Smart School Bus Tracking: Requirements and Design of an IoT based School Bus Tracking System

In many countries, school buses are considered as easy options for parents to transport their children to their schools. However, safety of child has always been a concern for parents, as most of them consider it highly unsafe way of transportation. Nevertheless, with the advent of technology it has been observed that mobile computing and IoT has provided us profound solutions for safe transportation of school going children. Proposed IoT based Bus Tracking System, will introduce a tracking website and an android application for the school admin, drivers of the bus and the parents. Proposed system will provide the admin with the charge of adding new bus driver and new student to the driver list. Furthermore, the application itself will generate a fixed QR code for each student that will be placed on a card that contain the student personal information. Also, proposed system will track the bus location through the driver mobile. Subsequently, the parents' application will display a map that show the current bus position and it will be updated after each period, and the intervals between each update will be short as possible to ensure the safety of everyone. Moreover, there will be different types of notifications that will be received by the school admin or parents' or both. For instance, school admin and parents will receive a notification if the bus is out of schedule, and there will be another notification will be received by the parents' if there is any change in the daily bus schedule.