Use of Advanced Technology to Enhance Security in School Buses

Connectivity is both a necessity and an obligation. Most parents use school transport systems with a trust that their kids reach school from home and vice versa safely. While there are safety rules in school bus that everyone follows, parents are often in fear about their wards till the time they reach home safely.

Schools are safe havens, but the daily commute between the school and the home causes anxiety in most parents. Brunhild Technologies offers a perfect security solution. The security system is backed by current technology and algorithms and ensures the safety of kids when they commute to and fro from schools via a school bus.

The Present Day Scenario

School life is integral in every kid’s life. Students today are exposed to several threats at school, and a school bus is no exception. Several schools still use the old tracking systems for their fleet, most of which do provide satisfactory results, but do they ensure the safety of the student traveling inside them? The old technology is a mere tracking system which uses GPS and GSM technologies and reports the real-time location of the school bus to the parent and the administrator.

So, what is wrong with the current systems used in school buses?

As said, the systems provide satisfactory results and only provide the data related to the location of the bus or the student. But, it is not sophisticated and does not generate alerts when the student boards a wrong bus or has taken the bus in the morning and does not board the bus after school time.

There are several disadvantages of the “not-so-advanced” security systems used in school buses today. Some of them are mentioned below.

• Unable to alert when the student gets down the bus at a different location
• Unable to raise an alert when there is a change of route and more

Such drawbacks pave the way for the implementation of advanced and improvised security systems in school buses, which cover all the necessary features and negate the drawbacks if any. Smart tracking and security systems in school buses, which were once considered a luxury, have become a necessity now.

The security system offered by Brunhild combines all the needed security features into one, thus making lives easier for both schools and parents. Use of enhanced security in school buses makes then secure and efficient.

Essential Components of a Technologically Advanced Security System for School Bus

The modern and advanced school bus security system uses algorithms with advanced technologies, which not only helps to track the students when in the bus, but helps track pick up and drop locations, generate alerts to administration, parents, and drivers and has a wide range of other security features – all of which ensure the safety and security of the student.

Both parents and school authorities can know the whereabouts of the students in “real-time,” and the alerts enable schools to avoid or act on an incident immediately. The security system of Brunhild serves notifications when

• The student does not board the school bus from the stop defined.
• The student has attended the school in the morning and did not board the bus when the school closes.
• A student boards the wrong bus or the wrong student boards the bus.
• A student tries to deboard the school bus at a wrong stop.
• No authorized person comes to pick up the child from the bus.

Conclusion

Safety rules in school bus can be achieved when schools put the latest technologies to use. The use of advanced security systems in school premises and buses will, for sure calm the parents who are concerned about the security of their children.

Security in schools fails due to three main reasons – Schools believe that an incident cannot happen in their school campus, or think they cannot afford it or they do not have the time or resources to implement the new technology. It is time schools move beyond these three main reasons.

We at Brunhild believe that technology has finally found a solution to ease the worry of the parents. It is now time for schools to implement smart solutions and make their premises a lot safer for the students.