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In this paper a system for increasing children’s safety is proposed. The focus is on the daily route from home to school and vice versa, assuming the use of school buses. IoT paradigm is exploited together with different localization techniques i.e. RFID and GPS, in order to design a solution for parents willing to make certain of their child’s following the main to school or home, i.e. taking the school bus and entering school or leaving school and entering the school bus. In this paper the applicability of RFID technology efficient tracking capabilities is tested in children’s tracking and monitoring during their trip to and from school by school buses. The proposed solution is discussed in terms of technologies and architecture and the first prototype is presented.

}  In this paper the applicability of RFID technology efficient tracking capabilities is tested in children’s tracking and monitoring during their trip to and from school by school buses.

}  The proposed solution is discussed in terms of technologies and architecture and the first prototype is presented.

Especially everyday objects that are readable, recognizable, addressable, and/or controllable via the Internet, via RFID, or other means. Combining different developments will build an “Internet of Things” that enables interaction of intelligent systems with the real world. Based on IoT, RFID, and cloud computing technologies, our project is designed to guarantee the children security protection, focusing on the security on the school route category. We built a system that uses such types of information to alert parents when their child is moving by school bus. The system generates alert, managed by a backend system, when the child enters and exits the school bus. The same mechanism is followed when the child leaves the school, taking the school bus and approaching home. With this information the system can inform parents about their child’s movements and definitely his security. In this paper we only present the children tracking process while they are in the school bus, indeed the children’s movements prior to entering and after exiting the school bus is not covered. Nevertheless, the same monitoring solution can be exploited for children’s entering and exiting the school, allowing for a better safety check. It is worth noting that the chosen technology is also dependent on the idea of maintaining as low as possible the overall costs in order to make the solution affordable for municipalities and parents and also it has a SOS button if any emergency condition the buzzer will get on in the module and also send the in the website for the parents.

Hardware:

·        Arduino Uno

·        RFID reader module

·        GPS

·        Switch

·        Buzzer

·        Wifi module

Software:

·        Arduino IDE

·        Blynk

·        Embedded C