2027 Agenda

States and districts nationwide are restricting student cell phones, and most solutions force a choice between classroom focus and emergency communication. At Uvalde, responder radios failed inside the building while students' phones did not. School Mode is a proposed device-level capability, modeled on Airplane Mode, that restricts distracting functions on campus during school hours while preserving 911, emergency alerts, and parent contact.

This session reports on a live pilot at Murray High School in Utah, testing the hardest part of the problem: knowing, with confidence, whether a phone is inside the school. The pilot draws on two location sources together, a device-based location and a network-based spatial intelligence, which uses existing Wi-Fi, private LTE, and carrier RF, and measures the combined result against human ground-truth walk-tests with real devices.

In this discussion, panelists will share Phase 1 results on indoor location accuracy, geofence edge precision, phones powered on inside the zone, and emergency override, along with what the findings mean for indoor location, 911 location, and every building where device behavior should change based on where the device is. This is not a policy debate. It is field data from the RF environment of a working school.