EROAD has launched its new AI dashcam, announcing the product at the Fleet Day conference held at Hamilton’s Mystery Creek on Wednesday.
EROAD Clarity Edge offers advanced driver behaviour monitoring capabilities which aims to help fleets strike the right balance between productivity and driver safety.
“The potential for AI to significantly shape our industry is huge. What’s impressive about Clarity Edge is its ability to deliver instantaneous feedback and raise driver awareness in the moment. It has the power to save lives,” co-chief executive Mark Heine says.
In its on-road customer testing, EROAD says that 99% of the events detected by Clarity Edge would never have been detected by traditional telematics.
Heine explains that AI is the logical next step for safety-conscious fleets.
“What we’re seeing now is fleets striving for that next exponential lift in driver safety” and that, he adds, is where AI comes in.
“AI has the ability to detect a far wider range of behaviours such as tailgating, fatigue or mobile use. These are known to be contributing factors to accidents, as well as inefficient driving practices.
“Fleet operators don’t have time to watch thousands of hours of on-road footage, to spot violations. By leveraging advances in AI, we’re able to do that for them. It’s a game-changer for fleet safety and productivity” says Heine.
Real-time monitoring
Clarity Edge is an advanced dashcam solution, with integrated road, driver and fatigue AI packages. By monitoring for risky behaviours and alerting drivers in real-time, Clarity Edge can help to prevent accidents or reduce their severity, EROAD says.
The combination of the three AI packages, together with EROAD’s existing driver behaviour and fleet management technology will enable fleet operators to identify and manage a wide range of driver behaviour, including speeding, near misses, mobile use, fatigue and distraction.
Purpose-built
EROAD senior product manager Soumya Puri, who presented Clarity Edge to Fleet Day attendees, says Clarity Edge is a fit-for-purpose solution, having been built from the ground up as an AI camera, with state-of-the-art edge-compute processing.
“As AI models become more complex, they require more processing power from the device itself,” Puri says.
“Some of the AI-ready cameras in the market today have pretty much maxed out their processing power, limiting future development.”
Puri emphasised EROAD’s forward-looking approach. “Clarity Edge is at the forefront of AI camera technology, with superior processing power. We’re already looking beyond the camera’s current capabilities, towards future integrations and enhancements such as additional peripheral cameras.”
Puri says that EROAD was deliberate in its approach to this latest innovation.
“AI is rapidly advancing, and EROAD is evolving its platforms and hardware, so that customers can leverage those advances sooner rather than later, and in an intuitive way.”
