Requirements for a School Biometric SMS System in Kenya
September 24, 2026
Are you a High school administrator or a contractor looking for a school Biometric SMS system and you aren’t aware of the hardware and software requirements that goes into such a project?, below are 5 requirements that every successful school Biometric SMS project follows.
1. Biometric SMS Software
This is a customized software developed to integrate the biometric device authentication and SMS Gateway to send the preset SMS to parents upon student authentication.
2. Fingerprint Biometric Device
This is the medium through which student fingerprints are registered and authorized when a student enters or leaves school premises
Features includes
- Fingerprint scanning option only
- Both Fingerprint and face scanning options
- Fingerprint, Face and Card scanning options
3. Sender ID
The sender ID is the institution’s name that appears when an institution sends an SMS notification to a recipient. This name is registered to the Kenyan telcos depending on the type of target recipients i.e. if your target recipients are Safaricom users, you register the sender ID with Safaricom only and the same case applies to Airtel recipients. In a case where your recipients are a mixture of both Safaricom and Airtel, you register with both Safaricom and Airtel.
4. SMS Gateway
This is the infrastructure provided by companies such as Africa’s Talking that enables the developer to connect with the sender ID, facilitate sending of SMSs, manage purchase of SMS bundles and provide the reports necessary to document success or failure of your SMSs.
5. A working computer and internet
A working computer with average processing speed (Core i5 and above) and adequate memory (4GB RAM and above) to install the software and a working internet connection to facilitate sending of SMSs to parents.
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