Since more than 5+ years Team Tracko worked with more than 300+ schools having small & big fleets, in this journey we discovered the 7 critical challenges faced by Schools in Day to Day operations which creates communication gaps, confusions, loss of effort and money.
Transport Management
In general, a school with almost 1000+ students commuting may have 25 to 30 vehicles, 25+ routes and drivers too. Besides, on the routes, there are 200+ boarding stops. Picking up all the students and dropping them at school with optimum security is very challenging.
Tracko Commute- School Bus Tracking System focuses on making transport management easier while achieving optimum security.
This system with various modules like Live Tracking, Parent app, Student Management, Vehicle Exchange, Announcement InBox, Emergency Alerts helps management to ease the day to day transport management.
Student Safety
In addition to the efficient transport management, ensuring safety of each and every student present in the bus is extremely challenging. The manual work of keeping track of buses & verifying attendance of every student, making sure they are boarding/deboarding at respective stops becomes difficult.
Tracko School Bus Tracking System eliminates the labour by providing features like live tracking and attendance management of students. AIS140 standard GPS Tracker is installed in the school bus. This advanced version of the GPS tracker comes with 2 sim cards which results in consistent location updates of the bus. The school can easily track any school bus at any time during the journey.
Attendance management also becomes easy as RFID cards are provided to each student. A RFID reader is installed in the bus. The student just has to scan his/her RFID card when the students onboards the bus and before getting off from the bus. As soon as the student scans it, it is immediately updated and the school becomes aware of the student’s attendance. This keeps the data sorted as no confusion takes place.
Brand positioning
When we see a school bus driving recklessly on the road, in such a case, the school is blamed and not the driver. Such a situation is also prone to accidents.
This becomes a matter of concern as it is related to the students' security.
To address this issue, TRACKO School Bus Tracking System raises overspeed alerts to schools. When a driver drives aggressively or over the set speeds, the school receives alerts.
The Tracko School Bus Tracking System also provides the school with driver behavior reports. This not only aids in the analysis and implementation of necessary measures, but also in ensuring the safety of students while traveling. This, in turn, greatly helps the school's brand positioning.
Parent Anxiety
Every parent is concerned when their child travels to school without them. They are extremely worried until the child reaches school/home safely. The parent would always want to know about the whereabouts of their child. In this situation, there is a chance of parents constantly calling the school/driver in order to know the location of the child. This can leave the driver annoyed.
To avoid this situation, TRACKO School Bus Tracking System provides a platform- Parent App. In this app, the parents are able to track their child’s bus during the journey to school/home. Due to RFID, the parents are informed about the attendance of the student. In-case of any announcement, the announcement is received in the announcement inbox.
Because of this, the parent is always aware of the situation and the location of their child when he/she is traveling to school or back home. This eliminates the possibility of a chaotic situation.
Panic Situation
Sometimes due to a certain situation like an accident that took place on the road, excessive traffic or breakdown of the school bus might cause a delay in the bus. These situations lead to creating a panic situation.
And the fastest and first dose of relief is “communication”. But it’s challenging for school/transporters as they have to reach multiple parents.
In order to send urgent messages, Tracko School Bus Tracking System offers an announcement inbox/alerts. Here, the management can send a message in one click to many parents and school at the same time.
Tracko also provides high definition cameras which support two-way communication. In case a situation arises, for example a conflict between students, misconduct etc, where the school has to go through what happened during the journey, the school can access the data by wifi or sim and solve the issue by taking necessary steps.
Vehicle and Driver Compliance Management
One more challenge faced by school is compliance management of the Vehicle and the Driver. Tracko School Bus Tracking System helps in managing important vehicle documents like RCTC, the fitness certificate required for every school bus driver and the vehicle insurance.
Tracko School Bus Tracking System gives alerts when the documents are going to expire. This helps the management in maintaining the documents and also reminds them of the expiry dates so they can renew it as soon as possible.
Fleet Management
When it comes to manually maintaining vehicle data, fleet management is one of the most time-consuming tasks. Because there are so many school buses, there is a chance of missing out on information. It becomes difficult to keep track of the various aspects of each vehicle.
Tracko School Bus Tracking System provides maintenance alerts and maintains the data systematically without leaving any information behind to make this process easier. The system also keeps track of the vehicle's expenses, Fuel management Document Management, Tyre Management & much more
Tracko School Bus Tracking System helps overcome 7 major & multiple minor challenges faced by schools making the students journey safe, peaceful and delightful by taking care of all aspects causing worry to the school.