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International Journal of Scientific Research and Engineering Development-– Volume 2 Issue 3, May –June 2019
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SMART SCHOOL BUS MONITORING
SYSTEM USING RFID
Swapnali Nikam, Ashwini Khaire, Rupali Surse, Bhagyasri Kothawade
*(Information Technology, SNDCOE & RC, Yeola)
** (Information Technology,SNDCOE &RC,Yeola)
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Abstract:
On reviewing the past work of school bus tracking, monitoring and alerting system, there is a possibility to
categorize various methodologies and identify new trends. One among them is a challenge for vehicle
tracking, monitoring and alerting system. Now-a-days with the increase in the crime rate and accidents,
Student often get on the wrong buses and get off at the wrong stop. Bus drivers may be unable to identify
all student and will not know in time if a student is missing. Parents have no way of knowing if there ward
is safe until the evening when the returns there is no provision to monitor driving with in speed limit
unscheduled deviation. School student aren’t allow phones. Working parents have no way of knowing if
and when there kids get home. There is no reliable method for tackling delays or accidents, which further
aggravate parents. This project makes use of the applicability of radio frequency identification (RFID)
technology for tracking and monitoring children during their trip to and from school on school buses. And
it has the advantage of efficient tracking capabilities, low cost and easy maintenance. The RFID tags are
effective and it is used for tracking and monitoring children. Fire sensor is also used in this project to
detect any fire accidents. send a message to the parents through SMS. The system consists of three main
units, bus unit, parent unit and school unit. The bus unit is used to detect when a child enters/exits from the
bus using RFID Card. This information is communicated to the parent unit and school unit that identify the
presence of children . The system tracks the school bus by the IOT.
Keywords — Global Position System, Radio Frequency Identification, PIC16F877A microcontroller,
Sensors.
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I. INTRODUCTION
This project makes use of the applicability of
radio frequency identification (RFID) technology
for tracking and monitoring children during their
trip to and from school on school busses. And it has
the advantage of efficient tracking capabilities, low
cost and easy maintenance. The individual RFID
tags are effective and it is used for tracking and
monitoring children. Fire sensor is also used in this
project to detect any fire accidents. send a message
to the parents through SMS Gateway. The system
consists of three main units, bus unit, parent unit
and school unit. The bus unit is used to detect when
a child enters/exits from the bus using RFID Card.
This information is communicated to the parent unit
and school unit that identify the presence of
children . The system tracks the school bus by the
IOT.
Smart bus tracking system has been proposed that
when any student enter into bus the alert massage
will send to their parents and also arrival times,
buses current locations, and bus routes on a map
can be easily found out with the help of IOT. GPS
(Global Positioning System) and Google maps are
used for navigation and display services
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respectively. Millions of children need to be moved
from home to school and vice versa every day. For
their parents, getting a safe transport for their
children is a crucial issue. At present days all are
very much aware about the safety concerns. At the
same time parents can send their children to schools
which have high reputation and all facilities. Now-
a-days all schools have bus facilities, even by their
child are going to school through school bus parents
have some worry about their child, whether they
reached safely or in a dangerous situation. This
system gives an alert message when child boards
and leaves the bus using the RFID tag wore by the
child by placing that tag before the RFID reader.
The sensors and RFID reader are interfaced with
Microcontroller. Each RFID tag has an information
about and individual children which was sensed by
an RFID reader transmit the corresponding
information to their parents using SMS. The outputs
This SMS Gateway can sends the messages to
authorized persons according to the received data .
For instance, the Australian College of Road Safety
says that bus travelling in the safest form of road
transport system is safer than the private car for the
children, and that the record for school bus travel in
particular is very good . Global Positioning System
and Global system for mobile communication
module is designed for tracking and positioning the
school bus. Also, the research undertaken by
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in
USA notes that when comparing the number of
fatalities of children aged 5 to 18 years during
normal school transportation hours, school buses
are 87 times safer than private cars . However,
headlines like “Girl dies in bus tragedy”
from the May 18, 2010 issue of the Peninsula
newspaper in Qatar seems to be repeated several
times every year in different places of the world .
This system will issue the messages to parents to
con-vey them that their children are reached to
school safely, and they are in the school and also
give an alert message if any fire accident occurs.
The tracking system includes the location and speed
of the vehicle in current movement, speed of the
vehicle is monitored and then SMS alert is send to
the parents through the SMS Gateway.The
proposed system shows that the RFID tracking
technology is a practical option for monitoring and
tracking the child during their trip to and from
school on school bus. The system tracks the school
bus by the GPS Module and also gives an alert if
the bus crosses the speed limit. The GPS Module is
used for Live Tracking of the School Buses and
alerting if fire accident occurs and send an alert
message to the parents, school .
