Chesapeake Public Schools in Virginia uses AI-software enhanced stop-arm video enforcement. But similar technology does much more and holds even more promise for the near-future.
Besides analyzing drivers, vision-based analytics will
soon rate the road—providing patterns in traffic vio- lations or congestion, to support moving bus stops or pickup times to avoid common issues. “The data exists today, and I think where we’re at now
is, how do we pull that together into actionable insights for school transportation,” said Nyberg at Safe Fleet. “I think we’re right on the precipice of that right now. The technology’s there. AI’s evolved enough and is evolv- ing exponentially. It’s really about how do we take that data, how do we aggregate it, how do we overlay things like weather or road conditions, or route maps and then deliver that in real time?” With more data must come better data management. Managers may want urgent real-time alerts for dan- gerous situations, and weekly packages unpacking less-pressing patterns or training suggestions. Angeltrax has its eyes on other innovations down
the road. “We look forward to students being even safer on school buses in five to 10 years with the availability of tech- nological advancements like weapon detection, anger detection, facial recognition and many other products
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and features,” said AngelTrax CEO Richie Howard. “AI detection has room for improvement in all aspects
because AI is learning. The AI will recognize and then learn for the next detection. The speed of the delivery is not a problem because of cellular connectivity,” Howard added. As technology is implemented to automate and
improve existing tasks, there will be learning curves, especially as AI programs learn by making mistakes, just like its human counterparts. “The challenge right now is that we’re in the begin- ning stages of AI, and you might run yourself into a lot of false positives,” said Clint Bryer, vice president of sales for Safety Vision’s student transportation division, referring to the promise of real-time behavioral alerts. “If you’re trying to detect fighting on the bus and a kid decides to dance, the dancing may be viewed as fighting because you’re just seeing body language.” Although it’s hard to predict when AI-enabled cameras
will be the norm on buses, many manufacturers say it’s just a matter of time. ““Pretty soon, pretty much every bid that you get is going to have AI as an option in it,” Bryer said. ●
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