The world of professional driving is unpredictable, requiring drivers to be alert and vigilant at all times to stay safe. Ensuring the safety of your fleet drivers and the drivers on the roads around them is imperative to sustaining your operations in the long term. AI-powered smart 4G dash cams like Crystal Ball’s SmartCam are revolutionising the way in which drivers navigate the roads while enabling fleet managers to keep them safer while they’re behind the wheel.
These dash cams go far beyond simply recording road behaviours and incidents. They use advanced artificial intelligence to provide drivers and fleet managers with real-time alerts, allowing drivers to react rapidly and safely to avoid potential hazards and keep themselves and their cargo secure.
In this article, we will explore how an AI dash cam like our SmartCam uses AI technology to prioritise driver safety on the roads. We will also delve into how your AI dash cam can provide real-time alerts to protect talent and shipments alike and how it can optimise fleet management at every level.
Understanding the Inner Workings of the Smart AI Dash Cam
To understand how smart 4G dash cams keep drivers safe, it’s important to understand how their key feature—artificial intelligence software—operates. The AI technology used in dash cams, like SmartCam, essentially works as a form of facial recognition software. Together with inward-facing dash cams, it observes drivers in the cab in real time and allows fleet managers to do the same.
This AI dash cam technology can detect a wide range of driver behaviours and habits, ranging from drivers using their phones while driving to drivers falling asleep on the roads, becoming distracted, or failing to keep a watchful eye on the road. This constant driver monitoring benefits fleet management and drivers in a number of key ways.
For instance, the AI system can automatically alert the driver if it notices them falling asleep, or send a warning when they are using their phone on the road to discourage potentially dangerous actions. It can also notify drivers when they are speeding, accelerating too quickly, taking excessively sharp turns, or braking too rapidly, all actions which can increase the risk of a collision. It can even notify drivers when they are idling or distracted while in high-risk areas, helping to minimise the potential risks of hijacking and scams.
Exploring Driver-Facing Dash Cams
Crystal Ball’s SmartCam 4G dash cams come with optional driver-facing cameras for various fleet vehicle types. As mentioned above, these driver-facing cameras work together with advanced AI dash cam technology to track and assess driver behaviour, record dash cam footage, and provide fleets with a range of advantages.
One of the most notable benefits of these cameras is that they provide additional evidence which can be used to determine accurate liability in the event of a road incident. Inward-facing cameras can prove if a driver was paying attention, was distracted, fell asleep, or otherwise played a hand in causing an accident on the road. Likewise, this detailed footage can help to clear a driver’s name if they were using safe driving habits and were fully alert at the time of the incident.
Inward-facing dash cams can play a role in improving drivers’ behaviour, too. Drivers who are aware that they are being monitored in real-time may be more motivated to adopt safer driving habits – and eliminate risky habits such as smoking or using their smartphones while driving. This innovative technology effectively helps to reduce accidents across fleets and logistics operations while providing peace of mind both for fleet managers and drivers.
If an accident does occur, real-time incident detection will automatically detect sudden changes in G-Force and upload footage to the cloud using 4G. Managers can use this footage as video evidence to assess the situation immediately and send assistance immediately. The instant event-generated real-time footage will provide first notice of loss (FNOL) within seconds, allowing for smooth claim management and reduced costs for at-fault incidents.
Extensive Driver Behaviour Tracking
SmartCam’s inward-facing camera and AI dash cam system also use other advanced technologies to track every aspect of a driver’s behaviour on the roads. Our dash cams don’t just monitor driver performance and safety alone; they use tools like accelerometers to track speeding, tight cornering, rapid acceleration, braking, idling, and erratic behaviour, providing real-time alerts to drivers and fleet managers when these actions could place drivers and vehicles in jeopardy.
Our intelligent AI dash cams use this wealth of data to calculate individual driver scores for each driver in your fleet. Plus, they provide league tables and reports for easy analysis by your management team. The reports can, in turn, be used to tailor precise and effective driver training programmes that help keep existing employees and trainees safer in the future.
Additional Benefits of Driver Performance and Scoring
As we have outlined above, SmartCam’s inward-facing cameras and AI dash cam technology gather a wealth of driver behaviour data to provide instant, actionable insights to drivers, helping them optimise their behaviour on the roads and arrive safely at their destinations.
While this is certainly a significant benefit of investing in 4G dash cams for your fleet, there are other important benefits to be aware of as well.
Reducing Fleet Costs
Our driver performance and scoring system can help your fleet reduce costs by improving driver behaviour. As drivers behave more safely during trips and reduce distracted driving, they can significantly reduce wear and tear on your fleet vehicles, improve fuel efficiency, and reduce your fleet’s overall operational costs.
Our AI dash cam system’s vehicle checklists also assist with timely upkeep and maintenance, streamlining fleet management and further reducing wear and tear and the risk of unexpected breakdowns.
Empowering Drivers
Our SmartCam and the Driver App encourage your drivers to monitor and improve their own driving behaviours. The AI dash cam app can be fully integrated with our 4G dash cams and will notify drivers of the key performance indicators that they should focus on to improve their own performances.
This empowers drivers to take their on-road safety into their own hands while enabling fleet managers to access HD footage and play an invaluable role in ensuring their safe travels.
Comprehensive Driving Trend and Fleet Safety Analysis
Our dash cam system provides up to 12 months of driver trend analyses, driver safety statistics and league tables, offering an invaluable source of information for fleet managers.
Managers can use this data to effectively monitor each of their drivers’ performances in the long term and create meaningful strategies to improve the security of their vehicles and personnel.
Rewarding Ideal Driving
Not only do Crystal Ball’s dash cams and integrated AI dash cam systems provide real-time alerts to keep drivers safe, but they can also recognise and reward drivers for good driving behaviours. Our 4G dash cams encourage new levels of engagement and motivate drivers to cultivate a company-wide culture of safe and responsible driving.
The AI dash data may even be used to identify potential candidates for promotions, assisting in incentivising drivers to adopt better habits with real-world, tangible rewards that appeal to them and their needs and goals.
A Safer, More Alert Future
Crystal Ball’s AI-powered 4g Smart Dashcam systems constitute a significant step forward in innovative fleet safety measures for commercial operations. Our dash cams use powerful AI systems, facial recognition software, driver behaviour monitoring tools, and extensive data analysis to provide drivers and managers with real-time alerts, helping all parties involved to prioritise safety and minimise a wide range of risks on the roads.
Our systems not only safeguard drivers, vehicles and their cargo but also promote the development of a culture of responsible driving across your entire fleet. Using features like league tables, reports and driver performance scores, SmartCam empowers drivers to take control of their own safety and allows managers to craft targeted training programmes to keep their teams safe at all times.
Install 4G dash cam systems with inward-facing cameras in your fleet vehicles to proactively invest in the safety of your most valuable assets.
Crystal Ball’s dash cam technologies and services can make driving safer for everyone. Talk to our team to learn more about how we can help you to harness the power of AI.