Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for bus computing systems, for example, for wrong stop loading/unloading. In one aspect, a method performed by a bus computing system for a bus includes: receiving, at a designated stop of a bus route of the bus, a student identifier (ID) from a student ID system when a student enters or exits the bus at the designated stop; determining whether the student is authorized to enter or exit the bus at the designated stop; and in response to determining that the student is not authorized to enter or exit the bus at the designated stop, alerting a driver of the bus, and presenting an override user interface element and/or a cancellation user interface element on the display for the driver to allow or refuse the student to enter or exit the bus at the designated stop.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for student accountability systems. School buses can be equipped with a bus system that executes a driver application. Students carry student identification (ID) systems that identify the students to the bus system, which in turn reports a geographic location to a student accountability system. The bus system is configured to permit rapid boarding and easy usage by drivers. The student accountability system provides a parent portal and an administrator portal to monitor the students and provide other useful functions.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for student accountability systems. School buses can be equipped with a bus system that executes a driver application. Students carry student identification (ID) systems that identify the students to the bus system, which in turn reports a geographic location to a student accountability system. The bus system is configured to permit rapid boarding and easy usage by drivers. The student accountability system provides a parent portal and an administrator portal to monitor the students and provide other useful functions.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for student accountability systems. School buses can be equipped with a bus system that executes a driver application. Students carry student identification (ID) systems that identify the students to the bus system, which in turn reports a geographic location to a student accountability system. The bus system is configured to permit rapid boarding and easy usage by drivers. The student accountability system provides a parent portal and an administrator portal to monitor the students and provide other useful functions.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for student accountability systems. School buses can be equipped with a bus system that executes a driver application. Students carry student identification (ID) systems that identify the students to the bus system, which in turn reports a geographic location to a student accountability system. The bus system is configured to permit rapid boarding and easy usage by drivers. The student accountability system provides a parent portal and an administrator portal to monitor the students and provide other useful functions.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for vehicle inspection and passenger tracking. In one aspect, a portable vehicle data input device includes an electronic display and a data processor coupled to the display and containing instructions configured to cause the device to: display information related to inspection of different portions of a vehicle, receive driver input indicating completion of vehicle inspection tasks, display information related to a plurality of passengers associated with the vehicle, receive input identifying specific passengers as the specific passengers board or exit the vehicle, and update a roster of passengers in response to receiving the input.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking students on school buses. In one aspect, a method includes storing, in an onboard computing device, a list of students associated with respective stops on a bus route, storing, in the onboard computing device, a list of students on the bus, determining that the bus has reached a designated stop, and presenting on a display a list of students associated with the designated stop. As each student enters or exits the bus, the methods include receiving an electronic signal identifying the student entering or exiting the bus and adding or removing the student to or from the list of students on the bus.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for vehicle inspection and passenger tracking. In one aspect, a portable vehicle data input device includes an electronic display and a data processor coupled to the display and containing instructions configured to cause the device to: display information related to inspection of different portions of a vehicle, receive driver input indicating completion of vehicle inspection tasks, display information related to a plurality of passengers associated with the vehicle, receive input identifying specific passengers as the specific passengers board or exit the vehicle, and update a roster of passengers in response to receiving the input.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for student accountability systems. School buses can be equipped with a bus system that executes a driver application. Students carry student identification (ID) systems that identify the students to the bus system, which in turn reports a geographic location to a student accountability system. The bus system is configured to permit rapid boarding and easy usage by drivers. The student accountability system provides a parent portal and an administrator portal to monitor the students and provide other useful functions.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for student accountability systems. School buses can be equipped with a bus system that executes a driver application. Students carry student identification (ID) systems that identify the students to the bus system, which in turn reports a geographic location to a student accountability system. The bus system is configured to permit rapid boarding and easy usage by drivers. The student accountability system provides a parent portal and an administrator portal to monitor the students and provide other useful functions.

Abstract: An original generator generates a sequence of access values that are stored into a longer range communication device. A short range communication device, which can be the original generator, uses short range communication during a programming process to transmit an identification number to enable subsequence access from the longer range communication device using the sequence of access values.

Abstract: A method for distributing a sequence of access codes to a plurality of users, comprising comprises storing a set of sequences of access codes, wherein each sequence of access codes of the set can be programmed for use by a remote access device with an access system of a specific type. A same sequence of access codes is provided to both a first remote access device of a first user and to a second remote access device of a second user.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing key storage and retrieval services to be performed by a service provider. The service provider provides a template to a client and instructs the client to use the template to capture, for each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles, both a vehicle identifier and a key of the vehicle in an image. The service provider stores the image in a computing system, extracts the vehicle identifier from the stored image, and associates the vehicle identifier with a location identifier corresponding to a location where the key is stored. When the service provider receives from the client a request for retrieving a key for a specific vehicle, the service provider searches a vehicle identifier of the specific vehicle in the computing system, retrieves the requested key from the location associated with the vehicle identifier, and sends the requested key to the client.

Abstract: A remote wireless keyless entry transmitter includes a communications interface for connecting the transmitter directly to an in-vehicle network for registering the transmitter with the vehicle access system. The interface is further connectable to a personal computer to load a set of control codes and programming codes corresponding to a vehicle. The transmitter is programmable to operate multiple functions for multiple vehicles, separately or simultaneously. The transmitter can include a transponder circuit, a display, an accelerometer and a key coupler. A wireless transponder is operationally associated with a vehicle security system by physically connecting the transponder to a vehicle data port with a temporary data link and transferring data between the security system and the transponder over the data link to enable subsequent wireless operation of the security system with the transponder. The transmitter can include an audible signal generator and be programmable to respond to a pager signal.

Abstract: A remote wireless keyless entry transmitter includes a communications interface for connecting the transmitter directly to an in-vehicle network for registering the transmitter with the vehicle access system. The interface is further connectable to a personal computer to load a set of control codes and programming codes corresponding to a vehicle. The transmitter is programmable to operate multiple functions for multiple vehicles, separately or simultaneously. The transmitter can include a transponder circuit, a display, an accelerometer and a key coupler. A wireless transponder is operationally associated with a vehicle security system by physically connecting the transponder to a vehicle data port with a temporary data link and transferring data between the security system and the transponder over the data link to enable subsequent wireless operation of the security system with the transponder. The transmitter can include an audible signal generator and be programmable to respond to a pager signal.