| dc.description.abstract | Child safety is a critical concern from the parents as many children use school buses to commute to and from school every day. Parents find it challenging to monitor the safety of their children when they leave for school. A child may board the wrong bus or alight from the wrong drop off point or left in the bus, this may lead to getting lost or getting late for class or home. In the present time, attendance for school are taken manually and for parents to know the location of their children they have to call a teacher who in return looks if the child got to school, but if it's the other way; child leaving school, the teacher can only mention they left and another look is to find whether they alighted at the correct drop off point. The focal drive for this project is to enhance safety while apprising parents on the movement of their children from home to school and vice versa which in return reduces the hustle of parents calling the teachers every time the child is away from them. The project is useful for the school administration as it can give a daily attendance according to the report of those who were dropped in school and at what time. With use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and geo-tagging, a solution to aid in notifying parents of their child’s location via a Short Message Service (SMS). The parent is notified when the child boards or alights from the bus, the SMS containing timestamp and location details. RFID reader detects a tag carried by a child who is uniquely linked to parent details, and then the system triggers an immediate SMS to the respective parent. The parent can as well query the location of a student and the system sends similar SMS with location details of the bus where the child is an occupant. Different modules work hand in hand with each other to deliver the objective of enhancing safety for school going children. | en_US |
