GMC-130 School Bus Monitoring Simulation w/ Apache Kafka

Our project is a proof-of-concept of event-streaming bus telemetry data using Apache Kafka (Kafka), as requested by our client, Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS). The Kafka event stream is more efficient than GCPS’s current process of pulling bus telemetry data: calling APIs every 5 seconds. Moving to Kafka will provide GCPS near real-time insights into bus locations and speeds, giving visibility to whether buses drive safely and punctually. Our simulation produces synthetic bus data to be passed through Kafka and consumed. It features two UIs for system monitoring and data visualization.