Overview

ZPass: Ridership Tracking

For Student Tracking

ZPass was designed specifically for pupil transportation to monitor student ridership in a safe and non-intrusive way. Knowing if and when a student got on or off the bus accounts for a significant portion of calls parents make to schools and is information that schools need to know. ZPass provides accurate and immediate answers.

Just What Schools Have Been Asking For

Zonar has succeeded where others have not by using its patented Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) technology to solve the problem. Students carry a small card that contains passive RFID technology that logs each student's entry or exit automatically when the student pass the scanner located on the bus. ZPass is accurate, easy and affordable.

Load and Unload Process Stays the Same

Customers say it works because ZPass requires no action on the part of drivers or students, other than to carry the card. ZPass delivers the required performance without impeding the normal loading and unloading process. It's a true win/win/win/win for school officials, drivers, students and parents.

How It Works

ZPass: Ridership Tracking

Simple, Safe and Secure

Each student is issued a unique RFID card to carry. Everything else is automatic. As the student passes the ZPass reader upon entering or leaving the bus, the time, date and location is logged and transmitted to a secure database.

Passive RFID - The card works without a battery. The reader does the work so it is safe and low cost.
Low-Power Sleep Mode - Conserves the vehicle battery by entering sleep mode when not in use.

Real-Time Answers

The data is accessed via a web-browser with Zonar's Ground Traffic Control application. For the first time, accurate information is available to answer parent and administrators' questions accurately and cost-effectively.

Web-Based Reporting - Makes it fast and easy to access accurate information.
Student Report - Stamps time and date for all loading and unloading activities by student.
Bus Report - Provides all student ridership data by bus.

Improves Safety and Efficiency

School officials can quickly and easily track students entering and leaving buses and be in the best position to answer parents' questions. ZPass has made student tracking easy, secure and affordable.

Who Benefits

ZPass: Ridership Tracking

School Officials, Parents and Students All Gain

Transporting students responsibly is something school officials and parents take very seriously. A student's boarding or departure status has always been largely reliant on speculation. ZPass provides the capabilities commensurate to the responsibility.

STUDENTS - Provide valuable information when getting on and off the bus.
PARENTS - Take the appropriate action because they have precise answers to boarding status and times.
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS - Meet obligations to parents and district to do all they can to ensure student safety.
TRANSPORTATION MANAGERS - Equip buses with powerful track and report capabilities cost-effectively.
DRIVERS - Provide valuable and accurate information without having to do anything different.
SERVICE REPRESENTATVES - Answer parents' and school officials' questions instantly and accurately.
RISK MANAGERS - Protect the districts from liability by removing uncertainty about boarding status.
IT MANAGERS - Save valuable resources, with no demands on existing IT infrastructure or personnel.

Now student ridership can be monitored in a safe and non-intrusive way. Parents and school officials can have answers easily, immediately and cost-effectively.

New Ways to Save

ZPass: Ridership Tracking

It is Finally Knowable

School officials and parents have been waiting a long time for a solution to the vexing problem of knowing if, when and where a student has boarded or departed a school bus. There is finally an accurate, easy and affordable answer and that answer is ZPass.

Accurate - RFID card-based systems ensures precise data collection. It is the only one of its kind.
Easy - ZPass works without requiring anyone to change behavior.
Affordable - Zonar's innovative approach delivers performance at a price that is remarkably affordable.

You Can't Afford to Go Without

The risk is just too great, now that there is an effective alternative. Think about the time already being spent to answer these calls from parents. It is considerable because the same questions are asked every day, by different parents, about different students. That's why the effective automation ZPass offers gives you a daily payback.

Think About What Is Already Being Spent

Think about how you spend your valuable time. Are you chasing down details and still getting incomplete information so you are unable to satisfy parents' and administrators' questions? It is time to let ZPass help you "know" for sure once and for all.