Benefits

• Works on the LTE network
• Monitor driver safety when not on a call and help lower fleet operational costs
• Get insight into the status of your vehicles by monitoring Engine Control Module for check engine and Diagnostic Trouble Codes*
• Logs the door status and times and location where the stop-arm and lights were engaged
• Allows to a driver to quickly notify stakeholders of an emergency on-board the bus
• Helps streamline Pre-/Post-trip inspections and logs reports for audits
• Helps provide proof of completed safety and compliance procedures
• Helps improve end-of-the-trip checks to ensure no students are left behind

In 2015, in Houston, two students were killed and three injured in a driving accident, when a school bus swerved off an overpass and landed on its side. Meanwhile in Whitter, in the same year, a student with autism died after being left inside a bus in 96-degree heat because the driver failed to perform the mandatory sweep after completing the route. The school bus driver was sentenced to 2 years in state prison.

According to the 2015-2016 National School Bus Loading and Unloading Survey, 75% of student fatalities, while on their way to or from school, were attributed to the school bus. Those involving ‘other vehicle’ were 25%.

“[We] are looking into the feasibility of a technology system that will further safeguard against such instances,” PK Diffenbaugh, Monterey Peninsula School District superintendent wrote after an incident, where an 11-year old girl was forgotten on a bus at Monterey school bus yard.