axis door control |
| How it's sold | One Safety Platform; visitor management and reunification included at no added cost | One module at a time, so you start with what you need and add the rest later |
* Checked against Centegix's public website on October 26, 2026. Centegix may offer it without describing it there; ask them, and tell us if we've missed something.
Where Centegix is the stronger fit
Your state law or district policy calls for a wearable
CrisisAlert is a badge; a phone app is not a wearable device. Check your state's wording.
You want alerting that never touches your Wi-Fi
The badge runs on Centegix's own network, with three cellular carriers for failover and at least 12 hours of backup power.
You want a strobe in every room
Wireless strobes come with every CrisisAlert install.
Where QuickSecure is the stronger fit
You want every staff member told what to do, not just alerted
Each staff member gets the steps for that emergency and their room on their own phone, and administrators watch rooms turn locked on the map.
You want drills that count
A year planned from your state's requirements, run on the real flow, written up as compliance reports, and never able to reach 911.
You want one place for the safety work between emergencies
Procedures, tips, repair tickets, device health and equipment inspections all sit on the same campus map.
You'd rather not install hardware or buy everything at once
It runs on the phones and cameras you have, and you add modules one at a time.
Questions to ask any vendor
- After a teacher presses the button, what does the system tell them to do?
- Can administrators see which rooms are locked right now?
- During a fire evacuation, how do teachers account for every student?
- What stops a drill from ever reaching 911?
- Who builds our floor plans, and who updates them when a room changes?
- What happens when Wi-Fi, cellular or building power goes down?
- What hardware gets installed, and who maintains it?
See QuickSecure with your own campus
We set up your floor plans and maps, and walk your team through an Alert and a Drill.