Overview / Usage

Here are the cool features that make LOCATERA the world's best school bus tracking app solution:

• Most Innovative: World's first, not just in innovation, but in continuous innovation
• Most Simple: Works just with a (cheap) smartphone in a bus! NO other hardware required
• Most Easy: Download the app & get started with your existing phones right away
• Most Child-Friendly: Uses only child-friendly technologies including NFC and BLE (NO Active RFID)
• Most Accurate: Uses both GPS and network in an intelligent way
• Most Secure: Allows only the registered school buses and parents to install and use the app
• Most Reputed: Winner of numerous global awards and recognitions
• Most Affordable: Own the app for a one-time packaging fee & use it for any number of years

Methodology / Approach

Locatera helps parents:

Track Bus & Child:

• Locate and track the school bus (real time) to plan time to drop off or pick up the child
• Parents using normal phones (without the app or Internet facility) can just make a 'missed call' to track the bus and the children inside!

Receive Notifications:

• Receive instant boarding notifications (pick-up point)
• Receive instant de-boarding notifications (drop point)

Check Attendance

• Check to confirm if the child is present in the school bus (or not) at any given point of time

Find Distance & Time

• Check the distance of the school bus from the boarding point
• Check the time the bus would take to reach the boarding point

Call Bus

• Speak to the school bus attendant in case of an emergency

Locatera helps schools:

Easily Manage Bus Attendance

• Manually (by selecting the student IDs on the attendant’s hand phone)
• By scanning the Quick Response (QR) Code-based ID cards
• By swiping the Near Field Communication (NFC)-powered ID cards
• Automatically (By just assigning Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-powered ID cards)

Efficiently Manage Bus Fleet

• Locate any school bus on a map real-time
• Locate any student on a bus (route)
• Communicate with any parent
• Communicate with any school bus attendant

Quickly Schedule Bus Routes

• Add or remove buses (routes) on the fly
• Re-schedule bus routes without any hassle

Easily Maintain Bus Reports

• Keep record of students' bus attendance and activity details

Technologies Used

MIT App Inventor
Thunkable
Google Cloud
Google Maps
Google Distance Matrix
Google Fusion Tables