- Patent Number:
10586,436
- Appl. No:
16/112014
- Application Filed:
August 24, 2018
- Abstract:
A student tracking system tracks students' location traveling to and from schools and provides information about the students to responsible parties associated with the students such as parents, bus drivers, school administrators, and faculty. Readers read identification information from tags (e.g. radiofrequency identification tags) associated with the students and/or entrance/exit points of school buses, school buildings and/or classrooms and send the identification information along with location information (e.g. via a global navigation satellite system receiver) to a tracking and authorization module, which generates event information for entering and exiting events at the entrance/exit points, verifies that the event information matches predetermined school schedule, bus and route information, detects anomalies in the event information, and generates attendance information. The tracking and authorization module sends the event, verification, anomaly and/or attendance information to devices operated by the responsible parties.
- Inventors:
Sensormatic Electronics, LLC (Boca Raton, FL, US)
- Assignees:
Sensormatic Electronics, LLC (Boca Raton, FL, US)
- Claim:
1. A system for tracking students of schools, the system comprising: readers comprising wireless receivers for receiving identification information from tags during entering and exiting events of the students; and a tracking and authorization module for generating event information for the entering and exiting events based on the identification information received by the readers and sending the event information to parent/teacher devices, wherein the readers or the tags are installed on buses for transporting the students to and from the schools, and the exiting and entering events represent instances of the students entering and exiting the school buses and wherein the tracking and authorization module generates verification information based on the event information and stored bus and route information for the students and sends the verification information to the parent/teacher devices.
- Claim:
2. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein readers stationed at the schools or on buses for transporting the students to and from the schools receive identification information associated with the students from mobile computing devices, wearable beacons and/or identification badges of the students.
- Claim:
3. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein readers of the students receive identification information associated with buses for transporting the students to and from the schools from tags stationed on the buses.
- Claim:
4. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein readers of the students receive identification information associated with areas of the schools from tags stationed at the areas of the schools.
- Claim:
5. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tags comprise wireless transmitters and/or passive radio-frequency identification tags for sending the identification information.
- Claim:
6. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein mobile applications executing on the parent/teacher device render graphical user interfaces on displays of the parent/teacher devices, and parent/teacher devices display the event information via the graphical user interfaces.
- Claim:
7. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the parent/teacher devices are operated by parents of the students, teachers, school administrators, bus drivers and/or security personnel of the schools.
- Claim:
8. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the readers comprise global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers and generate location information for the buses based on GNSS data received by the GNSS receivers, and the tracking and authorization module receives the location information and sends the location information to the parent/teacher devices.
- Claim:
9. The system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the tracking and authorization module generates and stores bus and route information for the buses and the students based on the location information and the event information.
- Claim:
10. The system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the tracking and authorization module generates bus proximity information with respect to stops assigned to the students based on the location information and sends the bus proximity information to parent/teacher devices operated by parents of the students.
- Claim:
11. The system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the tracking and authorization module generates optimal route information based on the location information and the event information and sends the optimal route information to parent/teacher devices operated by drivers of the buses.
- Claim:
12. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tracking and authorization module generates occupancy information for the buses based on the event information and sends the occupancy information to the parent/teacher devices.
- Claim:
13. A system for tracking students of schools, the system comprising: readers comprising wireless receivers for receiving identification information from tags during entering and exiting events of the students; and a tracking and authorization module for generating event information for the entering and exiting events based on the identification information received by the readers and sending the event information to parent/teacher devices, wherein the readers comprise global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers and generate location information for buses based on GNSS data received by the GNSS receivers, and the tracking and authorization module receives the location information and sends the location information to the parent/teacher devices, and wherein the tracking and authorization module generates anomaly information based on accumulated location information and bus and route information for the buses and sends the anomaly information to the parent/teacher devices.
- Claim:
14. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the readers or the tags are installed at emergency doors of the buses, and the tracking and authorization module sends alerts to the parent/teacher devices in response to determining that the emergency doors were accessed based on the event information.
- Claim:
15. A system for tracking students of schools, the system comprising: readers comprising wireless receivers for receiving identification information from tags during entering and exiting events of the students; and a tracking and authorization module for generating event information for the entering and exiting events based on the identification information received by the readers and sending the event information to parent/teacher devices, wherein the readers or the tags are stationed at entrance and exit points of the school, and the exiting and entering events represent instances of the students entering and exiting the school, and wherein the readers stationed at the entrance and exit points include mobile computing devices operated by faculty, administrators and/or security personnel of the school, and the tracking and authorization module verifies the entering and exiting events based on whether the readers also received identification information from tags installed on authorized vehicles associated with the students.
- Claim:
16. A system for tracking students of schools, the system comprising: readers comprising wireless receivers for receiving identification information from tags during entering and exiting events of the students; and a tracking and authorization module for generating event information for the entering and exiting events based on the identification information received by the readers and sending the event information to parent/teacher devices, wherein the readers or the tags are stationed at entrance and exit points of the school, and the exiting and entering events represent instances of the students entering and exiting the school, and further comprising surveillance cameras for capturing image data depicting entering and exiting events at the entrance and exit points of the school, wherein the tracking and authorization module receives the image data, detects entering and exiting events based on the image data, determines whether identification information corresponding to the detected entering and exiting events was received from the readers, and generates alerts in response to determining that no corresponding identification information was received.
- Claim:
17. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the readers or the tags are stationed at entrance and exit points of classrooms of the school, the exiting and entering events represent instances of the students and/or other authorized individuals entering and exiting the classrooms, and the tracking and authorization module generates attendance information based on the event information and sends the attendance information to the parent/teacher devices.
- Claim:
18. A method for tracking students of schools, the method comprising: readers receiving identification information from tags during entering and exiting events of the students; and generating event information for the entering and exiting events based on the identification information received by the readers and sending the event information to parent/teacher devices, wherein the readers or the tags are installed on buses for transporting the students to and from the schools, and the exiting and entering events represent instances of the students entering and exiting the school buses, and further comprising generating anomaly information based on accumulated location information and on stored bus and route information for the buses and sending the anomaly information to the parent/teacher devices.
- Claim:
19. A method for tracking students of schools, the method comprising: readers receiving identification information from tags during entering and exiting events of the students; and generating event information for the entering and exiting events based on the identification information received by the readers and sending the event information to parent/teacher devices, wherein the readers or the tags are stationed at entrance and exit points of the school, and the exiting and entering events represent instances of the students and/or other authorized individuals entering and exiting the school, and further comprising verifying the entering and exiting events based on whether the readers also received identification information from vehicle devices installed on authorized vehicles associated with the students, wherein the readers include mobile computing devices operated by faculty, administrators and/or security personnel of the school.
- Claim:
20. A method for tracking students of schools, the method comprising: readers receiving identification information from tags during entering and exiting events of the students; and generating event information for the entering and exiting events based on the identification information received by the readers and sending the event information to parent/teacher devices, wherein the readers or the tags are stationed at entrance and exit points of the school, and the exiting and entering events represent instances of the students and/or other authorized individuals entering and exiting the school, and further comprising detecting entering and exiting events based on image data captured by surveillance cameras, determining whether identification information corresponding to the detected entering and exiting events was received from the readers, and generating alerts in response to determining that no corresponding identification information was received.
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- Primary Examiner:
Blount, Eric
- Attorney, Agent or Firm:
HoustonHogle LLP
- Accession Number:
edspgr.10586436
Processing Request
No Comments.