Spot Bus
Features
SpotBus Canvas
Experience the best of both worlds with SpotBus Canvas. Our AI-powered routing generates optimized routes with a single click, while manual route creation gives you the freedom to craft personalized solutions. Elevate your transportation operations and deliver exceptional service with SpotBus Canvas.
Revolutionize Route Planning with One-Click Automated Routes
SpotBus introduces a game-changing feature: one-click automated routes powered by advanced AI technology. Say goodbye to the tedious and error-prone manual route planning process. With just one click, our state-of-the-art AI model generates optimized routes, assigning students, drivers, and vehicles, all while considering a range of configured constraints.
Manual Route Creation & Optimization with the Interactive Routing Canvas
SpotBus empowers users with the flexibility to create routes manually, catering to those who prefer a hands-on approach. With our intuitive interface, simply drag and drop stops & pins onto the canvas to craft your desired route. Rearrange stops effortlessly and modify routes as needed, all with a user-friendly experience.
Transportation Dashboard
Real-Time Bus Tracking, Comprehensive Insights & Performance Analytics
SpotBus revolutionizes transportation management with its powerful features. The Live View in the SpotBus Transportation Dashboard enables Transportation Directors and their teams to track bus locations in real-time, estimate arrival times at each stop, and monitor actual vs. planned routes. Proactive notifications keep everyone informed about critical events such as bus breakdowns. SpotBus revolutionizes transportation management with its powerful features. The Live View in the SpotBus Transportation Dashboard enables Transportation Directors and their teams to track bus locations in real-time, estimate arrival times at each stop, and monitor actual vs. planned routes. Proactive notifications keep everyone informed about critical events such as bus breakdowns.
Managing Students & their Data
Transportation Dashboard allows one place to manage all student’s data. Additional it also allows to capture special needs information, parent information. Transportation dashboard also provides various insights & analysis across the captured student data such as attendance. Adding student is simplified greatly, with bulk imports of students or by integrating with other student information systems such as Power School. All of this information is secured & encrypted.
Student Attendance
Our AI-driven SpotBus platform includes a user-friendly Student Attendance system, forming an integral part of our diverse functionality. Students record their attendance via a quick QR code scan upon entering or exiting the bus. This information, along with insightful analysis, is immediately available on our SpotBus Transportation Dashboard for the transportation director team. This feature streamlines attendance tracking while maximizing efficiency, accountability, and security as part of SpotBus’s broader suite of smart transportation solutions.
Efficient Driver Management with SpotBus
SpotBus’s driver management feature provides a centralized dashboard for all driver data, including certifications, trainings, shift schedules, and time sheets. Our platform generates performance analyses, speed graphs, and route information for each driver, allowing transportation directors to easily track and monitor driver performance. Additionally, our proactive notification system alerts directors of drivers with expiring licenses or certifications, ensuring that all drivers are up-to-date and in compliance with regulations. With SpotBus, managing your drivers has never been easier or more efficient.
Vehicle Management and Optimization
SpotBus’s vehicle management feature provides a centralized dashboard for all vehicle data, allowing transportation directors to easily track and manage vehicle information. This includes seating capacity, accessible seats, and fuel consumption, all of which are crucial factors in optimizing route planning and reducing costs. In addition, our platform allows for tracking of video surveillance and tracking device information, ensuring maximum security and accountability. Soon, we will be integrating AI-powered insights into our video surveillance feature, providing even more valuable data to transportation directors.
Forms Management
SpotBus Transportation Dashboard provides a seamless integration with Google Forms, allowing users to create and manage forms in one place. Responses to the forms are automatically registered in the SpotBus Transportation Dashboard, where they can be prioritized and assigned to different users. Customers can also enable a public webpage for the published forms and integrate that with their school website, streamlining integration and eliminating the need for manual linking. This feature simplifies the process of creating and managing forms, saving time and effort for schools and transportation directors. Users can also save their forms as template for quick access in future.
Trip Analytics
SpotBus Transportation Dashboard provides a seamless integration with Google Forms, allowing users to create and manage forms in one place. Responses to the forms are automatically registered in the SpotBus Transportation Dashboard, where they can be prioritized and assigned to different users. Customers can also enable a public webpage for the published forms and integrate that with their school website, streamlining integration and eliminating the need for manual linking. This feature simplifies the process of creating and managing forms, saving time and effort for schools and transportation directors. Users can also save their forms as template for quick access in future.
Seamless Communication
SpotBus’s Dashboard offers a streamlined Communication feature, enabling easy dissemination of vital updates to students or parents via Email, SMS, or App Notifications. Users can utilize customizable templates for frequent messages, making communication efficient and effortless with SpotBus. Users can also schedule these communications for future.
Reporting and Analytics
SpotBus allows you to generate customized reports for route optimization, driver performance, and other insights. With our self-serve dashboard, you can easily download reports for insurance and state reporting, saving you time and effort. The reporting and analytics feature provides the data you need to make data-driven decisions and optimize your operations..
Notifications and Alerts
Stay on top of your school bus operations with SpotBus’s smart notifications and alerts feature. Our dashboard offers real-time alerts for critical activities across the platform, ensuring that you never miss an important event. Notifications are categorized based on criticality, allowing you to prioritize your attention and focus on what matters most. With SpotBus, you can rest assured that you will always be up-to-date and in control of your school bus transportation system.