2. Literature Survey
The project idea is to put an end to incidents like
Innocent children are ending their lives for
unworthy reasons . There are many systems which
provide security to the school children. The use of
RFIDs makes it easier to maintain and use, but
could not give the certain information about the
situation in the bus i.e. this system does not provide
any information when children are in dangerous
situations . To track the live location of the bus for
the speedy recovery when it is subjected to
accidents .To intimate the school management and
parents about the hazardous situation in the bus . To
avoid the rash driving and to intimate when the bus
is subjected to tilt this paper devised a method to
identify the students are dropped at correct
locations and if they are dropped elsewhere the
location is identified and alert is sent to parent. The
system monitors the children inside the bus in a
safer manner. It uses the combination of RFID
(Radio Frequency Identification), GPS (Global
Position System) technologies. Each Student carries
a unique RFID card embedded in each of the
student’s school bags. When the student enters or
exits from the bus the reader records and transfer
data in the database. Radio Frequency identification
(RFID) is used to transmit Information of a subject
using radio waves .
This information consists of unique digital
number which differentiates various objects. An
RFID system is made up of two different parts viz.
RFID tag and RFID reader . There is a microchip
antenna inside tag; This chip consists of useful data
in different forms. A study has showed that, the
performance of reader decreases rapidly with
increase in a distance .Children carries the unique
RFID card. This RFID card is embedded on his

own smartcard. When children in or out from
school bus, reader will record a response and send
an alert to parents and school. The system shows an
efficient and systematic way of using RFID
tracking applications coupled with smart phone
technologies to fulfill the key security and
monitoring purposes. In order to optimize the
proposal, this paper investigated the effects of
variable localization of RFID tags from reader and
power loss, inefficiency and distance constraints
caused due to equal power allocations to the tags.
Reducing the number of reader by using smart
antenna in RFID and increasing coverage area,
several other sectors will be hopefully able to
leverage the benefits of RFID technology.
Figure 1. Typical Passive RFID System.
The RFID reader consists of an antenna, power
supply, processor, transceiver and an interface for
connecting it to a host computer (i.e. via serial port,
or Ethernet). The RFID tag has an antenna, a
transceiver, and an Integrated Circuit (IC) with
memory. The performance of the RFID tag is
determined by factors such as IC technology used,
the read/write capability, the read range, the radio
frequency, and external factors such as the
environment and packaging.
3. Proposed System
In this system PIC16F877A microcontroller has
been used. The system consists of three units, bus
unit, school unit and parent unit. Bus unit consists
of RFID Reader, Fire sensors and SMS to alert
messages to parents when their children boards or
leaves the bus. Fire sensor will be placed within the
busunit to detect fire and issues alert messages by
giving the location of the bus using IOT. School
unit consists of RFID Reader and GSM Module.
The entire data in two units will be processed by
using PIC16F877A microcontroller. PIC16F877A
microcontroller is used in this system. This
processor has advantages like, total number of pins
40 and there are 30 pins for input and outputs, 368
RAM bytes, 5MIPS CPU speed, 8 channels of 10
bit ADC converter is used.
In this system Fire sensor is used to detect the fire
accident. If there any fire accident occurs, The alert
message will be send to the school unit and parents
with the help of IOT and SMS . Each student
consist of an individual RFID tag with the help of
RFID tag, IOT. Parents and school unit can
receives an alert message. The information of RFID
tag is read by RFID reader. The reader transmits the
corresponding information. RFID tag is used to
send an alert message like the location of a person,
speed of the bus to their respective parents. In this
system IOT is used to send the alert message to the
parents if their respective child is get in the bus or
get down the bus with the help of RFID tag and
reader. LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display is a
flat panel display technology commonly used in
TVs and computer monitors. It is also used in
screens for mobile devices, such as laptops, tablets,
and smartphones. The backlight in liquid crystal
display provides an even light source behind the
screen. This light is polarized, meaning only half of
the light shines through to the liquid crystal layer.
The liquid crystals are made up of a part solid, part
liquid substance that can be "twisted" by applying
electrical voltage to them. They block the polarized
light when they are off, but reflect red, green, or
blue light when activated.
ADC Power Supply Unit (commonly called a
PSU) deriving power from the AC mains (line)
supply performs a number of tasks: It changes (in
most cases reduces) the level of supply to a value
suitable for driving the load circuit. It produces a
DC supply from the mains (or line) supply AC sine
wave. It prevents any AC from appearing at the
supply output. Power supplies in recent times have
greatly improved in reliability but, because they
have to handle considerably higher voltages and

currents than any or most of the circuitry they
supply, they are often the most susceptible to failure
of any part of an electronic system. GPS is a
satellite navigation system used to determine the
ground position of an object. Each GPS satellite
broadcasts a message that includes the satellite's
current position, orbit, and exact time. A GPS
receiver combines the broadcasts from multiple
satellites to calculate its exact position using a
process called triangulation.
4. Implementation
In this paper, school bus tracking and monitoring
has been proposed. RFID is used for the
identification of the children. Each student has their
individual RFID tag with the help of the RFID tag
the student can monitored by their parents and also
by school. When the student enters or exits from the
bus the reader records and transfer data in the
database. For every entry and exit RFID tag is
sensed by the RFID reader. The number of students
can be counted in the bus. Here front door is
considered as the entry door and rear door is
considered as the exit door. Sensor is fixed on both
the doors and the sensor count the exit and entry of
the student. Only one person can entry or exit at a
time. The RFID reader read the tag and send an
alert message to their respective parents through
GPS . The front door sensor increase the count. The
rear door sensor decrease the count and both the
sensor calculate the total number of students present.
