InfiniG Wins National Award for Enhancing School Safety with Mobile Coverage-as-a-Service

InfiniG’s innovative Mobile Coverage-as-a-Service (MCaaS) solution has earned national recognition, winning the 2024 TeckNexus Private Network Excellence in Education award. The winning project, completed at Parkside Elementary School in Murray, Utah, addressed a critical safety concern: the lack of reliable mobile coverage inside the school building.

From Connectivity Gaps to Full Coverage
Parkside Elementary serves approximately 600 students in a low-income area of Salt Lake City. The school’s location in a valley, combined with modern building materials like LEED-certified glass and metallic insulation, left classrooms with little to no mobile signal. This posed a serious safety risk, preventing teachers and staff from making emergency calls and slowing communication during urgent situations.

Traditional solutions such as Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) were cost-prohibitive and time-consuming to deploy. InfiniG’s MCaaS offered a faster, more affordable alternative—delivering reliable, 5-bar coverage throughout the school in just four months.

A Partnership for Safer Schools
Working with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Intel, InfiniG deployed CBRS-based small cells, integrating seamlessly with the existing infrastructure. The network automatically connected all mobile users without requiring extra hardware or manual setup. Crucially, it also supported private network applications for future educational use, such as AI-powered classroom tools and real-time language translation.

Key Benefits for Parkside Elementary

• Reliable Emergency Communication: Full mobile coverage allows teachers and staff to call 911 from anywhere in the building.
• Enhanced Safety Measures: Panic buttons in classrooms now send instant mobile alerts, improving emergency response times.
• Improved Daily Communication: Teachers, parents, and students can stay connected throughout the school day.
• Future-Ready Learning Tools: The network supports AI-driven educational applications, boosting engagement and accessibility.

Setting a New Standard in Education
By meeting Alyssa’s Law requirements, enhancing safety protocols, and creating a platform for modern educational tools, InfiniG’s MCaaS deployment has become a model for school connectivity nationwide.

The Parkside Elementary success story demonstrates the powerful role that private networks and neutral host solutions can play in creating safer, more connected learning environments—cost-effectively and at scale.

Read the full TeckNexus article on InfiniG’s award-winning deployment ›