Frankly speaking, school bus security is a major concern to all school employees and parents. News accounts appear almost weekly with a story of a child left alone on a school bus for hours. Besides that, drunk driving is often a threat to school bus security. In order to eliminate these dangers, the Swedish system integrator Trinorth came to Milesight for an advanced IoT solution.

School Bus Security Solution

All the strategic insights boil down to the same basic principles – ensure children’s safety. We’ve done everything to deploy connected devices with high stability to improve the real-time monitoring and on-site visibility.

Our customers were in the search of a reliable and seamless cellular communication and they finally settled on Milesight industrial cellular router for its top-ranking performance and high scalability.

The solution integrates passenger counter, alcolock, and industrial cellular router.

The connection between the passenger counter and Milesight industrial cellular router relies on the Ethernet service of RJ45. The DI is used for connecting with alcolock, triggering the SMS/Email alarm, and DO is in the control of the engine heater through SMS.

The driver needs to check his breath with the alcolock every time before he starts the bus engine. If the test result is negative, the bus will function properly. But if he failed, the system will lock the vehicle automatically, together with an alarm e-mail/SMS sending out to the remote server over the 3G/4G network.

Second, with the engine heater, the driver can preheat the bus engine by sending an SMS and makes it start quickly regardless of the cold weather. Speaking of the cold weather, in January the average temperature is 16°C in the far north of Sweden, while at the same time it can be 0°C in the south. (see>>>). And speaking of passenger counter, it is the most critical components of this solution, it helps the school to check-in and checkout the number of children, prevent from stranding a child on the bus, and through Python programming, Milesight router will receive all data from passenger counter, which greatly improved the efficiency.

With the solution adopted, our customers can make the most of their businesses and open up a new era of competitiveness, growth and put the children’s safety at the forefront with a real return on investment.

Key Benefits

• Streamline the Field Operation

With passenger counter and real-time data transmission capabilities enabled by Milesight industrial cellular router, the number of passengers will be sent to the control center over 3G/4G and help admin to make sure loading and unloading are in a safe progress.

• Scrutinized Security

The Alcolock is placed as a safeguard to prevent any drunk driving from happening and maximizes the possibilities of driving home safely. Any positive test result will lead to engine locked and send SMS/Email alarms over 3G/4G to control center.

• Increased Mobility and Efficiency

Remotely preheat bus engine at anywhere, anytime, in spite of the cold weather. By which will ensure maximum productivity of bus.

Featured Products:

UR75 Industrial Cellular Router
Features DI/DO, RS232, RS485
Embeds Edge Computing Capabilities like Python SDK
Gigabit Ethernet Port, 3G/4G, GPS, Dual SIM, Dual Band Wi-Fi complies with IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac
Supports Milesight DeviceHub and IoT Platform such as Microsoft Azure, ThingWorx, AWS, etc.

About TriNorth:

TriNorth is a complete technology provider for public transport, construction and field operational companies for the Swedish and Nordic market. It offers a carefully selected range of products from manufactures belonging to the leading segment within its respective niche. Also, TriNorth offers standard components and systems as unique and customized solutions that are developed in collaboration between the customer and TriNorth. Today TriNorth products and solutions are present in one way or another in almost every public transport bus in Sweden.