Features of the MySentinel school safety system
Four flows. One thoughtful platform.
MySentinel splits the day into the four people involved — officer at the gate, admin in the office, guardian on their phone, operator behind the scenes — and designs each screen for how that person actually works.
At the gate
One tap, and the gate is handled
Tap a badge to check a learner in or out — MySentinel works out which it is, with a one-tap correction when you need it. This is the screen the officer uses hundreds of times a morning, so it is calm, big-buttoned, and keeps working when the signal does not.
- Buttons sized to be hit reliably with a thumb, first time, on any phone.
- If the signal drops, scans keep working and send themselves the moment it returns.
- Per-school branding so officers see their own school identity.
- Three South African languages — English, Afrikaans, isiZulu.
In the office
The whole school day on one screen
Everything the office needs in one place, built for the realities of South African school administration — small teams, high stakes, and very little time.
- Check-in/out history with filtering by class, guardian, or date range.
- Import your whole roll from a spreadsheet, checked for problems before anything is saved.
- Incident notes, and the delivery record of every message sent to guardians, kept with the record.
- Exception workflows for pickup requests and guardian changes that need a second pair of eyes before they're approved.
For families
The school's message goes out first
Notifications go out on the events that matter — a check-in, a check-out, an emergency. Web push, branded email, WhatsApp and SMS all carry them, every one inside the school's fee: WhatsApp sends from MySentinel's own business account, so there is no Meta account for the school to open, and SMS is the built-in last resort for the rare family no other channel can carry a message to — no provider for the school to arrange, no message bill to pay. Guardians get school-managed updates in a consistent voice and language.
- Each guardian chooses how they hear about each child — app alert, email, WhatsApp, or SMS.
- Branded, per-school templates respect the school's tone of voice.
- A record of every message the school sent, so the office can show a guardian exactly what went out, when, and on which channel.
Behind the scenes
Someone is watching, so you do not have to
Behind every school is a support team. MySentinel gives them their own screens — how every school is doing, a full record of who did what, and anything that needs attention — so a problem can be found and fixed without anyone going near your school's data.
- A live view of how every school is running.
- A searchable record of every action, filtered by who took it.
- Any check-in that failed to send is listed on its own, with one-tap retry — nothing is silently lost.
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