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Smart safety system for school buses specified

This initiative aims to guarantee children safety aboard school buses by monitoring bus location, route and stops, in addition to live audio-video monitoring.

The Executive Committee of School Transport released the smart systems specifications and requirements for Child Protection System in School Transport. These were developed as part of the school transport project to implement the standards and legislations of school transportation.

Brigadier Eng. Hussein Ahmed Al Harithi, Director of Traffic and Patrols Directorate and Chairman of the Executive Committee of School Transport in Abu Dhabi, said: “The current phase covers 100 school buses in cooperation with Emirates Transport. Over the next phases, the project will cover the rest of the school buses across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi according to a certain schedule.

“This initiative aims to guarantee children safety aboard school buses by monitoring bus location, route and stops, in addition to live audio-video monitoring, maintaining recordings and monitoring children as they get on and off the buses.”

Brigadier Al Harthi asserted that the initiative includes integrated smart security systems on school busses (such as monitoring, GPS, and bus tracking technologies, in addition to stops, live video and audio monitoring, saving recordings, monitoring children entering and exiting busses by providing smart solutions and services that relate to the “Hemayati” system, and link them to the Operation Room at the General Headquarters.)

The initiative also specifies the roles and responsibilities of partners in setting regulations and conditions that ensure safe child transportation. The initiative focuses on the vehicle, driver, infrastructure, awareness and education all of which ensure integrating projects, regulations, standards, and systems which limit the dangers of school transportations. He also noted that these specifications and standards will help handle school transportation challenges and issues related or stemming from it.

He explained that the new system requires commitment to developing safety and security specifications, proceeding with developing tracking system conditions, monitoring school busses and their integration. Additionally, buses must be equipped with cameras, speed and accidents monitoring system, in addition to biannual evaluation standards for functional performance of the driver. These standards aim to reach the best advanced levels of safety and security. Students’ entering and exiting moves will be registered via a wearable technology that supports near field communication (NFC).

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