OnScene Technologies

OnScene Technologies OnScene Technologies builds real-time, multi-agency emergency communication tools that close the gap between an emergency and the people it affects.

Share911 (US) and Share999 (UK) deliver one report to everyone who needs it — on site and responding.

Over the weekend we rolled our an array of updates to Share911. The most significant updates involves Liveview, our real...
10/05/2026

Over the weekend we rolled our an array of updates to Share911. The most significant updates involves Liveview, our real-time dashboard for everyone involved in an incident.

Liveview serves many purposes, the first being the display of the last known location of a threat or danger such as a fire or smoke condition. This enables occupants to determine their proximity to the danger while providing on-site security and arriving law enforcement with way finding and navigation.

Reports of injured persons and the nature of their injury are directly adjacent, enabling prioritization to locate and treat the most critical victims first.

In addition to the last known location of danger, trapped or injured persons, Liveview displays unaccounted for students, now with a photo, employees and how many visitors are currently onsite.

Below that, everyone can see who is secure in the building, who has evacuated and to what muster point and who is offsite.

The Week on Share911 — Sept 14–18200 events across 73 organizations, 165 buildings, and roughly 10 states. 179 were dril...
09/19/2026

The Week on Share911 — Sept 14–18

200 events across 73 organizations, 165 buildings, and roughly 10 states. 179 were drills. 21 were real.

The drill mix. September is fire-drill month: half of this week's drills were evacuations, a third were lockdowns, and the rest were shelter-in-place, hold, safety-check and medical drills. The median drill ran 6 minutes from alert to all-clear. The busiest hour of the week was 9–10 a.m., with a second wave right after lunch.

Real alerts this week (details blinded):

→ A New Jersey high school went into a live lockdown at the start of the school day. A security officer raised it; the safety director cleared it about 35 minutes later.

→ A California elementary school evacuated on a real fire alarm — "Fire alarm activated," sent from the front office — and stood outside for 23 minutes.

→ A middle school in New England ran a 90-minute live safety check that became an early dismissal, with staff using the platform to coordinate grade-by-grade release, bus changes and canceled activities in real time.

→ Two medical Code Blues in school gyms, both resolved in under 15 minutes.

→ A two-building charter school restricted movement through a shared lobby for half an hour, on both campuses at once.

Pattern of the week: it's not always the principal. Roughly half of the 21 live alerts were raised by someone other than a building administrator — a teacher, a substitute, a custodian, an office manager, a security officer, a nurse. That's the whole point of putting the button in everyone's hands. The person closest to the problem is rarely the person with the title.

One thing to steal: several districts ran drills in two or three buildings on the same morning from one dashboard. If your drill calendar still lives building-by-building, try clustering them. The after-action comparison across schools becomes almost free.

Numbers are platform-wide activity for the week. Organizations and individuals are not identified.

Saturday at Governor's Square Mall in Tallahassee, a 15-year-old fired at a car in the Dillard's garage. Inside the 1,03...
09/07/2026

Saturday at Governor's Square Mall in Tallahassee, a 15-year-old fired at a car in the Dillard's garage.

Inside the 1,032,342 sq ft mall, shoppers heard screaming and ran; two sisters hid in a bathroom stall because a stranger let them in; staff at American Eagle and Spirit Halloween locked themselves in dressing rooms until police evacuated them. 116 stores and spaces, store by store, on two floors.

None of those people were likely enrolled in the malls emergency notification system if they have one (there may only be a PA). On a Saturday at a mall, nobody is, except perhaps the people who manage or work in the stores, restaurants and entertainment venues.

That's what Share911 Instant is for. A simple sign in the place you end up — the stall door, the dressing room, the stockroom — with one QR code. Scan it, enter your name and mobile, and you're instantly receiving updates from incident command. Add where you are and how many are with you, and the entry team knows which stores and rooms are occupied before they open a single door.

In situations like this, people are often left hiding in the dark. Put the Share911 Instant code where they are so they can know what's happening, as it's happening.

09/04/2026

“𝙋𝙤𝙥 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙯, 𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙩. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙖 𝙗𝙤𝙢𝙗 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙗𝙪𝙨. 𝙊𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙚𝙨 50 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙢𝙗 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙. 𝙄𝙛 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙬 50, 𝙞𝙩 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙪𝙥. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤?” - LAPD Officer Jack Traven, played by Keanu Reeves in the movie Speed, faces this exact test and is forced to make decisions in real-time about how to mitigate the situation.

Yesterday, when the power went out in his elementary school the middle of the school day, an Arizona Principal and his district leadership team faced their own "what do you do?" challenge. With 100 staff and nearly 700 K-5 students in the dark, normal network and communication systems unavailable, the building-wide air conditioning off and an outdoor temperature of 100 degrees, the Principal turned to Share911's Messaging feature on his mobile device to communicate and keep everyone informed from start to finish - and they did an outstanding job!

First day/week of school for New Jersey Share911 customers! We've seen plenty of trainings and drills occurring over the...
09/01/2026

First day/week of school for New Jersey Share911 customers! We've seen plenty of trainings and drills occurring over the past two weeks during orientation and back to school staff meetings! Great job everyone!

Today is the first day of school across the Bay Area.Every dot on this map is a school where, starting this morning, a t...
08/17/2026

Today is the first day of school across the Bay Area.

Every dot on this map is a school where, starting this morning, a teacher who sees something can reach every other adult on campus in one tap — and get an answer back.

66 of them. From Archie Williams in San Anselmo down to Mid-Peninsula in Menlo Park, across the island in Alameda, up into the Oakland hills, and 34 of them inside Hayward Unified alone.

