Virginia School District Adds Safety Tech to School Buses
Summary
Functioning like traffic cameras, these photograph violating motorists and cause citations to be mailed to their home. These tablets can be used as a heads up display for the driver, providing a range of information - or video feeds from the digital cameras - all right in front of them. Inspectors use a handheld device that detects the RFID tags - verifying actual inspection - while allowing for highly accurate data entry and tracking. GPS fleet tracking is one of the best upgrades a district could implement, giving them instant overviews of every bus on its route at all times. With a lag of only a few seconds, at most, the district office can know if a bus has stopped unexpectedly, diverged from its expected route, or otherwise behaved in an unusual fashion.