RFID & GP School bus Safety

RFID & GPS Tracking For School bus Safety Are You Looking For Best RFID Solution For School’s & College Contacts [email protected] 1

RFID and GPS Tracking For Students Safety Solution School boards are under pressure to not only provide a safe, reliable transportation service to school children and their parents, but also to run as efficiently as possible in light of today’s budget restraints. A GPS tracking system can make a school bus fleet more profitable, plus it helps to keep children safe. The school wanted a School Bus tracking system so that parents and school administration could know where their students are at any given time on any of their buses. The school wanted to place top emphasis on the safety of students along with. The Trace School Bus RFID & GPS Tracking Solution has the ability to locate and track children. Through Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Identification of children and tracking for locating children in predefined areas in school bus. Radio Frequency (RF) – based tracking is for helping parents to keep an eye on their children wherever they are. And with GPS tracking for locating school bus anywhere. RFID, radio frequency identification is a most promising and growing technology for automatic identification and data capture of moving and non-moving objects. Reader Student RFID tag from 20 meter 2 UHF RFID card reader 20 meter long range integrated 12dBi linear polarized UHF Far Field antenna High Quality UHF RFID Reader

Feature 01 School bus arrival Notification to parents ▪ SMS notification to the parents upon Students Board the boarding/leaving of their kids from school bus. the School BUS 02 ▪ Parents alerts about the expected time of arrival of the Tracks Students bus, when the bus starts its journey. Movement ▪ School authorities alerted incase of diversion in bus 03 Track the Students 04 Student enters route. Bus and Route School main gate ▪ Stores retrievable data, even if the vehicle goes beyond the network area. ▪ Real-time monitoring of bus. ▪ No Manual maintenance attendance register. ▪ Customized standard reports for school. ▪ Reduce frank parents call. Benefits Students Attendance gets updated and noted to ▪ Track movement of their child’s school bus school & parents from anywhere through Parents App and Notification. Notification when students ▪ Response time on emergency Alert & Reading 05 leaves the School and situations becomes easy as the exact your home stop location of the school bus is traceable. 06 boards the school bus ▪ Unwanted behavior can be monitored and prevented. ▪ Efficiently utilization of resources. 07 Student enters School main gate ▪ Better accountability to parents and garner a goodwill. 3

Geo Fencing for School & Collage ▪ 24/7 Operation and monitoring of your fleet. ▪ Enforcing keep-out zones, monitoring specific areas for bus activity. ▪ Reducing wasted time by analyzing traveled routes and monitoring activities. ▪ Quickly searching for specific buses, nearby vehicles, or missing vehicles. ▪ Reducing engine idling. Report on idle and active vehicles. ▪ Identify potential theft or miss-use of school buses. ▪ Monitoring vehicles for speeding or speeding in zones ▪ Instant Communication via Phone, SMS alerts in case of Emergency Zone A Zone B Zone C Zone D Bus D Bus c Bus B Bus A 4

How RFID/GPS/LBS Integration work Global Positioning System GPS/GPRS Transmitter #Principle Room1 #School Bus1 #Class Room1 #Class Room2 #Hall Way #Computer Lab #Lab Room1 #Staff Room1 GPRS/3G Students Location Based Services 5

BUS and School Monitoring & Alerts Echo System SMS Live/History MAPs Access 24x7 Parent Portal RFID GPS Tracker Telecom Reader RFID Reader Cloud Server RFID Student Card 6 GPS tracker School zone GEO location RFID Reader

RFID Types for Short & Long Distance Readers (Radio Frequency Identification) LF HF UHF (Low Frequency) (High Frequency) (Ultra-High Frequency) Frequency: 125 - 134 kHz Cost Active Active Range: $0.50 - $5 Read Range: Contact - 10 cm (Battery Powered) (Battery Powered) Examples: Animal tracking, Access Control, Car Key-Fob, Applications Frequency: 13.56 MHz Frequency: 433 & 856- 960 MHz Frequency: 856- 960 MHz with high volumes of liquids and Cost Range: $0.23 - $10 Cost Range: $25 - $100+ Cost Range: $0.13 - $25 metals Read Range: contact - 30 cm Read Range: 30 - 100+ meters Read Range: Near contact - 25+ Pros: work well around liquids and Examples: DVD Kiosks, Library Examples: Auto dealerships, Auto meters metals, global standards Books, Personal ID cards, Manufacturing, Mining, Construction Examples: Supply Chain, High Cons: very short read range, limited Poker/Gaming Chips Pros: Very long read range, lower volume Manufacturing, quantity of memory, low data Pros: NFC protocol, larger cost readers, write extensive Pharmaceuticals, Electronic tolls, transmission rate (read very few tags memory, global standards amounts of data, high data Item Tracking, Race Timing, Asset at one one), high production cos Cons: short read range, low data transmission rates (read more tags at Tracking transmission rate (read fewer tags one time) Pros: longer read range, lower cost at one time) Cons: very high tag cost, cannot be per tag, wide range of tag sizes and shipped via air transport (if tags are types, global standards, high data actively beaconing), complex transmission rates (read more tags at software may be necessary, high one time) amount of interference from metal Cons: typically higher associated and liquids, no global standards infrastructure cost, write small amounts of data, high amount of interference from metal and liquids 7

RFID Technology Comparison for School GPS solutions RFID tags 125 kHz or 13.56MHz UHF RFID card reader 20 meter long range 8 (LF or HF) MHz Dual integrated 12dBi linear polarized UHF Far Field Frequency RFID antenna High Quality UHF RFID Reader Reader

FAQs What is a GPS Tracking Solution? GPS (Global Positioning System) determine the position of a vehicle by using a tracking device. The Trace School Bus solution records precise locations at regular intervals. The GPS tracks the students and the buses positions during their journey to and from school. With Trace School Bus, school authorities can easily ensure students safety, anticipate buses delays while keeping parents informed at any moment. What are GPS & RFID Tracking Solution? Along with GPS, a Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) has been inserted to make the system more pertinent and secure. With the GPS & RFID Tracking Solution, school authorities can locate their drivers and their students in and out of the school premises to keep the children safe. Each student and staff member receive RFID enabled ID cards which need to be swiped while boarding and leaving the school bus. Once the card is scanned, parents get alerts via SMS. Anytime, anywhere you can locate the students and your staff. How do parents get notified? Through a specific application, notifications in the form of SMS reach parents in real-time regarding their children's school bus location. What kind of internet connection is needed to access the application? It’s good to have internet connection on Smart or IOS Phone. Parents can take advantage of the Mobile App by tracking, in real-time, their children's movements in the school bus. If you don’t have Smart or IOS Phone, even then you will get notified by SMS. Is the data shared with us for GPS & RFID Tracking Solution safe ? Yes, all the confidential data shared, such as contact details or student details, are secure. 9

RFID & GPS Tracking For School bus Safety Are You Looking For Best RFID Solution For School’s & College Contacts [email protected] 10