In the past, when an incident occurred, administrators would have to wait for the bus to return to the yard before they could access the video.
Chief Technology Office Raj Nagra says now that they've upgraded the cameras, that's all changed.
"So there's nobody watching the cameras all the time, but when they need to go look at a camera, now they can pretty much do that instantaneously. It doesn't matter if the bus is on or off," Nagra said.
The cameras are cloud connected with artificial intelligence and work through security platform Verkada.
Video is constantly uploading to the cloud, and administrators can look live at any bus from an app or a computer.
They can see where the bus is currently and where it's been.
Administrators can track down video in a variety of ways, whether that's from the bus number, the time an incident happened or the location where an incident happened.
"So if we know the address, like the parent calls and said, hey, something happened in front of my address, they can type in that address at a particular time, and it would pull up every bus that was in that area at that time," Nagra said.
With the new technology at administrators finger tips, Nagra hopes it builds confidence with district parents.
"I hope it just kind of makes them feel a little bit safer, We're trying to improve technology to make things easier not only for our staff, but to make things better for our drivers and our students. Just so they know that we've always had cameras on our buses. We're just upgrading them to actually just hopefully improve safety and make everybody rest a little bit easier at night. At least there's something on the bus if something happens," Nagra.
All of the camera footage is stored for 30 days in the cloud before it is automatically overwritten.
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