School Bus Tracking Solution - VAMOSYS - Vehicle Tracking System

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School Bus Solutions

• a Success Story by Vamosys

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AIM

• To play a proactive role in implementing smart
  solutions for school buses of a reputed school in
  Chennai.

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Challenges

• Ensure children safety
• Prevent rash driving
• Efficient vehicle performance
• Understanding and following schools
  transportation prospects.
• Drafting solutions with respect to schools
  ideology.

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Preparation

• We compiled an inventory of the available
  vehicles, mapped the routes, the driving time,
  and introduced trip sheets for a week. This
  information was then analyzed before we drew up a
  comprehensive solution to the requirements of
  this school.

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Issues

• Unorganised purchase/addition of vehicles to the
  fleet when on demand.
• Improper and last minute rerouting on trip
  sheets.
• Failure in attaining optimum fuel efficiency when
  analysed on vehicle to vehicle basis.
• Lack of technological inputs.

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Solutions

• Improve safety of children by real-time
  monitoring of routes, with automatic triggers.
• Facilitate real-time updates of bus location to
  parents and school authorities.
• RFID tracking to remain updated on embarking and
  disembarking students.

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Solutions

• Bring in better route management by allocating
  routes that do not overlap each other.
• Optimise fuel efficiency by alert authorities of
  vehicle idling and over speeding.
• Preempt drivers from route deviations or
  circuitous routes to destination.

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Solutions

• Manage fleets better by alerting authorities for
  timely maintenance of vehicles on completion of
  specified engine run time.
• Plan a backup for pickup of stranded students in
  the event of vehicular breakdown etc.

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Installation Precedings

• We relied on our proprietary software and
  hardware interface to integrate the school bus
  fleet. All vehicles were outfitted with reputed
  model GPS Devices.
• We fixed the routes, the timings, the alerts and
  the triggers in the event of a deviation,
  overspeeding and idling for the vehicle.
• The driver was then despatched on a test run
  without students. The instructions were to
  deviate from the designated route midway, cross
  the speed limits and to finally leave the engine
  on idle for a longer time than necessary. The
  triggers alerted the authorities of the
  deviation, the speeding and idling. The next run
  included dummy runs with RFID cards.

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Installation Precedings

• Over a period two weeks, all the buses were
  fitted with the devices, and all parents were
  part of the network that disseminated information
  and notification about their children.
• To simplify the process of inclusion of
  additional users to receive notifications, we
  introduced a system of self-login with a two-step
  password verification.
• This dispensed with the need for time-consuming
  human intervention in the inclusion of new users.

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Review

• On completion of six months, we conducted a
  review of performance to demonstrate the
  difference and benefits post-implementation.The
  school administration was delighted to see from
  their own records.

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Review in Detail

• The monthly fuel consumption was slashed by as
  much as 11.
• There were fewer delays in pickup and drop of
  children due to route optimization.
• The number of calls that usually reached the
  school or the attendant in the bus seeking
  information about position was cut down by as
  much as 90.
• Maintenance schedules were timely and as a
  result, breakdowns were eliminated, except for a
  few punctures.
• The school reserved one vehicle as standby at the
  school to cater to backup requirements, from the
  fleet that was pressed into service. This was
  achieved without affecting the trips, the timings
  or the comfort levels of the students.

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Other solutions offered by Vamosys.

• Enterprise Tracking
• Personal Tracking
• Fuel Level Tracking
• Temperature Tracking
• RFID Tracking
• Pet Tracking

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THANK YOU

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