5 Things Every Rail Car Needs to Create a Safer Environment
The moment we get to the train station and tap/swipe our cards at the turnstile, we enter a controlled environment. This is the result of different elements that make stations and trains as safe as possible for millions of daily passengers. HD camera systems, carefully designed pathways, display screens, [...]
How One Vehicle Can Expose Agencies to Liability, Brand Damage
Video surveillance systems can help support an agency by ensuring supervisors operate their vehicles in a safe manner and conduct themselves with diplomacy and tact. Your fleet isn’t fully protected if a portion of it isn’t safeguarded with video surveillance. Whether you operate one non-revenue/supervisor vehicle or several, the importance [...]
5 Benefits of Using Video Surveillance for Driver Coaching
Your video surveillance system can be more effective at getting to the root of an issue than a traditional training approach. Bus video is often used for accident reconstruction, defense of false claims, and overall risk mitigation. At a basic level, you want to see exactly what happened so [...]
The Safe Fleet Connected School Bus
The combined value of a significant number of Safe Fleet school bus safety and efficiency solutions have been brought together to form the Safe Fleet Connected School Bus. The stronger together adage is reflected in this Connected Bus, which leverages the strengths of its separate parts resulting in an [...]
COVID-19 Student Contact Tracing
Know each bus, each route and the contact details of students at risk – in real timeContact tracing information is integral to providing student safety in today’s back-to-school environment. So integral that two international studies have each suggested that COVID testing and Contact Tracing are the key to reopening schools [...]
Are you getting full value from your fleet safety investment?
Get the most from your investment with preventative maintenance and provide the level of safety and reliability your operation requires – day-in, day-out. Electronic equipment that operates in harsh, ever-changing environments can experience wear and tear over time. Keeping your fleet safety systems in optimum operating condition helps you [...]
Safe Fleet School Bus Product Roadmap
Our game-changing Predictive Stop Arm™ (PSA) continues to protect students from the risk of stop arm violations, but will now offer enhanced system integration. We are also building more robust AVL/Fleet Management software with added features such as turn-by-turn software that will redirect based on real-time traffic and road [...]
Whitepaper: A Mission to Keep Students Safe and Change Motorist Behavior
We’ve written about this before; the number of school bus stop arm violations is increasing, and while catching and ticketing stop arm violators helps, it is often not enough to keep kids safe. Motorist distraction is usually said to be the underlying cause for this increase, but some experts [...]
Video Surveillance hardware Country of Origin and the Question of Banned Components
With tariffs, trade wars and concerns over technology, Safe Fleet has seen an increased level of interest from customers on the topic of video technology country of origin and in particular, those products that are sourced specifically from China. Safe Fleet has been diversifying away from sourcing products from [...]
Safe Fleet Technology Showcased on Capitol Hill during National School Bus Safety Week
More than 15 million illegal school bus passes occurred nation-wide in the 2018 school year and with these numbers came tragic consequences. In October, 2018 one Rochester, Indiana family lost three children in just one illegal passing incident. The deaths of the siblings prompted U.S. Reps Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) [...]
Why Cloud Computing might be right for you
Shopping for a video surveillance system and wondering whether a cloud-based system is right for you? Or you already have an on-premise system and are wondering about a possible transition to the cloud. This one image succinctly summarizes why cloud computing might be right for you now, and why [...]
How to Keep Kids Safe From Illegal School Bus Passing Accidents
Roads are becoming busier and distractions more complex, causing students to be more at risk than ever before. A 2019 NASDPTS survey identified 95,000 illegal passes across 39 states in a single day; that's over 17 million near misses in one school year. It’s not surprising that 57% of [...]
What you need to know about video surveillance solution hard drives and media storage options
So, you’re looking to add video surveillance to vehicles and there are so many things to consider. Below we attempt to demystify some of those things.Video Surveillance StorageIt’s well understood you need a place to store all the video and audio your system will capture, and more storage provides more [...]
How Wireless Downloading Can Solve 5 Key Transit Video Surveillance Pain-Points
Transit agencies use video evidence to reduce liability and provide an extra layer of safety and security for bus operators and passengers. Video helps provide a clear and accurate story of events on the bus and how the bus interacts with pedestrians and other vehicles. But video on its [...]
NASDPTS says the Number of School Bus Stop Arm Violations is Increasing
We say, the Technology to Decrease these Numbers is Real and Available Today. The staggering statistics associated with the number of stop arm violations occurring each day are hard to fathom. The NASDPTS 2019 School Bus Industry Survey identified an average of 95,000 illegal passes across 39 states in [...]
TH8: A Flexible Recorder for Your Analog AND IP Cameras and so much More!
The best way to introduce improvements to bus fleets when budgets are tight is to do it incrementally, bit by bit. The TH8 is designed from the ground up to make this possible — it retains backward compatibility with legacy cameras and simultaneously enables adoption of new technology models.As a [...]
