Using RFID for Student Tracking

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There are plenty of ways of tracking people and property. Tracking using telematics, GPS and RFID is more and more common in today’s world. In fact, almost everything can be tracked by RFID. It used to be things, now it is People. In this article, it talks about tracking children via RFID.

For Student Tracking

Enablitz was designed specifically for pupil transportation to monitor student ridership in a safe and non-intrusive way. Knowing if and when a student got on or off the bus accounts for a significant portion of calls parents make to schools and is information that schools need to know. Enablitz provides accurate and immediate answers.

Just What Schools Have Been Asking For

Agnicient has succeeded where others have not by using Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) technology to solve the problem. Students carry a small card that contains passive RFID technology that logs each student’s entry or exit automatically when the student pass the scanner located on the bus. Enablitz is accurate, easy and affordable.

Load and Unload Process Stays the Same

Customers say it works because Enablitz requires no action on the part of drivers or students, other than to carry the card. Enablitz delivers the required performance without impeding the normal loading and unloading process. It’s a true win/win/win/win for school officials, drivers, students and parents.

HOW IT WORKS?

Simple, Safe and Secure

Each student is issued a unique RFID card to carry. Everything else is automatic. As the student passes the Enablitz reader upon entering or leaving the bus, the time, date and location is logged and transmitted to a secure database.

Real-Time Answers

The data is accessed via a web-browser with Agnicient system application. For the first time, accurate information is available to answer parent and administrators’ questions accurately and cost-effectively.

Web-Based Reporting – Makes it fast and easy to access accurate information.
Student Report – Stamps time and date for all loading and unloading activities by student.
Bus Report – Provides all students ridership data by bus.

Improves Safety and Efficiency

School officials can quickly and easily track students entering and leaving buses and be in the best position to answer parents’ questions. Enablitz has made student tracking easy, secure and affordable.

WHO BENEFITS

School Officials, Parents and Students All Gain
Transporting students responsibly is something school officials and parents take very seriously. A student’s boarding or departure status has always been largely reliant on speculation. Enablitz provides the capabilities commensurate to the responsibility.

STUDENTS – Provide valuable information when getting on and off the bus.
PARENTS – Take the appropriate action because they have precise answers to boarding status and times.
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS – Meet obligations to parents and district to do all they can to ensure student safety.
TRANSPORTATION MANAGERS – Equip buses with powerful track and report capabilities cost-effectively.
DRIVERS – Provide valuable and accurate information without having to do anything different.
SERVICE REPRESENTATVES – Answer parents’ and school officials’ questions instantly and accurately.
RISK MANAGERS – Protect the districts from liability by removing uncertainty about boarding status.
IT MANAGERS – Save valuable resources, with no demands on existing IT infrastructure or personnel.

Now student ridership can be monitored in a safe and non-intrusive way. Parents and school officials can have answers easily, immediately and cost-effectively.

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It is Finally Knowable

School officials and parents have been waiting a long time for a solution to the vexing problem of knowing if, when and where a student has boarded or departed a school bus. There is finally an accurate, easy and affordable answer and that answer is Enablitz.

Accurate – RFID card-based systems ensures precise data collection. It is the only one of its kind.
Easy – Enablitz works without requiring anyone to change behavior.
Affordable – Agnicient innovative approach delivers performance at a price that is remarkably affordable.

You Can’t Afford to Go Without

The risk is just too great, now that there is an effective alternative. Think about the time already being spent to answer these calls from parents. It is considerable because the same questions are asked every day, by different parents, about different students. That’s why the effective automation Enablitz offers gives you a daily payback.

Think About What Is Already Being Spent

Think about how you spend your valuable time. Are you chasing down details and still getting incomplete information so you are unable to satisfy parents’ and administrators’ questions? It is time to let Enablitz help you

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Database Assisted Small Business Asset GPS Tracking Systems

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:31:06 +0000

Asset tracking can take many forms when it comes to implementing this concept for businesses. Businesses can use a specific asset GPS tracking system to track small items such as laptops and the more expensive smaller equipment where there is an actual device on the piece of equipment and software to keep track of it’s location, to the systems that track where the resources are and who they are assigned to. Read on to read in the following article about what kinds of information these asset tracking systems can produce for the logistics and equipment manager.

It is becoming common knowledge that database information can greatly assist asset tracking efforts using GPS monitoring systems. What is not so commonly known is that software assisted management of specialized interfaces can contribute additional value by synchronizing real-world data with historically verified data.

GPS and RFID technologies combine to form tag-identifiable virtual communication channels by combining their software operations with master database business queries. The software operations detect variations based on the combination of current real-time GPS/RFID readings matched with correlated queries.

When it comes to small business asset tracking, GPS electronic-receivers and RFID transceivers help owners save time and money but an even greater pay-back is received by the company that merges GPS/RFID receivers with wireless communication channels and corresponding database coordination.

For example, a vehicle inventory program using RFID tags attached to company owned vehicles that are located in several different lots along with GPS receivers attached to the same vehicles represents the static set up. The dynamic tracking idea is accomplished when the RFID tag readings along with their GPS locations are transmitted to a central server where database records are updated.

At this point, the updated information is now available for real-time display on your system display monitors or your printing devices. Also, additional calculations and comparisons with historical data can now contribute to management reporting requests through the same output channels.

The stored data takes advantage of bringing together otherwise unreported values because the real-time occurrences of transmitted location readings take place simultaneously but table-record query automatically combines the two location tags. This of course could happen within a computer program whose values are stored temporarily in variables but programming technique does not account for sensor errors and wireless interruptions that need to be verified over a longer time period.

The most advantageous position for your data collection system to take is to incorporate a database record that includes historical data along with most recent sensor readings. This assures sufficient sampling intervals with sufficient verifiable measurement opportunities.

In conclusion, with more available data over a longer measurement interval, your database assisted GPS asset tracking system will provide you with better results and more accurate tracking data.

Tom Gruich is a professional database designer with 40 years experience in systems analysis and design of database software applications. For more database business mapping thoughts and design ideas please visit Software Database Validation or his Smart Database website at => http://www.adaptcode.com

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