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Tyler Technologies demonstrates bus-tracking tablets to Southern Columbia facilities committee
Summary
Tyler Technologies showed the Southern Columbia facilities and finance committee how tablet-mounted RFID scanning and routing software can identify who is on a bus during an accident, send targeted parent notifications, and support substitute drivers; the company proposed 35 tablets and a 3–4 month implementation timeline.
Tyler Technologies representatives demonstrated a tablet- and RFID-based system to the Southern Columbia Area SD facilities and finance committee on Nov. 10, saying it can record student scans on and off buses, produce seating charts and reports, and target parents of students who were on a vehicle at the time of an incident.
The presenter said the system marks each student as "loaded" or "unloaded" in a Students tab, generates a student activity report filterable by run and vehicle, and provides an administrative view of the vehicle's advanced location to confirm where an accident occurred. "Any given point on the run, if somebody needs to know exactly who was on that bus at the time of the incident, we're able to provide that information…
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