A Smart Sensor School Management System That Improves Security Of Student

A Cost Effective School Management system (CESMS) for disadvantaged schools in South Africa using the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model was created to collect comprehensive data of a student and present it before educators. The CESMS aims to bring parents, educators and the administrators together on a virtual platform to showcase the progress of students. A forum is provided in the CESMS where educators and administrators can discuss and solve the challenges they face as well. The system has been successful in implementing its inception requirements. The drawback however is that CESMS does not address the issue of safety of a student. The beginning of a school day is when a student leaves home and ends when the student returns home. Parents are in the dark throughout this period. Over the years there have been many incidents where children have been kidnapped on-route to school or abused in the school premises itself. This paper aims to improve a student's security by suggesting the development of a device that uniquely identifies a child and relays their location periodically. Through the pillars of industry 4.0 (I.4.0) the development of a sensor device is suggested. Using Internet of Things (IoT), one of the pillars of (I.4.0), a sensor that automatically identifies a student and transmits they're location at intervals will be designed. This is a work in progress paper and aims to showcase what has been achieved thus far and how the study can be progressed.