About this app
LOCATERA is the world's best school bus tracking solution that offers the following features:
- A complete mobile phone based school bus and student tracking solution (Freedom from heavy electronic devices)
- Just download the app on your own smart phone & get started right away (Freedom from complex processes)
- Buy the app for a one-time fee & use it to manage your school transport for ever
(Freedom from recurring payments)
Why LOCATERA?
- Most Innovative: World's first not just in innovation, but in continuous innovation
- Most Simple: Works just with a (cheap) smartphone in a bus! NO other hardware required
- Most Easy: Download the app & get started with your existing phones right away
- Most Child-Friendly: Uses only child-friendly technologies including NFC and BLE (NO Active RFID)
- Most Accurate: Uses both GPS and network in an intelligent way
- Most Secure: Allows only the registered school buses and parents to install and use the app
- Most Reputed: Winner of numerous global awards and recognitions
- Mos Affordable: Pay once to purchase for a reasonable fee & use it any number of years
Benefits for Parents:
- Locate and track school bus (real time) to plan time to drop off or pick up the child
- Receive instant boarding & de-boarding notifications (pick up & drop points)
- Check to confirm if the child is present (or not) in the school bus anytime
- Check the distance of the school bus from the boarding point and the time the bus would take to reach the point
Parents using normal phones (without the app or Internet facility) can just make a 'missed call' to track the bus and the children inside!
Benefits for Schools:
- Easily manage bus attendance (manually, using QR Code, NFC, or BLE-powered ID cards)
- Efficiently manage bus fleet (locate, track or communicate with any bus, student or parent real-time)
- Quickly schedule bus routes (add/remove bus routes, re-schedule routes without any hassle)
- Easily maintain bus reports (Keep record of students’ bus attendance and activity details)
Awards & Accolades:
- Recognised as 'Ashoka Youth Venturer 2016’
- Winner of the 'Google Code to Learn Contest 2015'
- Winner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s 'App of the Month (Best Design 2015 October)' award
- Finalist in the ‘mBillionth Award South Asia 2013’ conducted by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
- Finalist in the ‘Global Discovery Academy Design App Contest 2013’
- First prize Winner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s ‘App Inventor App Contest’ 2012
Experience LOCATERA:
- If you are a parent, or wish to experience the 'LOCATERA', download & install 'LOCATERA - Parent' app free from Google Play Store.
- If you represent a school and wish to experience LOCATERA, download and install the complete app package (Parent app, Attendant app and Admin app) free from Play Store. Get in touch with us to know how it could transform your school-bus-fleet-management.
The Package:
The LOCATERA package includes everything (below) a school needs to get started:
1. Tri-App Package
2. Own Server Space
3. Own Reports Space
4. Implementation Pack
For details, please checkout LOCATERA’s website at http://www.locatera.com
About Us:
With a mission to transform school-transport-management across the world by democratizing the traditional processes and technologies for ensuring utmost security and affordability for students (we call it uberization of school-fleet-management), LOCATERA is brought to you by LateraLogics Innovations (www.lateralogics.com) – a technology startup with a vision to leverage our passion, creativity, and knowledge to create technology solutions that can transform lives.
If you represent a school interested to buy LOCATERA to manage your school transport fleet, or a parent who wishes to recommend / donate LOCATERA for your child's school, please get in touch with us at info@lateralogics.com
App Permissions
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to call into AccountAuthenticators.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows an application to see the number being dialed during an outgoing call with the option to redirect the call to a different number or abort the call altogether.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows an application to receive SMS messages.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to access extra location provider commands.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
