02.10.2007
The way to stop school wars

- Our Company provides easy to use electronic warning system to schools, which informs the parents with the help of SMS, when their child comes to school and when he leaves it. This system based on biometrical auditing facilities. When pupil comes to school, he puts his finger on the scanner and the system recognizes him by the fingerprints in two seconds and sends the signal to his parents' mobile automatically. In such a way, they always know where is situated their child.  The system "Sonda LAB" is a combination of network engineering of the IBM Department and recognizing algorithm of the Sonda Company from Miass, which is famous in the World.
EFT was tested in the Samara Airport, at the access control of VIP-passengers, which didn't want to pass an inspection.
We have come to an agreement with the leadership of Chelyabinsk Lycee № 31 that the testing will be done in it. 
Everything is ready to be started. At the present time we are checking (on the basis of 1, 5 thousand children) if the system overloading may happened during half an hour time, when children are coming to school.
The price of installation is not high. There will be needed funds for the scanners and maintenance with sending SMS using the operator. According to our calculations, an every month payment will be about 150-200 rubles in a month for each pupil.
We have talked to all the parents and no one from them tell against of it. We give to school a tool, which can substantively help it in security sphere.
We have some other suggestions of children defense in educational institutions.
For example, there are many textual systems, which can be used in play form in the computer classes. In that way it is possible to determine the child tendency for one or another motion. There is a line of programs, which can inform about a pupil interest to drugs and violence with high probability. At this point a large sphere of action is opening for the school psychologists. We have agreed with the psychologist faculty of the South Ural State University, to create and realize such monitoring in educational institutions.

Igor L. Kaftannikov, the Director of Sonda LAB Ltd.

An interview for the newspaper "Arguments and Facts"