By the Numbers
Validated across 211 controlled field trials under real-world conditions — day, night, rain, and direct sun.
Rigorous testing across diverse lighting, weather, and road conditions.
Bulk pricing available for district-wide deployments.
From violation detection to audible buzzer alert — faster than a human reaction.
Recognition & Validation
Proven at every level.
INNOSpark Pitch Competition
Placed top 10 internationally out of 875 competing teams. Selected for virtual finals, competing against submissions from across the globe.
Blue Ocean Strategy Competition
BusGuard's market strategy recognized among the top 250 submissions globally, validating the go-to-market approach and uncontested market positioning.
Diamond Challenge Semifinalists
Selected as semifinalists in the Diamond Challenge, one of the most competitive high school entrepreneurship competitions in the world.
VCEE Lean Pitch
Finished top 6 in the state at the Virginia Council on Economic Education Lean Pitch competition, recognized for business model clarity and market fit.
Henrico Innovation Challenge
Awarded 2nd place at the Henrico Innovation Challenge, demonstrating technical innovation and real-world impact in the district's flagship competition.
Violation to alert.
In under 200 milliseconds.
Three discrete steps. No human intervention required.
Camera Detects Violation
Computer vision continuously monitors the stop arm and surrounding traffic. When the arm extends and a vehicle approaches, the system initiates analysis.
System Confirms Threat
The ML model validates the true positive in under 200ms, filtering out false positives from parked cars, cyclists, or other non-threatening movement.
Buzzer Alerts Students
An audible warning fires immediately through the onboard buzzer, and the incident is timestamped and logged for district reporting and compliance.
The stack behind the safety.
Custom-trained detection model
Computer Vision Core
Our proprietary computer vision model is trained specifically for stop-arm violation scenarios — accounting for bus geometry, arm extension angles, and vehicle trajectories. Achieves 95.3% true positive rate under real-world field conditions.
Built for bus environments
Hardened Hardware
The BusGuard unit is housed in a weatherproof enclosure rated for school bus mounting conditions — temperature extremes, vibration, and moisture. Designed to keep running through every route, every season.
Every violation on record
Incident Logging
BusGuard timestamps and stores every detected incident with full metadata — GPS location, image capture, vehicle speed estimate, and route ID — creating an audit trail for district reporting and legal compliance.
"BusGuard addresses a real gap in school bus safety that districts across Virginia are struggling with. The detection accuracy and response time are genuinely impressive for a student-built system."
Director of Pupil Transportation
Henrico County Public Schools
Simple, transparent pricing.
No subscriptions. No recurring fees.
Lifetime firmware updates included.
Standard
Perfect for individual buses or small fleets.
District
Volume pricing for district-wide safety deployments.