SmartCam: The Award-Winning Fleet Dash Cam

More than just fancy accessories, dash cams are essential for monitoring your fleet, enhancing road safety, reducing liability, and saving costs. For a full overview of the benefits of installing a camera system in your cars, HGVs, trucks, or vans, check out our guide to the 5 reasons to install an integrated vehicle tracking 4G dash cam.

Yes, with Crystal ball’s Smart 4G truck, HGV, car, and van dash cam the integrated accelerometer will detect significant changes in G-force to generate video events. Such events are categorised into Medium or High Severity, dependent on the level of G-force detected. SmartCam customers can also review all footage captured on their business dash cams from the internal SD card outside of automated events.

Yes, SmartCam integrates Crystal Ball’s FleetTracker solution, a powerful GPS fleet tracking system used by thousands of SMEs and local governments in the UK today. You can log in to our web-based admin portal and view the locations of your vehicles on our mapping interface, play back journeys, set up alarms and alerts on the dashboard, and download historical journey or event reports, amongst other powerful functionalities.

Yes, every fleet dash cam from Crystal Ball has an integrated accelerometer which automatically records videos when it detects significant changes in G-force. Such events are categorised into Medium or High Severity, dependent on the level of G-force detected. In addition to viewing the event-generated footage which is automatically uploaded to the cloud, SmartCam customers can also review all footage captured on their business dash cams from the internal SD card. This means that in the case of accidents you can always access the video evidence you need.

Yes, videos are sent to the Crystal Ball system over the mobile network and viewable within the admin portal and Manager App in real-time, unlike most commercial dashcams available today, which do not support mobile connectivity and only record videos to the SD card on the device.

While SmartCam is not designed to be used for surveillance when the vehicle is parked, dash cams can certainly help with vehicle security. In fact, the dash cam can serve as a valuable security tool for the vans, cars, HGVs, and trucks in your fleet. The presence of a visible camera can act as a deterrent to potential thieves or vandals, even while the vehicle is parked and the camera is not recording.

Yes, Crystal Ball can help your fleet meet the Safe System requirements to comply with the Direct Vision Standard (DVS) for HGVs in London. This includes installing a camera monitoring system, sensor systems, pictorial warning signage on the rear of the vehicle, side under-run protection, mirrors, and audible warnings when the vehicle is manoeuvring or reversing. To find out more about compliance with the DVS and safety permit scheme, visit our Direct Vision Standard London page.

Yes, Crystal Ball has created a single integrated system that covers everything you need to effectively manage your fleet of cars, trucks, HGVs, vans, motorcycles, and more. This system includes the dash cam with optional driver-facing camera system, GPS vehicle tracking, Manager App, and much more to help you manage your fleet more efficiently.

No, our fleet camera systems are 4G enabled and upload full HD incident footage directly to the cloud without any need for Wi-Fi.

Using a dash cam in your fleet vehicles is essential for modern, efficient fleet management. With automatic recording, our dash cams are vital for fast-tracking insurance claims and protecting no-claims bonuses by providing clear, high-definition evidence of incidents. Moreover, real-time video access, a standout feature of our system, allows for immediate response to road incidents.

The benefits of installing fleet dash cam solutions go beyond responding to problems on the road; they can help you prevent accidents in the first place. By recording drivers’ behaviour and increasing a sense of personal accountability, a professionally installed dash cam encourages drivers to be cautious. Whether you’re worried about harsh driving events like rapid braking and speeding or distractions in the car such as mobile phone use, our camera solutions encourage safer driving. You can even use previously collected video footage in driver coaching and training!

Plus, SmartCam is not just a dash cam. Once you’ve connected cameras in your vehicles to GPS tracking systems, vehicle defect reporting, and driver performance monitoring, fleet managers can enjoy total visibility over the entire fleet. It’s a holistic approach to fleet management that can help you boost efficiency across the business!

Our fleet dash cameras have been designed with commercial vehicle fleets in mind. Integrated with a range of different fleet management tools such as GPS tracking and driver ID and analysis to identify risk driving behaviours, these dash cameras are more suited for businesses with fleets of commercial vehicles.