with IT oversight to maintain security and compli- ance. The best results come when IT, transportation and operations work as partners to tailor the plat- form to the district’s unique needs.” Clovis Unified School District in California pur- chased its camera system from Verkada Solutions off a piggyback system rather than an RFP, noted Director of Transportation Steven Mirelez. A school district spokesperson added a California Multiple Award Schedules (CMAS) contract is a procurement vehicle administered by the California Department of General Services (DGS) that allows California state and local agencies—including school districts—to purchase products and services from pre-approved suppliers at competitive prices. “The state essentially conducted the competitive bid process,” the spokes- person noted. Clovis’ Chief Technology Officer Raj Nagra added the district was looking for a reliable system to pro- vide consistent video footage without having to wait for the bus to come back to the yard.
Video Considerations Manish Walia, assistant vice president of engineering
for Audax Labs, is leading the Beacon Mobility project and specializes in video analytics. The two companies are working together to expand AI capabilities with video cameras, looking at student behavior moni- toring, stop-arm violation detection, driver behavior analysis, student tracking of entry/exit, and road conditions and traffic monitoring. Walia noted that AI models are in the testing phase. He noted that Audax Labs footage is stored locally
on the edge device for short-term retention and offline scenarios. Walia noted that incident clips and metadata (passenger count, GPS, alerts) sync on the open source PostgreSQL database and, cloud storage is used with defined custom retention period. He said data can also be stored on premises or using a hybrid network and video is automatically archived or deleted per the district’s policy. He added that vid- eos are encrypted using AES-256 encryption while stored locally and data is encrypted in transit using TLS 1.2 or higher during upload to the cloud. Meanwhile, Aspen’s Mahaffey noted duration of and accessibility to video storage are managed di- rectly within the Motive platform, allowing directors to configure how long footage is stored and how far back it can be retrieved. She said once video is downloaded, its subse-
quent storage and retention policies and procedures adhere to the overall district policy. For incidents
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