Some of these schools have been doing this a long time. St. Joseph Notre Dame in Alameda turned Share911 on in November 2013 — thirteen school years ago. Hayward Unified followed in July 2014 and has never turned it off.

None of them bought it hoping to use it. That is the whole point. The value of knowing exactly who is on campus, who is accounted for, and who still needs to be found is that it is already running on an ordinary Monday in August — long before anything happens.

To every principal, secretary, custodian, aide, bus driver and teacher who walked back through those doors today: have a great year. We are glad to be on the roster.

— OnScene Technologies · Share911

About 10,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur in workplaces across the United States each year. This accounts for roughly 13...
08/16/2026

About 10,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur in workplaces across the United States each year. This accounts for roughly 13% of all workplace fatalities, making it one of the leading medical emergencies in occupational settings.

Medical emergencies are the most common events that occur on Share911. And some of them, are very time critical, such as a cardiac arrest. That's when you discover that Carol in Payroll is volunteer on her local ambulance corps. and is CPR/AED trained...and comes to help because she received a Share911 Medical Emergency alert on her desktop and mobile devices.

On Thursday morning at 8:30, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake hit the Hayward Fault, four kilometers north of San Leandro.Nobo...
08/14/2026

On Thursday morning at 8:30, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake hit the Hayward Fault, four kilometers north of San Leandro.

Nobody was hurt. Nothing was damaged. About 7,200 people told USGS they felt it. Two aftershocks followed within the hour.

Within minutes, schools along that stretch of fault were running Share911 — moving occupants out, accounting for everyone, closing every channel with All Clear. Nobody scheduled that drill.

Here is what makes this morning worth studying rather than celebrating.

These schools are between school years. Classes across the East Bay resume next week. This morning those buildings held staff, not students.

Now run the same quake seven days later.

California law says no high school may start before 8:30 a.m. So on a school day, 8:30 is not a quiet moment in a quiet building. It is the bell. Buses unloading, hallways full, attendance not yet taken — thousands of kids in the one place a roster cannot find them.

We have fifty locations along this stretch of the Hayward Fault. The closest sits half a mile from this morning's epicenter. On a school day they hold roughly 30,000 students and staff, with another 35,000 parents and guardians who start driving toward those campuses within minutes.

And under California Government Code 3100, every public school employee is a disaster service worker. They do not leave. They stay with the kids until a district official releases them.

So the obligation is not only to warn people. It is to answer three questions fast — who is on site, who is accounted for, and who has been released — and to be able to show it afterward.

That is the job we built Share911 for: it reaches everyone on site at once and turns the alert into a two-way roll call, so "is everyone out?" gets answered in seconds, by the people standing in the parking lot.

USGS models a magnitude 7.0 on this same fault: 52 miles of rupture, 800 deaths, 18,000 injuries.

This morning was the rehearsal, with an almost empty house.

Next week the house is full.

A week ago I wrote about how the campus alert at Old Dominion went out after the attack was already over.Here's the part...
08/03/2026

A week ago I wrote about how the campus alert at Old Dominion went out after the attack was already over.

Here's the part that should worry every safety director reading this: the delay wasn't in deciding to alert.

The police chief ordered the alert at 10:44:08. It reached campus at 10:48:25.

Four minutes and seventeen seconds — after the call was made, by a chief standing feet from the scene, with six delivery channels already paid for and configured.

Cooley found why. ODU let multiple people across multiple departments authorize emergency notifications, which "created some misalignment regarding who was responsible for sending emergency alerts and the content of those alerts." So the order went out, and then people had to work out who owned it, and what it should say, and who would type it.

Most organizations I talk to have this exact structure and don't know it. They've bought a system, tested the sirens twice a year, and never once measured the interval between someone deciding to warn people and people actually being warned. That interval is the only number that matters, and almost nobody knows theirs.

Every second in that gap is spent on a question — who sends this? — that should have been answered years earlier, in writing, when nobody was under stress.

That's why Share911 puts reporting in the hands of the person who sees it. No approval chain between the emergency and the alert: one report, and everyone on site and every responding agency gets it at the same moment. The decision and the message are the same action.

If you run safety somewhere, here's a free exercise for Monday: find out what your number is. Not your vendor's SLA. Yours — from "we need to tell people" to a phone buzzing in someone's pocket.

A fire tore through Awel Y Mor Primary School in Port Talbot last week. Four fire stations, breathing apparatus, a turnt...
08/03/2026

A fire tore through Awel Y Mor Primary School in Port Talbot last week. Four fire stations, breathing apparatus, a turntable ladder, black smoke pouring from the windows. Crews weren't clear of the scene until nearly 1pm.

Everyone got out. Staff running the Lots of Tots holiday club evacuated dozens of toddlers calmly and safely, and they deserve every bit of the praise they've had.

But I keep thinking about the mental model this breaks.

Most people don't worry about fires in schools, because most fires in schools are small and contained. Alarm sounds, everyone walks to the field, back inside in twenty minutes. That's the version the plan is built around.

This wasn't that version. Flames through the windows, scaffolding on the building, and a room full of two-year-olds — during the holidays, when the children in the building aren't on your normal roster and half the adults aren't your normal staff.

When a fire stops being routine, the questions change. Not "did the alarm sound." It did. The questions become: where is the fire relative to where I am, and which way do I move? Is everyone out? If someone isn't, where are they, and are they hurt?

An alarm can't answer any of that. It's one bell, one message, and it only speaks in one direction. Zone-aware, two-way alerting sends the fire's location to the people near it and lets anyone report back that they're out, or that they're not. That's the job we built Share999 for.

That gap — the people inside who can't see what you can see, and the ones you can't see at all — is what we work on every day at OnScene Technologies.

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