what rokmetro has accomplished to date

Safer community app — a Covid-19 solution success story

  • A COVID-19 solution was developed by the University of Illinois to help students safely return to campus

  • ROKMETRO adapted that solution for other universities

  • Univeristy of Nebraska, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, American University, Catholic University, and Gallaudet University among others

  • Over 2 million tests results were delivered and reported to public health from our customers

Our safer community customers

WE create the ultimate campus guide that never leaves your side

The ILLINOIS APP is THE flagship example of the rokwire platform.

The Illinois app, the official app of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an example of what we can do for you and your campus. We at ROKMETRO are here to customize the ROKWIRE platform to your specific needs.

ROKMETRO provides development  and operational services for universities to build a more connected campus.

We have partnered with ROKWIRE’s platform to produce a customized application that will connect students with their campus like you’ve never seen before. 

ROKMETRO’s team provides you all the expertise and experience to bring the ROKWIRE platform to your university. 

ROKWIRE is the open source platform that enables anyone to create innovative new services for campuses and smart communities. 

Developed at the University of Illinois, ROKWIRE provides the software used to create the Illinois app. The application provides community members with the information they need to stay connected, healthy, organized, and entertained. 

Today,  over 40,000 people at the University of Illinois use the Illinois app built from the ROKWIRE technology platform. 

primary contributor to rokwire

Fundamental core infrastructure AND APPLICATION FRAMEWORK developed by rokmetro

Our Contributions Include:

  • The Core Building Block which is the central service responsible for managing user and application data throughout the Rokwire ecosystem

  • The Survey Engine and Surveys Building Block which enable complex, dynamic user surveys to be created and published

  • Oversaw the development and refinement of Generative AI driven chat interfaces and tools in the Illinois app

  • The Conversations user experience which allows users to send and receive chat messages within Rokwire mobile apps

  • The student skills self-evaluation and career explorer, as well as a skills coach which helps students improve their behavior, emotional, and social skills

  • Improved map experiences in the the Illinois app to enable discovery of key points of interest around campus

  • The Rokwire client Flutter plugin architecture which allows for convenient reuse of common services and UI components across Rokwire mobile apps

  • The Rokwire Building Block SDK which is a common library that connects the Rokwire Building Blocks to each other


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