Fleet Management and Surveillance Solutions for the Student Transportation and Public Transit Industries

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What you need to know about video surveillance solution hard drives and media storage options

What you need to know about video surveillance solution hard drives and media storage options

Expert Advice Series, For New Transportation Directors
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 Storage It’s well understood you need a place to store all the video and audio your system will capture, and more storage provides more available days of video and audio to review should the need arise. However, how much storage is really needed and what about media cost? On top of that, there are at least three types of storage to consider. Should you deploy rotating hard disk drives (HDD) or their non-movable counterparts, solid-state drives (SSD) or solid-state memory cards (SD Card)? Each media has its benefit and use case which we’ll explore. (more…)
Top 3 Reasons to Wirelessly Download Bus Surveillance Video

Top 3 Reasons to Wirelessly Download Bus Surveillance Video

Expert Advice Series, For New Transportation Directors, School Bus, Video Camera Surveillance, Video Management
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 a network storage drive, which is backed up regularly, to avoid these types of hasty mistakes. Those small text and image-based files are usually easy to retrieve, download and organize. But what about video surveillance files? With one bus, it might not be a big deal to go out to the bus yard and pull the hard drive out of the on-board video recorder to access video footage of an incident. Imagine multiplying the bus count for a larger fleet of 50 or more? Now imagine forgetting to replace the hard drive in that bus recorder and finding out after a...