RightSpot Driver vs SmartBus Parent

RightSpot helps Schools ensure that during the dismissal process everyone knows where a student should go. No need for post-it notes or calls. Dismissal time at school has a lot of variables. Every day who should be on the bus is affected by who's absent, parent's requesting pick up, who needs an alternate bus stop on certain days, who will be in an after-school program., etc. Right Spot integrates key information from your Student Information System with transportation data to ensure that bus checkers/attendants and after school activity leaders have current up-to-date rosters that automatically adjust to last minute changes. RightSpot's key features include: 1. Easy, intuitive way to manage and communicate daily or recurring exceptions 2. Manage after school activities and accurately reflect their impact on transportation 3. Handle early dismissals and special events with ease 4. GPS integration provides real-time status of buses and automatically re-calculates arrival times at stops 5. Dismissal reports and stickers to support your process 6. Audit reporting to respond to questions regarding buses or students RightSpot Attendant App provides Bus Checkers & Attendants an easy way to check students on/off the bus in the field. RightSpot provides key information such as who is allowed to walk home from the bus or who are the authorized persons that can meet the student. Students with RFID cards can check on/off the bus themselves with RightSpot's RFID solution integration. Either way, date/time and locations are automatically logged to ensure that all students are accounted for.

SmartBus Parent comes with three different mobile applications that sum up with a whole package of most powerful school bus tracking system which purely provides SAFETY, SAVINGS and SERVICE. • Safety — For increased student safety, track all buses in real -time so parents may be informed of the actual arrival time of the buses, reducing the time kids have to wait, exposed to bad weather or any other dangers. Notifications may also be set up to ensure that school managers receive a message the moment buses enter a no-go zone, or drivers engage in dangerous driving. • Cost- savings — Monitor bus driving behaviour to make sure drivers operate their buses effectively, eliminating unwanted idling, observing speed limitations and not using detours. And because GPS tracking is considered an anti- theft device by most insurance providers, you can save on insurance costs, as well. • Time — Avoid time- consuming the manual assortment of fleet activity required for condition reports and conformity With GPS tracking this information is instantly gathered and documented, which will save time and reduces errors for both drivers and school managers. • Better fleet maintenance — Enhance the regularity and timeliness of preventive maintenance with automated GPS tracking on buses. Know ahead of time when bus servicing is due to reduce downtime and undesired equipment failures, as well as allowing the required time to schedule alternative buses. Accurate usage tracking also means much better guarantee recovery — another expense saving. • Succeed — GPS tracking does not only make a school bus fleet much more profitable; students, parents and government departments also benefit. By highlighting the advantages of real -time GPS tracking, school bus businesses can tender for services agreements much more efficiently, with a higher possibility of winning valuable routes. SmartBus Parent works both with any GPS device or no GPS device. If your fleet is already gathering GPS data or not, that does not matter, you are SmartBus Parent Ready!