Case Study: BusWhere achieves real-time school-bus tracking and rapid deployment with PubNub

BusWhere Helps Kids Get to the Bus on Time with PubNub

BusWhere, built by parents for parents, lets families see their child’s school bus moving on a map in real time and gives schools a portal to send alerts and monitor routes. The team faced a common real-time challenge: “pull” polling would create heavy server load while standard websockets tend to time out and are costly to build and maintain, so BusWhere needed a reliable, managed real-time solution so it could focus on its core product.

BusWhere integrated GPS trackers with PubNub’s Data Stream Network to push live locations and alerts to web, iOS, and Android users and give schools route visibility. The result: real-time functionality went live in days instead of months, developers used PubNub’s console to quickly debug issues, and the company gained a scalable, global platform that reduced upfront development and ongoing maintenance costs while enabling future expansion.

BusWhere

Jack Kustanowitz

Founder and CEO