tt-i Launches the new Buddy BX1500 mobile video surveillance camera ($375)

The BX1500 is a technically advanced, simple to operate, dash camera for your vehicle. Using a high resolution color camera at 30 frames per second, an internal 3-axis shock sensor, and built-in GPS, the Buddy BX1500 allows you to record detailed data throughout every drive. Once you have recorded data, the BX1500 playback software enables you to search, view and save the data to your PC...

BX1500 offers to both commercial and private vehicle operators an effective risk reducing means to aid in the investigation process, decrease collateral damages associated with car accidents, encourage safe driving, monitor driving behaviors, and enhance the overall safety on the road.

BX1500, an in-vehicle Event Data Recorder (EDR), makes constant recordings of video footages on a loop as the journey continues. A pre-determined amount of G-force will activate recording and put the latest image to memory; up to 20 seconds prior to contact (full-time recording is also an option).

Files are recorded directly to a SD card (32GB). These videos may later be viewed for surveillance purposes or evidence in an investigation. With integrated GPS, BX1500 records the speed, time, and location for post-crash analysis, providing concrete evidence for clarifying responsibility.

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Teens Bully Grandmother: Caught on Mobile Video Surveillance Camera

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/bullying-bus-monitor-sparks-amazing-compassion-campaign-video-143135242.html

The video is heartbreaking: a pack of junior high boys berating a 68-year-old school bus monitor in upstate New York. She's brought to tears as the students pepper her with profane put-downs about her weight, age, livelihood and more.

"You're not sweating?" one kid asks her. "Why's there water down your face?"

"I'm crying," she responds.

"She probably misses her box of Twinkies," taunts another boy.

Why Plug & Play Mobile video Surveillance makes logical sense in saving money

The traditional mobile video surveillance solutions on the market today involves a DVR (basically a computer hard-drive) placed under a drivers seat and wires running within side the bulkhead to a fixed camera mounted on the vehicle ceilling. The problem with this approach is that the DVR is hard to access if you need to retrieve the video and their is extra cost for installing (ranging from $150-$250 per vehicle). Also you need the same set-up for every vehicle in your fleet which become extremely expensive. Traditional video technology is quite old now and the picture quality is quite low resulting in details of faces being lost, hence you need to install more cameras. Costs for Traditional mobile video surveillance systems and installation range from $1200 -$2400.

Plug & Play mobile video surveillance solutions (from tt-i) offer fleet managers an alternative modern approach to the problem of mobile video surveillance. Firstly HD quality video gives clean crisp images so nothing is vague and allows for zooming in without image break-up. Plug & Play as its name suggests means anyone can install quickly and easily without technical knowledge. It also means you can move the cameras to other vehicles, thus reducing costs and making your budget go further. If needed you can add more than one camera to a vehicle very easily.

Some Plug & Play solutions include built in screens for easy camera positioning, built in GPS for vehicle tracking, speed monitoring, driver alarm triggers on video, time stamps, motion detection, multiple mounting options such as screen and bulkhead mounts, Video is stored on SD cards which eliminates moving parts and is more reliable than traditional hard-drives and further reduces your costs.These high end solutions start at only $295 for a HD 1 camera solution with built in motion detection and go up-to $899 for the new Buddy BX4000 4 camera package being launched at the end of June 2012.

Technology changes so quickly so why invest in expensive video equipment that in a few years will be out of date i.e hardrives, connectors, GPS, video quality, viewing software etc. With Plug & Play solutions you can have the latest new camera technology every 2-3 years and it will still be cheaper than buying traditional approaches that you are stuck with and as time goes by they become more difficult to support and use.i.e no manufacturer in the world makes video tapes any more, CD's (Hard-drives) are being replaced by digital.

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Its time for a different approach

Driver blames crash on sleep apnea, steering problems

TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. — A school bus driver who crashed into a concrete post on Feb. 28 claims that her sleep apnea and bus mechanical problems may have contributed to the crash, the Journal & Courier reports.

Beverly Turner, 44, was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea and had experienced daytime sleepiness for as much as a year before the crash. Initially, Turner blamed her daytime drowsiness on the water pill she had to take with her blood pressure medication, but the crash prompted her to look further into her symptoms.

Turner also claimed to have reported steering problems on her bus to Tippecanoe School Corp. in early 2012, but officials said there were no records of her report, according to the Journal and Courier.

As SBF previously reported, Turner was fired after investigators determined that she fell asleep at the wheel of her bus and caused the accident. Eight students were taken to the hospital after the crash.

To read the full Journal & Courier story, http://www.jconline.com/article/20120506/NEWS/305070004/school-bus-crash-sleep-apnea?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE&gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

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Texting involved in School bus, car head-on

Posted: May 17, 2012 7:06 AM PDTUpdated: May 20, 2012 2:49 PM PDT

By Ashton Pellom

COLQUITT COUNTY, GA -

A teen driver and her 16-month-old baby are recovering Thursday night after crashing into a school bus head on outside of Moultrie.

It's a story we broke in an email alert Thursday morning.  Troopers say 18-year-old Mandy Lynn Davidson was texting and driving on Highway 37, a mile west of Moultrie, when she crossed the center line and hit a school bus head on. 

There were no children on the bus, but several people were injured.

This is what remains of 18-year-old Davidson's Lincoln Town Car after she hit an oncoming school bus as she was taking her 16-month-old son, Jonathan Conner, to daycare.

"This morning I was getting up and I just heard a loud bam! I came outside and looked. Didn't really see anything then I came down the step I saw the car," said onlooker Ken Bailey.

Georgia State Patrol troopers said Davidson was distracted by a text message when she swerved into oncoming traffic and hit the bus.

To Read Full Article: http://www.walb.com/story/18488402/gsp-texting-involved-in-school-bus-car-head-on

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tt-i is a specialist in plug & play mobile video solutions for school bus operators. Our mission is to support initiatives for better student and driver safety. This includes anti bullying and vandalism.

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Funding cuts prompt Calif. district to eliminate transportation department

By Kelly Roher


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