SmartOBUS

About SmartOBUS Android App

This application will be the easiest way to link between parent and school’s bus. Also, it will include some security and assurance requirement.

Bus driver:
The bus driver is the person who is responsible to deliver children from and from school has a partial access to the system. The access will be to the location and students name only.

The bus driver can view today trips by its details (order, children name, location).
The bus driver can start the trip.
The bus driver can end the trip after delivering.
The bus driver can know the next and previous track with the children name.

Parents:
Parents can access the system after the offline registration at the school. The access also will be also partial but with privileges that allows to be notified by system about pick off and drop off time of their children, contact with supervisor, tracking and knows the expected time of arrival.


Parents can set and edit their location in the system.
Parents can know who is the bus driver and the bus supervisor.
Parents can track the bus on the map.
Parents can send and receive notifications.
Parents can send a notification about his children attendance status (absent, delivered lately to the school and wants the bus to take the children home, picked from the school early).
Parents can contact the bus supervisor.
Under one parent ID can be more than one child, and parent can switch between them, so they can see all the above per profile except the pickup location

The system should be available in one app for Android and iOS platforms and web for branch manager and admin panel

Notifications:
There is more than one type of notification will be sent through the system automatic one that will be related to the certain action, and Manuel one the push by admin. Movement notification, that notification will be sent to the parent when the bus started moving to the home. Arrival notification also will send it to the parents before minutes (admin defined) of reach children house. Notification that one from the parent to the bus supervisor allow the parent to inform supervisor when children be absent.

Chatting:
The system allows the parents and bus supervisor to communicate by chatting.

Tracking:
The system allows parents, school branch manager to track the bus.