Badge Tracking System

Most schools for students with special needs, requires that all teacher, therapist, and student activity be tracked to the minute. Therefore, they require an identity badge, card-swipe, attendance and categorization database, to track entry into and out of buses, buildings, and rooms. The system must identify automatically the person, place, and activity. It must time-stamp and categorize the activity, provide security through common-sense judgments (e.g. alarm the same person entering widespread locations within seconds, etc.). Administrative staff will use the system for accounting purposes, to bill school districts for services. Therapists and teachers will use the system to assure that mandated therapies and activities are accomplished (e.g. that a student received three hours of speech therapy on a given day). Facilities personnel will use the system in the event of an emergency to locate all people within the facility in real time. Security personnel will use the system to monitor normal vs. suspicious activity, and provide the basis for alarms and monitoring restricted areas.

This effort will prove useful beyond schools, hopefully used by assisted living facilities to help track elderly clients, or in psychiatric centers, or in hospitals that care for the aging.