As LightMetrics approaches an important milestone (we turn 2 next month!) and we brace ourselves for the exciting journey ahead, it is worthwhile taking a moment to look back.

Video safety solutions have long been the preserve of big fleets, but with improvements in technology and availability of cost-effective hardware options, it is now viable for a wide variety of fleets to adopt.

FMCSA mandating the use of electronic logging devices (ELD) to track, manage and share records of duty status (RODS) data has the transportation industry in a rush to be compliant before the December 2017 deadline.

In 2012, NHTSA estimated that the annual cost of speeding-related crashes was $40.4Billion, with speeding contributing to one in three accidents and claiming 10,219 lives.

Video safety has been the privy of the largest fleets who can afford the investment, and it is mostly they alone who are reaping the many benefits.

Making use of big data for improving efficiency is the watch word that the fleet industry has been hearing about for quite some time now.

The advances in mobile computing platforms, coupled with innovations enabling AI on the edge, have led to a Cambrian explosion of applications that sense and perceive the world at unprecedented accuracy.

Until recently, video telematics had been focused primarily on one, albeit critical, use-case – be the high integrity system of record around accidents and other critical incidents, driver authentication and in most cases exonerate the driver and fleet, protecting them from liability and punitive damages.

Commercial trucking fleets play a crucial role in the economy, connecting supply and demand.