Greenville County Schools in South Carolina takes its video one step further by coupling it with Wi-Fi and geofencing technology to gauge real- time early or late arrival of buses.
FOR DAVID POAG, THE “AHA!” moment of real-time video’s clout was driven home to him in a split second that he said never could have happened during his own days as a student. “Our dispatchers sporadically check live feeds. I was monitoring radio traffic one day when the dispatcher called the bus and said, ‘Route 1402, tell the student with the red shirt in the fourth row to sit down now!’”