Focus On Safety
ADDITIVES ARTIFICIAL
NARA can be used as a cost- and time-saving tool for businesses with large fleets.
conclude fault claims settlements within 72 hours and boasts of “proven claims savings on average of £2,000 for each collision detected”. The latter is said to be based on a 7,000-vehicle UK supermarket fleet, which generated an alleged £20m saving.
It can also be applied to just about any kind of vehicle you might encounter on a fleet, even down to the very smallest. “Because it’s all cloud based, I can take the footage from an HGV, from a light commercial vehicle, from a car, or from an e-scooter, and analyse all of that on the platform,” says Morriston, “it works with any kind of vehicle and any kind of camera. We
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can take third party footage if needed and analyse that post the event as well.”
The safety benefit is the speed at which the tech can alert HQ and provide supporting footage if something bad has happened. “It could also be from a duty of care safety perspective,” adds Morriston, “it may be a serious issue, and the driver might be in a ditch.” The firm is also trumpeting the
system’s “device agnostic” nature. That means it can process video feeds from just about any connected camera, and you don’t have to be an existing VisionTrack customer to buy into it.
When asked about the AI’s margin
for error, Morriston admits that it is “never perfect,” but claims NARA, “started at about 97% accuracy, and within less than six months, we got that up to about 98%”. The argument is that a human performing the same function would go cross-eyed long before the tech.
The company didn’t tell us how much NARA costs when we asked, and such advanced tech is unlikely to come cheap. Morriston admits it isn’t aimed at the smallest operators but says it is also not reserved for gigantic fleets. He suggests that those with a history of poor driving would benefit most.
“From a prevention perspective, anybody would benefit from a camera, regardless of the scale of the organisation. Coming back to NARA… there’s a valid point there that, if I only have five vehicles that only generate one or two events per week, then yes, you could say that that’s a little bit more manageable.
“But as soon as you get to 50 to 100 vehicles, especially if they are being driven badly, then you’ve now got to watch a lot more videos. I think the benefits kick in quite quickly, even with fleets of 50 or so, depending on how badly they are driven and on how critical an insurance claim is.”
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