Know who boarded.
Know where the bus is.
A five year old cannot tap a card or hold still for a camera. A tag in the bag answers for them, at the door of the bus, at the gate and in the yard.
One morning, from depot out to roll call.
Three lanes running at once. The bus on its route, the gate counting people through, the yard at assembly. Every mark below is a real read from a tag or a reader, placed on the minute it happened. Nobody wrote any of it down.
A parent does not want a dashboard.
They want three lines and no login to remember. A phone number, a code, and the day as it happens. Boarded. Reached. Running late. The office sees the whole campus, the parent sees one child, and neither has to call the other to find out.
Boarded Bus 12
Stop 4, Sector 9 · 07:19
Entered campus
Gate B1 · 07:46
Bus 12 is running late
12 minutes behind · evening run
What the office stops guessing at.
Did she get on the bus this morning?
The tag answers at the door of the vehicle rather than from a register filled in afterwards. Boarding lands against the stop and the minute it happened.
Where is Bus 12 right now?
On the map, with the last stop it cleared and how long it stood there. A late run is visible before the phone starts ringing.
Who is inside the campus at this minute?
Gate reads build a live count and a list by class. Useful on an ordinary Tuesday, and the only thing worth having during a drill.
Did he leave with the right person?
Pickup is matched against the guardians on file. An unmatched pickup is a question at the gate rather than a discovery at six in the evening.
Is that route worth running?
Boardings per stop across a term, so a route gets split or merged on numbers instead of on whoever complained loudest.
The morning, written down as it happens.
Not a summary typed up at four in the afternoon. Each of these is a read with a time on it, kept long enough to be useful when somebody asks about a Tuesday in March.
Stop, direction, time on and time off, per vehicle.
Entry and exit through every gate, by person and by class.
Position through the run, dwell at each stop, route completed or not.
Who collected the child, matched against the guardians on file.
Not boarded, not entered, left early. Flagged the same morning, not at the end of the month.
Any day replayed later, which is what a parent or an inspector will actually ask for.
Runs on whatever is already fitted.
A tag stitched into a bag, a card at a turnstile, a reader on the door frame of the bus, a unit already fitted in the cab. If a school has some of this, it gets used rather than replaced.
Walk us through your morning.
Tell us how many buses, how many gates and what is already fitted. We will tell you what a first term would look like.
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