MUMBAI, India, Aug. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611072186 A) filed by Chitkara University on June 10, 2026, for University Bus Access Control And Monitoring System And Method Thereof.

Inventors include Dr. Amanpreet Kaur; Dr. Neha Sharma; and Kritik Thakur.

The application for the patent was published on August 07, 2026, under issue no. 32/2026.

Abstract: A university bus access control and monitoring system and method thereof, comprising an active identification module including a university RFID card 101 or NFC card 102 and a bus mounted scanner for direct identity verification upon student boarding, a passive presence detection module utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy or Wi- Fi signals to detect a registered computing unit, and an edge processing unit 103 located onboard the bus configured to correlate RFID card 101 scan data with computing unit signal variations and GPS movement data, a dynamic trust scoring module 104 implemented within the edge processing unit 103 and a backend server to compute a real-time trust score based on authentication results, signal strength, route validity, and historical travel patterns, a privacy preserving identifier generation module 105 employing rolling session-based hashed identifiers, an enforcement engine 106 issuing warnings and progressive penalties, and an admin dashboard interface 107 displaying logs and analytics.

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