Fire sensor is used to detect if any fire accident
occurs, it will send an alert message to parents,
school, and fire engine. The tracking system details
will be sent to the server at the school side for
storage and on the mobile device to the parents. The
information of students is stored in a database at a
school side. The proposed system is used to detect
the speed of the vehicle and send an alert to the
parents, if the bus cross the speed limit. Parents use
the Google map in android to track the bus. If the
parents open the Google map the speed of the bus
and the current location of the bus can display in
the android. The GPS module is used to send the
alert message to the parents and also to the school
unit. The LCD display is fixed in the school bus to
display the identification of the student to the driver.
The proposed system is used to intimate parents
about the bus location and also about the child
boarding to the school bus. The system addressed t
faced by parents of waiting on the bus stop for long
duration. The system includes RFID for unique
identification and the GPS is used for the location
tracker which is inbuilt in the android phone. The
complete location and children details are database.
Each student has the unique key at the school side
to display the student details not only at the entry
and exit of the student at any time. If the first key is
pressed the respective student details displayed in
the android mobile in school unit. A key is fixed in
a bus unit at a driver side to send an alert message
to parents which overcomes the problem faced by
the parents of waiting on the bus stop for long
duration. The GPS module which is present in the
android mobile starts to track the location of the bus
in the form of latitude and longitude.
Figure 2. Simulation result
The Proposed System consists of hardware parts
and android and web based application as shown in
the Figure 2. The proposed system is divided into 3
main units as shown in figure 3.
A. Bus unit
B. Parent unit
C. School unit
A. Bus unit

The Bus Unit is used for detecting the child when
the child enters and exits the bus and send this
information to the School Unit as well as parent
unit. The Bus Unit consists of:
a. RFID Technology: RFID Reader and RFID
Tag (Radio Frequency Identification
Detection).
Figure 3. Overall view of 3 modules
b. GPS Module: Global Positioning System
c. Switch
d. PIC16F877A Microcontroller.
The functions of RFID Reader are integrated with
the RFID Tags. The RFID Reader is attached at the
entrance of the bus and the RFID Reader module
works as both transmitter and receiver of the radio
frequency signals. The RFID Tag is enhanced in
students ID card. The GPRS Modem is used for
communication with the Server via GPRS. The
GPS Module is used for Live Tracking of the
School Buses and alerting if the bus crosses the
speed limit in build in GPS Module. The switch
board consists of a button where, when the bus is in
major trouble can press the button as by
microcontroller can communicate with the server.
B. Parent Unit
The Parent Unit consist of an Android
Application where the Parent Sign up with the
mobile number registered in the School Database
Server and Login into the account to get the child’s
notifications automatically from the School
Database Server and can also be able to track the
bus in which the child is traveling.
The Parents who are not able to use the Android
Application; The messages will be send in the
Inbox of the Parent Phone. There is the drawback
for the Parents who are not using Android
Application; they could not able to view the live
bus location.
C. School Unit
The School Unit consists of a Web Based
Application were the Admin can be able to do all
the Master Entries like Add, Delete, Update,
Modify the details of the School Buses, Students,
Routes, Stops and many more as required and hence
it has been saved on the Server. Via GPS Module
attached in the Buses; the School Unit can able to
view the bus locations of the Buses on the Google
Map with optimized route and schedule given to
cover each stops from source to destination. The
School Unit gets the alert message instantly when
the Bus Crosses the Speed Limit. The School Unit
keeps the records of the students, buses, routes,
stops, speed of bus as well as the overall history
with children in/out, time into/from the bus;
assigned optimized bus route, cover all the stops,
etc. These all are included in the Reports on the
Web Based Application which is been able to view
by the Admin only.
5. School Database Server
The School Database Server contains overall
database for the child safety and is responsible for
transmitting the received data from the
Microcontroller into useful services. The Server
filters and analyses the received data, track the real
time current location of the buses, generate alert
messages, notifications and reports and so on.
School Database Server consist databases like
students information, their parents details, school
buses details and need some of the algorithms to
complete the task like sending notification of
specified parents in thedatabase of each and every

activity of the student and the bus details. School
Database Server also includes data School Unit
with the location of the Bus with showing
optimized route to reach the bus location on the
Google map
6. Conclusion
This proposed system aims at enhancing the
safety of children during the daily transportation to
and from school. RFID Reader located inside the
bus detects the RFID tags of the child. It sends
instant notification with the relevant data from the
school database server via internet. The parents can
log into the Application and monitor the details of
their children and track the location of the bus. The
admin can add stops, and generate an optimized
route and can have a live tracking of the bus.
Further this system can be enhanced by Parking
Management System, having VANET for bus to
bus communication. This system can be extended
for full-time monitoring of children that will be
helpful for parents and guardians at minimum cost.
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