Real-time passenger identification, passenger onboard inventory, location and safety monitoring system

摘要

An automated passenger identification, passenger onboard counter and passenger inventory monitoring systems for maintaining a roster of passengers onboard a conveyance such as a school bus, train, or ship. The system comprises one or more transponders, each transponder embedded within identification means and each identification means assigned to and carried by one passenger. Each transponder has a unique identity code such that when a passenger is assigned an identity means there is created one to one relationship between the unique identity codes and passenger. The transponder in the identification means has an antenna embedded in the card for reception of an identity request via a transmitted radio frequency signal. In response to the identity query signal, the transponder transmits a response radio signal containing the unique identity code of the transponder thereby identifying the passenger. Transceivers for communicating with the identity means transponder being mounted at access points to and possibly is various locations around or within the conveyance.