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“Digital was relatively new back then, and it was very expensive. Now, the expense has come down, and the technology has made leaps and bounds.”
Rich Skibitski, Wayne Township (N.J.) Public Schools
“It has all come to pass,” Scott said. “Tere are
still some analog systems out there, but the only reason a school district would still have one is a lack of funding to take the step to digital.” Wireless video surveillance is defined as
historical or real time. Historical video is viewed only after the bus returns to the bus yard and the video is downloaded. Real-time wireless video can be viewed as events unfold, with a 10- to 12-second delay. Scott and Beard both said very few school
districts currently have the fiscal resources to install real-time wireless. Still, Jetha said the future of on-board video technology involves real-time information and access from any device, where it it or the user is located. Survey results published in November by Seon
found rising demand among 300 participating school districts in the U.S. and Canada for live video streaming as well as for vehicle and student tracking. "When a student on goes missing, a bus is
involved in an accident or (it) is late arrriving at a stop school transportation staff need to assess the situation and get information immediately," said Jetha. "As cellular data costs and decline bandwidth increases we anticipate increased
adoption of these technologies." She added that the integration of live tracking,
routing and video with vehicle location via a single, web-based view is "the next logical step" to providing true, real-time data. Te experts said wireless systems are a step down
from real time, but still a good investment in the long run because the ability to download the system using WiFi eliminates the hours previously spent manually removing hard drives and transporting them to secure locations for viewing. Another benefit is the archiving capabilities of a digital system. With analog, officials had to search through hours of tape to find the incident in question. With digital, the bus driver pushes a panic button that is programmed to retrieve a time frame a few minutes before the incident and a few minutes after to be saved to a clip instead of using the entire tape. For now, wireless surveillance systems will
continue to gain popularity until the price of real- time systems comes down. “Wireless costs more but it is more reliable and
today it’s the cheapest it’s ever been,” Beard said. “Like any new technology, it keeps coming down in cost.”
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