“Our intention with this solution for our cameras was to have access anywhere in the city,” he explained. That entails school buses connecting to Wi-Fi at the transportation facility, using cellular while on route and then connecting again to Wi-Fi access points at each school building during drop-off and pick-up. That has been a challenge. “We ran into the problem that when they would get to the schools, even though the network is the same network, because of the different IP address it would see [the attempted connection] as a threat,” he con- tinued, adding the issue is with the school district firewall. “We’re currently working through that.” The temporary solution is to only access videos at the transportation facilities via Wi-Fi. Progress has been slow, thanks to the COVID-19 slowdown that Samora said the district is just now emerging from. That led to the following recommendation. “Take your advice from somebody technical. Pull tech-
nical teams together and have them make promises that are realistic,” he shared, citing the importance of working closely with the school district’s IT department to man- age expectations and hold all parties accountable. Phase three is expected to be the incorporation of
live video from Samsara’s AI-enhanced driver coach- ing cameras, which Denver currently only uses in its white fleet vehicles, with the existing Safety Vision school bus cameras. Currently, the district has a forward-facing camera
out the front windshield that Samora said he would like replaced by the Samsara system that views the road and the driver. The four Safety System cameras would record footage of the stairwell, from the rear forward, the forward to the rear, and in the middle of the school bus. Next, Samora said he’d like to take AI to the next level
by using his camera system to predict other risk factors, such as bus aides working with students during routes. “I’m looking for a company that can provide me data
on a possible [paraprofessional] striking a student,” citing a desire to avoid incidents like those that have occurred recently in neighboring school districts. He added that he would be interested in creating
personal space boundaries around students and staff, similar to a geofence, for detecting when a normal action crosses the line to something improper or downright illegal—the difference between an aide handing a child a tablet and the aide back-handing the child, or proper child safety restraint securement and inappropriate or illegal touching. “Instead of me having to go through hundreds of hours of video, I can actually get a report that says the risk factor on this, if we said the risk factor is zero to 10, is a seven and a half. And that’s not acceptable. I’ve got to look at this, get a set of human eyes on it,” added
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