A biometric attendance device built for African schools. Students check in with their fingerprint. Parents get an SMS instantly. Works whether the internet is up or down.
In most Kenyan schools, attendance is still taken on paper. Parents only find out a child skipped class hours, days, or sometimes weeks later — if at all.
Manual roll-call wastes a teacher's first fifteen minutes of every period. Records get lost, edited, or never make it to administration. When a student doesn't show, no one notices in real time.
Shule360 Scan replaces that with a small device at the school gate or classroom entry. Students press a thumb. Parents get an SMS within seconds. Administrators see the data in the dashboard. The whole loop closes in real time — and keeps working when the WiFi drops.
Fingerprint is matched against the school's roster locally — no internet required. Recognition takes under a second.
Every event is logged on the SD card immediately. When connectivity returns, it syncs to the cloud over WiFi or GSM — whichever is available.
"Brian arrived at school at 07:32." A small message with a big effect on peace of mind. No app to install, no data plan needed on the parent's side.
Local fingerprint matching and SD card logging mean attendance never stops, even if the internet does.
Falls back to GSM automatically when WiFi is unavailable. Built for connectivity that comes and goes.
Send SMS directly from the device, or route through the backend via Africa's Talking — whichever fits your school.
Power cuts don't interrupt the school day. Onboard battery keeps the device running through outages.
Loads the school roster directly from a CSV. One device handles a typical primary or secondary school with room to spare.
School administrators see who's in, who's late, who's missing — across classrooms and over time.
Cryptographic signing on every event means attendance records can't be quietly edited after the fact.
Designed at a price point Kenyan schools can actually budget for — not enterprise pricing copy-pasted from abroad.
We're building the MVP of Shule360 Scan now — firmware, cloud backend, and parent SMS pipeline. We're also looking for forward-thinking schools in Kenya who want to be among the first to try it. If that's you, get in touch.
Shule360 is built and led by a single founder in Nairobi — full-stack engineer, hardware tinkerer, working close to the ground with Kenyan schools to make sure what gets shipped actually fits how they operate.