Conductors confirm every child on and off the bus with one phone. Parents are told in seconds, your school sees every route live, and there is no hardware to install.
Anika’s trips todayAnika is on the bus
7:42 Boarded at CMH Road
Nothing to install
Most tracking systems fit a GPS box, wiring and a SIM to every bus, and often a card reader with a card for every child. With Vainu, the conductor’s Android phone records each child and tracks the bus.
1 phone
per bus. It records every child and tracks the bus.
10 sec
between bus positions on a live trip.
Same day
to swap a lost phone. Revoke it and carry on.
What hardware systems fit to every bus
What Vainu needs
One Android phone per bus
Nothing fitted, nothing wired, no cards to hand out.
See it in action
What the conductor taps, what the school sees and what reaches parents.
How a trip works
The camera only suggests a name. A person confirms every step.
Anika and the children on these screens are examples.
Three apps, one record
The conductor records it once. The school and parents read the same entry.
1Conductor app
Large buttons and plain words, and it keeps working without signal.
Bus 7, morning run
2 of 3 on board
No connection. Recording continues on this phone.
CMH Road
100 Feet Road
2School dashboard
See who is on board, who is still expected and which buses have gone quiet.
3Parent app
Parents are told once the school has the record, never before.
Is this Anika?
Boarded at CMH Road at 7:42. The conductor took this photo.
Yes, this is my childNo, it isn’tBuilt for real routes
Designed around what actually goes wrong on a school bus.
Every tap is saved on the phone and sent when the signal returns. Nothing is lost or counted twice.
Stored only on that trip’s phone. Never shared, never used for training.
Missed pickups, wrong buses and silent phones go to the school and that child’s guardians.
A mistake gets a correction on top, and the parents it affects are told.
Safety rules
The camera, GPS and phone do the fast work. A person makes every call that matters for a child.
Technology suggests: The cameraSuggests Anika Rao
A person decides: Ravi, the conductorLooks, then confirms she boarded
Technology suggests: GPS on the bus phoneBus 7 is at CMH Road
A person decides: Ravi, the conductorRecords which children got off here
Technology suggests: The conductor’s phoneTakes a photo when no face check is used
A person decides: Meera, Anika’s motherConfirms it is Anika, or says it isn’t
Technology suggests: No signal on the routeMarks the record “not yet synced”
A person decides: The school officeSees the label and decides whether to call the bus
Technology suggests: The face checkDoesn’t recognise Chitra
A person decides: Ravi, the conductorPicks her from the list, and she boards
Privacy
We collect only what a trip needs and show it only to the people who need it.
| Data | Collected | Seen by | Never |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face data | At enrolment, with consent | Only that trip’s phone | Shared or used for training |
| Live photos | When a face check isn’t used | Guardians and school staff | Swapped for a roster photo |
| Bus location | Only during a trip | The school and that trip’s parents | Tracked after the trip |
| Trip records | At each boarding and drop-off | The school and guardians | Deleted. Corrections are added instead |
Start a pilot
Tell us about your school. We set up routes, stops and students with your transport team.
Routes, children and how your mornings run.
Routes, stops, students and guardians. Parents get their codes.
Conductors sign in on one phone per bus. Nothing is fitted to the bus.
It takes about a minute.
Questions
One Android phone for the conductor. No GPS tracker, RFID reader or ID cards: the phone records each child and sends the bus position. If your state requires an approved tracking device for a bus permit, Vainu runs alongside it.
The conductor picks the child from the list and takes a photo for the guardians to confirm. The child boards as normal.
Records are saved on the phone, marked as not yet synced, and sent when the signal returns.
The school sends each guardian a one-time code for the Android or iPhone app.
Revoke it from the dashboard and carry on with another phone the same day.
