A Smart School Pupil‘s Transport Monitoring System

In the present world, there are different technological methods available in order to provide safety and security for school children in the process of transportation to and from school. But these methods and hardware used are costlier and consume more power. At the same time, they are static and not real time operable.Security concerned activities always demand high cost human resourcesand manual operations. In order to overcome the above disadvantages,the proposed model is designed with the embedded systemusing ARM7 TDMI processor. The model uses different modules such as Micro controller LPC2148, RFID reader, RFID tags, GSM modem, 16X2 LCD. This paper presents anautomated system to monitor the schoolchildren who are using school transportation for attending school. The system consists of two modules such as Busmodule, parent module and school module. The Bus modulein this system is used to identify the pupil every time when he or she board or alight the school bus with the help of RFIDtag, which is, placed in identity card. This information is communicated to the parent mobile along with time stamp by using SMS. Daily Student attendance at various pick-up points is recorded and updated in onboard module and also in school module. The parent and school modules may be a simple mobile phone, which receives SMS alerts from the Bus module. Microcontroller LPC2148 is the heart of the project. It reads student ID numbers from ID cards by using the RFID reader interfaced to it. The GSM modem is also interfaced to the microcontroller, which sends the alert messages to the parent mobile phones.Keil IDE is used to develop the source code of the project.Flash magic software is used to load the generated object file into the microcontroller IC. Proteus simulator softwareis used to simulate the entire project before working on hardware.