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 [...]
School Bus Stop Arm Violations Resulting in Child Injury and Fatality
Driving the numbers down using technology and a completely new approach Up until now, we’ve faced student safety outside the school bus as we always have. We’ve focused on educating passing motorists on how and when it’s safe and legal to pass a school bus. We’ve relied on drivers [...]
Ramp up your Fleet Safety and Efficiency Game with Wireless Downloading
We were recently joined by Don Carter, Director of Transportation for Port St. Lucie Public Schools in Florida, for an informative webinar featuring hints, tips, and best practices for implementing wireless video downloading for school bus fleets. Bob Burke, Account Executive for Seon, explained how the hardware, software, and [...]
Child Injury and Fatality from School Bus Stop-Arm Violations
How do we really drive the numbers down? We need to face some very hard facts. We are becoming more and more distracted. Our children are, and will continue to be in harm’s way, as we add more cars, more drivers and distraction to our daily lives: unless we [...]
6 Challenges Fleet Managers Solve Using Wireless Downloading
The more often you remove and reinstall media, the more you run the risk of damaging the media. Can you accept that you might find yourself without video backup when you need it most? But not all fleets that use video surveillance systems choose wireless downloading as part of [...]
3 Free Tools (And One Low-Cost One) Small School Districts Should Consider to Manage Bus Fleets
We love talking with transportation staff at small school districts. Sometimes our calls with Transportation Directors get interrupted because of the many hats these Directors wear. A recent example: the Transportation Director had to end a call to start a troublesome lawnmower. At another district, we discussed routing plans [...]
Turn the Danger Zone into a Safety Zone – See New Safe Fleet Solutions at NAPT
Visit us in booth 629 to learn how we can help you change the danger zone into a safety zone. We’re excited about this year’s NAPT Annual Conference and Tradeshow and looking forward to continuing conversations about Danger Zone Safety. NAPT Executive Director, Mike Martin’s recent email to NAPT [...]
Beyond 1080p: What’s best for mobile surveillance?
A sibling wrestling match triggered a shopping trip for a new HDTV this past weekend. The biggest decision: 1080p vs 4K. The sales guy at Best Buy had some convincing arguments for 4K resolution. My vote was for 1080p, being the budget-conscious consumer. My husband was puzzled by the [...]
Back-to-School Safety Zone Checklist
360 degrees of Safety around the School Bus64% of the school-age pedestrians fatally injured in school-transportation-related crashes in the last decade were struck by the school buses themselves. (NHTSA, Traffic Safety Fact Sheet, 2017)Two deadly contributors to these preventable accidents are:1) Driver Distraction and2) Vehicle Blind spotsWhether we are drivers, [...]
Top 3 Reasons to Wirelessly Download Bus Surveillance Video
Yesterday I was running late for a meeting and saved the file I was working on to a USB drive. Or so I thought. Later, when I went to review my work, I discovered it was gone! All those hours of work – wasted. Normally we save files to [...]
5 Things That Should Be on Your Back-to-school Safety Checklist
Are you safety-ready for the new school year? The end of August and the start of September are quite a hectic time for transportation departments and school administration. Summer vacation time take us out of our normal operation schedules, so a quick reminder of important safety precautions is always [...]
Video Integration: The Secret Sauce
Originally published in BusRide Magazine Technology plays an important part in transit operations today. Passenger counting, electronic ticketing, CAD/AVL systems, video surveillance, wireless, and even onboard Wi-Fi help transit agencies deliver a better, more efficient public transit experience. Developing a world-class transit organization means implementing solutions from best-in-class technology [...]
Hybrid or NVR: Making the right choice for a surveillance upgrade
On-board video technology is in the midst of an important transition in image quality, or what I like to call a ‘resolution evolution.’ The introduction of the Network Video Recorder (NVR) into the fixed surveillance market several years ago, brought with it the promise of higher quality images, as [...]
