Herald is an automatic attendance system for schools. A cheap RFID sticker on each child's backpack, one long-range reader at the gate — and every arrival and departure is logged the moment it happens, with an instant SMS to the parent's phone.
No tapping. No queues at the gate. No app to install, no smartphone required — for the child or the parent. Attendance becomes automatic, dispute-proof, and impossible to forge.
Paper registers get forged. Tap cards create queues and get forgotten. Parents are left guessing, and schools are left fielding phone calls.
No confirmation their child reached school safely, and no alert if a child leaves early. Just worry.
Endless "has my child arrived?" calls, and no dispute-proof record when attendance is questioned.
Tap-cards and biometrics make children stop, queue, and remember. At a busy gate, they simply fail.
A small, cheap tag goes on the backpack, uniform collar, or shoe. No battery, no charging — it lasts for years and costs about ₦300.
A weatherproof reader mounted on a post detects tags from 2–5 metres away — and reads a whole class walking through together, all at once.
No stopping. No tapping. No queue. The local hub logs the arrival or departure with a timestamp the instant they pass.
"Chidi arrived at God's Grace School at 7:52 AM." Delivered by SMS to any phone — no smartphone or app required on the parent's side.
A live dashboard shows who's in and who's out, with exportable, timestamped logs that settle any attendance dispute instantly.
Short-range tap systems were built for one person at a turnstile. Herald was built for 200 children arriving in half an hour.
| Paper / tap card | Herald | |
|---|---|---|
| Child has to stop and tap | Yes — 2–3 sec each | No — just walk |
| Whole class at once | ✕ One at a time | ✓ Read simultaneously |
| Queue at the gate | Builds up fast | None |
| Can be forged or forgotten | Easily | Tamper-proof log |
| Parent notified | ✕ Never | ✓ SMS in 3 sec |
| Cost per child | ₦250 card | ₦300 sticker |
Buy the hardware outright, or lease it with maintenance included. Parent SMS alerts are optional — and can earn the school money.
If a school offers parent SMS alerts at ₦1,000 per child per month, the revenue is shared. The school keeps a share for collecting; Rysan runs the gateway and maintains the system. At scale, the alerts more than cover the hardware.
Indicative pricing. Final naira figures are confirmed per deployment against current supplier quotes and school size.
Herald sends an SMS to the parent's phone the moment the child passes the school gate — arrival and departure. It works on any phone that can receive a text. No app, no data, no smartphone.
No. Herald uses long-range RFID: a small sticker on the backpack is detected automatically as the child walks through the gate. No stopping, no queues, nothing for the child to remember.
Tags are cheap to replace and bound to a single student record. Unrecognised or duplicated tags are flagged to the school immediately.
Herald is priced per student per term, with the gate reader installed by us. Email rysantechnologies@gmail.com to join the pilot programme and get pricing for your school.
Book a demo at your gate and see a whole class checked in — automatically — in a single morning.