Thursday 27 September 2012

The benefits of Plug & Play mobile video cameras for your fleet
Truly flexible mobile video camera solutions with great savings
We are seeing a growing trend in the school bus transportation market with more and more Transportation Directors switching from the traditional fixed big black box DVR to the flexible plug & play solutions now available on the market.

The traditional mobile DVR is quite large and is usually located under the drivers seat. The cameras are then positioned onto the bulkhead and require fixed wiring behind the bulkhead panels. This adds extra installation costs from $150 - $250 per vehicle. Access to the DVR is difficult since it is located under the driver seat and makes collection of the video data extremely difficult. The DVRs themselves that are offered in the school bus market are based on old technology and firmware and do not capitalize on consumer electronics which have economies of scale savings and the lastest High Definition quality video. Because the DVR is fixed and so are the cameras it means that you have to purchase a system for every vehicle, which gets extremely expensive when these systems start from $1000 - $$2500

Plug & Play mobile video surveillance cameras offer Transportation Directors a number of key benefits. They have High Definition video quality so you don't need as many cameras on a school bus. They can be powered either by the cigarette power socket or wired to the battery so moving them to other vehicles is extremely easy. With different mounting options available you can install bulkhead mounts in every vehicle and move the camera units to vehicles you want to monitor. This means great savings. With solutions using SD Cards, with no moving parts and built into the camera itself you can easy take the SD Card out and view the footage on a PC. Also with cameras with built in screens you can actually see where the camera is pointing and make adjustments as required. With solutions starting from $295 Transportation Directors have a real flexible solution that fits their budget requirements.


tt-i offers the latest in plug & play mobile video surveillance cameras that have High Definition video, GPS, speed, location etc

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Friday 14 September 2012

What School Bus drivers have to put up with

  

What School Bus drivers have to put up with


School Bus drivers have a tough job. Unfortunately our little Angels get upto all sorts when on a bus, from fighting, vandalism, bullying etc. Not only that the driver has to deal with angry parents who believe every word their little Angel tells them, without knowing the facts. The video above shows a parent not happy with her child being hit by another and takes matters into her own hands.

Video cameras can protect the driver as hard evidence shows what actually happened and can support the drivers actions.

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Drivers on Cell Phones


Drivers on Cell Phones

Its become a way of life these days that people seem to be compelled to answer a cell phone call, a text or a tweet as soon as they receive it, even if they are driving a vehicle at the time. This dangerous practice continues to happen every day even when new laws have been introduced, fines and driver training courses highlighting the issues. Drivers not only put themselves at risk but their passengers i.e children or passing pedestrians or oncoming drivers. 

How can this driver behaviour be changed. Drivers will continue using cells unless they get caught and their jobs are at risk. Onboard cameras capture the act, now Transportation Directors and Fleet owners have the evidence that shows the driver in the act and as a result take the appropriate action.

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Tuesday 11 September 2012

School Bullying

School Bullying

As every parent and School district knows school bullying is a complex and difficult issue to resolve. Bullying comes in many forms and with the internet it takes on a whole new dimension from the physical to the verbal abuse which is now shared among their groups online.

Schools have a difficult task of stamping out bullying because the grounds can be large and a lot of the activity goes beyond the school gates i.e bus stops, on the bus and walks home. However, the school bus can help identify bullies by having mobile video cameras installed and it can be done for under $300. Parents and School heads can actually see what is going on and work together to educate and change the behaviour before it gets out of control and escalates.

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Thursday 6 September 2012

School Bus - How to choose a Mobile Video Surveillance Camera

How to choose a Mobile Video Camera system?


There are so many options from numerous mobile DVR manufactures out there on the market it is difficult to know what to look for. This post is giving you a few pointers which you need to consider before making a budget choice.

Lets start with Why? what are you hoping to achieve once they are installed. This seems a simple question but the technology is now built into some solutions to do more than just video capture, they can now be used for some degree of fleet management. The under lying question of budget and level of resources you have to support the solution also play a huge part in the decision.

So ask yourself this

1. Why? what are you wanting to achieve, is video all you want? do you want historical GPS data, Live GPS data (requires a cell network plan - extra cost) speed, wi-fi for connecting and downloading (extra costs in building wi-fi network in your yard and data storage onto servers etc, and training staff to support it?

2. How many cameras do you think you need, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc

3. Do you want standard video quality (bit graining) or High Definition (image is really crisp and can be zoomed into with out losing quality)

4. Do you want a camera system to be fixed and wired permantely into the bus? or have the flexibility to move the camera within the vehicle, or to any other bus within minutes without incurring any installation cost

4. Do you have budget (team) to install the cameras (tradition camera systems wired into the bulk head costs an additional $150 -$250 per vehicle) Plug & Play systems cost nothing to install

5. Ease of use - if you want just to capture video, and your happy with that and you don't have trained PC staff etc or much time then you need a simple solution that works. Their are a number of solutions from 2 camera systems built in with a lens pointing to the front and rear of the vehicle. The issue with these solutions is that they are only standard video resolution, difficult to point the lenses other than straight up and down. Or you use a Plug & Play solution that offers High Definition, can be positioned anywhere, built in GPS (no fee) shows speed and braking and yet is really easy to use.

6. Budget - do you have money to install the whole fleet or looking to buy a number per year. What happens to buses rouets who have issues and don't have a camera, with fixed systems you can do nothing, with Plug & Play just move a camera onto that vehicle within minutes and monitor whats going on. There is no reason that you have to play such high prices for DVR's anymore, manufactuers have been gauging the customer for years with old technology. Look for solutions that uses consumer technology - which is high quality and has volume reductions from the millions of chips and circuits sold in devices and leverage this benefit into your requirements. Would you pay $900-$1200 for a video camera for yourself these days...no....do you question the reliability of the technology no, do you expect to buy High Definition....yes as standard. So why buy old DVR technology for your buses...because most manufactures have not invested in HD,

7. Support - You run a complex operation, yes you need quality support. You should not buy solutions from the internet just becuase you have limited budget (a). You do not know whether the product is poor quality (b) you have no support to call if you have a question or need any help ...there are now new manufactuers in School Bus market who offer quality solutions and support

Anyway, if you have any questions, or comments then just send them over and I'll answer them for you.

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