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To set up student ID cards and enable the Rides Report, contact your Samsara account representative.
The Samsara ID Card Reader leverages Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to provide increased visibility into student and passenger transit systems. Each Samsara ID Card (or compatible third-party RF-based ID card) contains a unique identification number.
For student and passenger transit systems, passengers can tap the ID card to check in and check out when they board and disembark. Samsara reports these events as Tag On time and Tag Off At time for the student.
As part of Samsara's powerful IoT platform, the ID Card Reader enables transit fleets to combine ridership data with real-time GPS and camera data, delivering improvements in passenger safety, operational efficiency, and route planning.
The ID Card Reader then logs and securely transmits time, date, and location data to the Samsara Cloud.
To get started with ID Cards for student and passenger transit, see the following topics:
