School bus GPS tracking for Kolkata schools

From old lanes to New Town

Kolkata schools serve very different neighbourhoods. In north and central Kolkata, buses and pool vans work through narrow lanes where a large bus cannot turn. In the east, Salt Lake and New Town (Rajarhat) have wide planned roads and many newer campuses. The EM Bypass links the south and east, and routes from Howrah cross the Hooghly by bridge. Monsoon showers can flood low-lying streets quickly, and a single waterlogged crossing can delay several routes.

Tracking for buses and smaller vehicles

Because the tracker is wired into the vehicle, the same system can follow a full-size school bus on the EM Bypass and a smaller vehicle in a narrow lane. The school sees all of them on one dashboard. Ask us at the demo about the vehicles in your fleet.

• Live map and ETA. Parents see where the bus is, refreshed about every 5 seconds.
• About-2 km alert. Children in narrow lanes can wait at home until the bus is close, instead of at the roadside.
• Wrong-direction alerts. When a flooded crossing forces a detour, staff know at once.
• SOS. The driver or attendant can alert the school admin from the app.

Attendance without the register

On a crowded route, a child who forgets to get off at the right stop is easy to miss. With an RFID tap on the handrail reader, each boarding and drop is recorded against the route. The attendant's app shows the list of assigned students, and the parent app shows when the child boarded.

A sample set-up for a Kolkata school

A school in Salt Lake with routes to Dum Dum, Lake Town, New Town and Howrah might fit a 4G tracker and RFID reader on every vehicle, add UHF readers at the gate, and add dome cameras on the longer Howrah route. During the monsoon, the transport manager would use trip history to see which stops were missed and send announcements to parents when a route is delayed. We size your own plan at the demo.

Planning around the bridges

Bridge traffic makes routes that cross the river hard to time. Real trip data from the system shows how long each route actually takes in the morning and afternoon. That helps the school decide where to split a route or move a stop. See school bus route optimisation.

Working with Kolkata schools

We travel to Kolkata schools to demo, install and train the transport team. Share your campus location and number of vehicles below, or read about the full school bus tracking system.

Kolkata school bus tracking: questions

Can you track smaller vehicles as well as buses?

The tracker is wired into the vehicle and shows on the same dashboard. Tell us about your vehicles at the demo and we will confirm the fit.

What happens when a flooded road forces a detour?

Staff get a wrong-direction alert, parents still see the bus on the live map, and the school can send an announcement through the app.

How do parents know their child got on the bus?

Where the school uses RFID attendance, the child taps a card on the bus reader, and the parent app shows the attendance.

Do you serve schools in Kolkata?

Yes. We serve schools in Kolkata from our head office in Pune, and travel to your campus for demos and installation.

Schools nearby: we also serve schools in Visakhapatnam. See all cities we serve.

Beyond GPS, do you offer school bus CCTV cameras, school van tracking, RFID attendance for schools and school transport management software in Kolkata?

Yes. For schools in Kolkata we fit the same 4G school bus CCTV cameras and dashcam, track school vans alongside buses, add RFID attendance, and run everything on the school transport management software. Each part is optional and quoted separately.

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