Use cases
The kinds of things schools use Schooled Automation for.
Most schools start with one or two of the use cases below. After a single term, the savings on the pilot block are usually enough to fund extending the system to the rest of the compound.
Running the gates and keeping a record of who came through.
You can open the main gate from the gatehouse or from the bursar's phone, set the windows when it is allowed to open during the day, and keep a log of every entry that the board can read at the end of term.
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Locking and unlocking doors across the school.
You can lock or unlock doors by block, on a schedule, or as part of a scene like exam mode. The system also tells you if a door has been left open after prep or if one has been forced.
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Lights in classrooms, corridors, dorms, and security points.
You can switch lights by room, by block, or on a schedule. The system also tells you when lights have been left on after they should be off, and when a fixture is starting to fail.
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Water on the mains and broken down by dorm and block.
We meter the mains and put a smaller submeter on each major branch of the plumbing. You can see live consumption per dorm and per block, and the system catches hidden leaks at night by comparing the mains against the sum of the submeters.
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Running the school bell on a schedule, with manual override.
You set the bell schedule once at the start of the term and it runs itself. When the timetable changes for sports day or a half-day, you adjust it in one place. The watchman's manual switch keeps working.
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Electricity on the mains and broken down by block.
You can see live readings per phase on the mains and per-block consumption for each part of the school. The system also alerts you when there is a surge or an outage, and reads from your solar inverter if you have one.
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Kitchen cookers, water dispensers, and tuck-shop terminals.
The system keeps an eye on the cookers for safety (alerting kitchen staff if one is left on with no activity), and runs the cashless water dispensers and tuck-shop terminals with per-student accounts that parents top up over M-Pesa.
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