Role-Based User Management
SpotBus offers fine-grained, role-based access control to manage multiple users and their permissions. Admins can control access to specific schools and data, enabling efficient and secure collaboration among team members. Save time and streamline user management with SpotBus.
AI-Powered Search & Assistance
SpotBus enriches user experience with its AI-driven search capability. Quickly find any information within SpotBus, and save search queries for swift, frequent access. Our AI-powered help guide, accessible directly from the dashboard, ensures prompt and accurate assistance whenever you need it.
Integrated Video Surveillance (Launching Soon)
In our continual commitment to innovation, SpotBus is excited to announce the upcoming integration of video surveillance directly within the Transportation Dashboard. This feature will empower users – from transportation directors to their teams – to access live and recorded video feeds right within the dashboard. SpotBus goes a step further by harnessing the power of AI to distill insights, compile reports, and highlight critical clips from the surveillance footage. This eliminates the need to comb through extensive footage, instead focusing on what truly matters. Stay tuned for this significant addition to our suite of AI powered transportation hub.
Guided Setup and Bulk Imports
Experience an effortless onboarding process with SpotBus’s intuitive, step-by-step Guided Setup. This feature simplifies the setup of accounts, schools, drivers, students, and more, enabling a swift and efficient start. Further enhancing user convenience, SpotBus provides multiple bulk import options and automates data extraction from other systems like PowerSchools, reducing manual data entry and facilitating a smooth transition.
Driver App
Effortless Student Attendance System
SpotBus offers a zero-touch solution for student attendance recording, enhancing efficiency and convenience. As students board the bus, they simply scan their QR codes on the driver’s tablet, automatically marking their attendance. An integrated safety feature alerts the driver with a warning if an onboarded student does not belong to the assigned route or stop, enabling swift decision-making.
Turn-by-Turn Navigation
Our app provides drivers with turn-by-turn navigation, based on optimized and approved routes. Temporary route changes due to driver shortage or route merges are updated seamlessly, ensuring accurate directions at all times.
Driver Attendance System
SpotBus ensures driver accountability with a robust attendance system. Drivers can log in and log out only during their designated shift windows, with all activities recorded and accessible on the SpotBus Transportation Dashboard. Any login attempts outside these hours are flagged for review.
Pre & Post Trip Inspection
To ensure safety and compliance, SpotBus mandates pre and post-trip inspections by drivers. The requisite inspection items are updated on the driver’s app, which must be completed before initiating or ending a trip. The Transportation Director can update these items through the SpotBus Transportation Dashboard.
Driver Performance Analysis
SpotBus supports data-driven operations by continuously recording and analyzing driver performance. Insights and reports include: driver speed in comparison to the allowed speed limit, actual vs. planned route coverage, and stoppage duration at each stop. These reports equip the Transportation Director with actionable data for route optimization and driver performance enhancement.
Immediate Breakdown Assistance
The SpotBus Driver App turns breakdowns into manageable incidents with instant, one-click notifications to the Transportation Director’s team. Supplying real-time information about the bus’s location and capacity, it facilitates rapid, well-informed backup planning, minimizing disruption and ensuring continuity in service.
Parent App
Real-time bus tracking
With SpotBus Parent App, keep an eye on your child’s school bus location in real-time. The feature facilitates effective time management, saves children from waiting in harsh weather conditions, and applies to AM/PM routes as well as field trips.
Personalized Notification Settings
The app offers parents the flexibility to determine when and how many minutes prior to the bus’s arrival and departure they would like to receive notifications.
AI-Powered Chatbot for Prompt Query Resolution
Parents can quickly obtain needed information from our AI-powered chatbot, eliminating wait times associated with manual responses from the Transportation Director’s team.
Assured Security & Safety
Parents can track their child’s location with peace of mind, especially during field trips. The data is secure and private, viewable only by the parents, ensuring your child’s safety and your peace of mind.
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Notifications
Parents receive notifications according to their preferences
Security
Eliminates the worry of parents in terms of sending their kids out and waiting for the bus and gives complete peace of mind as they can live track the bus.
Real Time – No Pooling
App receives the school bus’s location update in real-time without pooling the server. Parents can track the assigned driver’s location.
Set Location
Parents can set their preferred pick-up/drop-off location
View Locations
Driver can view the pick-up/drop-off location of all parents
Live tracking through GPS
Technology at its best, parents can track their kid’s school bus live as it cruises through its route and can see that the kids have reached school/home safely.
School Admin Panel
Transport Managers or school administrators have various tasks including student safety, addressing parent concerns, allocation, and optimization.
Our admin panel is designed to manage these tasks without any hassle.
Dashboard
View your registered parents, drivers, and get statistics about mobile apps usage at a glance
School
Update school address by writing its address. Do not worry! Google maps places API will show up a list of addresses that match your entered address
Drivers
Manage drivers with add, read, update, and delete capabilities. Also, view the real-time location of a driver on the map
Parents
Manage parents with add, read, update, and delete capabilities. Also, view the pick-up/drop-off location of a parent on the map
Profile
Manage the school profile