We made the list!
Riding upon the excitement of Canada ranking number 3 in medal earners at the recent Winter Olympics, Seon is excited to join the ranks of another industry list. This 2018, we are #58 amongst the Top 100 Biggest manufacturers in Metro Vancouver, according to BIV.com.
What does it mean to be a manufacturer? According to Dictionary.com, the word “manufacture” can be defined as:
- the thing or material manufactured; product
- to make or produce by hand or machinery, especially on a large scale
- to invent
We are more than a video surveillance and fleet management solutions company. We provide safety and security solutions for school buses and transit fleets across North America, as we are one of many brands under the Safe Fleet family.
Commemorating the fact that we made the cut for top 100, we are sharing these 5 people-based and 8 product and solution-based fun facts about Seon:
5 Facts about Seon
Behind our products and solutions, stand great people.
5) We have been part of the Safe Fleet family of brands since 2014. Safe Fleet owns a portfolio of brands that provide safety and productivity solutions to fleet vehicle manufacturers and operators around the world. These brands serve several major markets including: Bus, Rail, RV, Truck & Trailer, Work Truck, Law Enforcement, Emergency, Waste, Industrial, and Military. With over 1,200 employees and 11 manufacturing locations, together we manufacture products and solutions for operator, passenger and pedestrian safety across 500,000 square feet of manufacturing space.
4) Headquartered in Coquitlam, BC our main office hosts a team of engineers, quality assurance, production, software and product design experts, with sales and operations personnel working right across North America including our US office in North Carolina.
3) It’s been over five years since we started our own movement to end bullying, which was adopted three years ago as the United Against Bullying Program by our parent company, Safe Fleet.
2) We are almost 20 years old!
Seon was founded in 1999, and similar to most start-ups’ early beginnings, our early days also involved designing and building our company out of our founder’s garage.
1) As an update to the BIV list, we’re now teetering over 175 employees at Seon. We have over 130 team members at our headquarters in Coquitlam, with almost 50 staff in the US.
8 Facts about Products and Solutions by Seon
8) Seon’s mobile surveillance products help transportation managers’ capture, record, wirelessly download, view, and easily manage on-board security footage, quickly and reliably. Seon also offers fleet management solutions such as live vehicle tracking, passenger ridership tracking, and school bus routing which are integrated with mobile video to give fleet managers real-time information about their fleet operations – for total fleet awareness.
7) 72% of Top Canadian Transit Agencies are our customers.
6) In 2016, we launched our around vehicle monitoring system, inView360 which eliminates dangerous vehicle blind spots that threaten pedestrian safety.
5) Seon is the trusted safety brand for more than 5,000 public transportation authorities and school bus operators across Canada and the United States.
4) We start our range of DVRs at 4-channels, like our TH4C and TH4 DVRs.
3) Seon has sold over 350,000 surveillance systems.
2) We have equipped over 20,000 Vehicles with Wireless Video Downloading.
1) Though we’re #58 on this list, we are the #1 global school bus surveillance brand, and have been for the last 10 years, as ranked in IHS Technology’s Video Surveillance Report. 
Congratulations to the other manufacturers who made the Top 100 list in Metro Vancouver.
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