An Android Application of School Bus Tracker Based on RFID Technology

Abstract

Tracking of schoolchildren to ensure their safety is one of the major concerns facing parents and school administrators in the world and Sudan is not an exception. The aim of the proposed system is to eliminate the phenomenon of losing schoolchildren with lower cost, easy to use mechanism, and less human error. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is used to identify the schoolchildren ID and Global Positioning (GPS) technology to provide real time coordinates of the school bus. The system is a Client Server based system where an android application represents the client side and a local host server XAMPP contains the database for the server side. The proposed system is tested using real case scenarios and the results through Google Maps proved to be accurate and easy to use.