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Onboard video systems provide valuable legal evidence and a crucial eyewitness back up for bus drivers who follow the rules
WRITTEN BY ERIC WOOLSON
nce considered a means to mod- ify student behavior, at best, or capture proof of unruly conduct, onboard video systems are deliv-
ering a gold mine of data. Still, as more school districts and transportation contractors have employed video systems in recent years, the challenge for many has been how to efficiently and effectively use that captured information. Rob Scott, vice president of sales and mar- keting at 247 Securities, Inc., acknowledged the drawback of early generation systems still in use by thousands of districts across the country, name- ly their reliance on systems that require personnel to physically board the bus to retrieve video. “Someone has to go out to the bus in the
yard, pull the hard drive, review the video and then maybe create a video clip. Depending on the system, they have to get that clip onto a disc or a flash drive and then transport it to an- other place,” Scott said. “All that takes human resources, time and money. Ten the person on the other end has to have the knowledge and tools to open it up and use it. Tat’s been going on for years.”
44 School Transportation News • MARCH 2016 Curtiss Routh, vice president of sales at
REI, said several years ago, video experts began realizing that physically pulling hard drives from school buses was becoming an outdated solution because of the increased pressure on schools to respond quickly to accusations and incidents. As a result, “Te demand for our Wi-Fi
DVRs and A.R.M.O.R. software has grown tenfold over the last 18 months as schools see the value in a lot based Wi-Fi solution for their fleet,” he added.
Routh stated the upfront cost to a school in setting up a lot-based, Wi-Fi system and procurement of Wi-Fi-ready DVRs is quickly offset by increased employee efficiency and response time when important events occur. “Because REI engineers our systems to be
backward compatible, our customer base can make a smaller investment than their peers to upgrade current systems to a wireless solution,” Routh said. “While a lot-based, Wi-Fi solution speeds up video retrieval and sharing, that’s only a small part of what a lot-based solution can do for a school district.”
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