Car Dash Cam: How secure is your data?

With car dash cam, all information inside your car is recording and shared on cloud across internet and accessed on apps. How secure is your data with any dash cam system is what we will discuss in this post covering different aspects of data for such a solution.

Few aspects of car dash cam which we already covered,

Why do you need a Dash Cam?

Choosing the best car dash cam for your needs?

Cam Security Breaches?

It is just matter of time, sooner or later it happens if not enough thought given behind it.

To secure consumer data should be first and foremost responsiblity of each company and sooner they realize sam ebetter it is for both.

Somebody’s Watching: Hackers Breach Ring Home Security Cameras

What all Dash Cam Data?

What all data is captured and stored by car dash cam solutions. Once mounted in your cam, your dash cam recording everything happening inside and outside your car. There is lot of personal information recorded and stored and transferred over the wire.

Choosing the best car dash cam for your needs?

Choosing the best dash cam is very tricky, that all depends on your needs. In this post we will cover what all you need to look for before making that decision. We will cover different dash cam features relevant to look for.

We have already covered few points why do you needs a car dash cam,

Why do you need a Dash Cam?

There are plenty of dash cam in market varying in quality, cost and feature list. Below are several criteria to help to choose right dash cam for your needs.

Auto on/off/standby

The dash cam should automatically switch on based on car movement. There should not be any manual interference to operate the cam.

The dash cam needs to be intelligent enough to observe standby for power saving if your car is parked.

Agora powering dashcam live streaming solution

Agora.io, the leading voice, video and live broadcasting platform, today announced a partnership with KENT CamEye, a first-of-its-kind car security device that uses dual cameras to live stream and record everything happening inside and outside of the vehicle.

“We tested other RTC solutions but we needed a provider that could power one-to-many video broadcasting to ensure multiple users could access the live streaming feature at the same time,” said Jaibeer Malik, CTO at KENT CamEye. “With Agora, our users experience reliable, high-quality video and voice, no matter their network connection or location.”

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Amazon AWS enabling car dashcam solution

CamEye is a first-of-its-kind car security device for vehicles and passengers. But it takes the power a highly scalable platform like the AWS Cloud to make this product work as intended.

KENT CamEye is designed and engineered in India, keeping in mind the security needs of Indian consumers. The device is manufactured outside the country.

“We got a lot of customer feedback for the multi-camera system. We did a few iterations of the product with different features and that explains why it took us two years to launch the product,” said Jaibeer Malik, CTO, KENT CamEye (a division of KENT RO Systems).

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Connected & Autonomous Vehicle: Trip Analysis

In this post, we will explore to make sense of connected vehicle trip related data and how the vehicle driving information can further be used using data analytics techniques which can be useful for consumer and business also.

Trip Data

We have already have covered what kind of data can be available from connected vehicle in the previous post, IOT Data: Connected & Autonomous Vehicle, Making sense of data. Based on that data we take into account the vehicle driving information available to us.

The information in real scenarios can come from multiple sources. In case of connected and autonomous vehicle, it will come from vehicle itself. In case the vehicle is not connected to such devices, user phone information can be used to identify a trip movement information.

Vehicle Trip Definition

For the connected or autonomous vehicles, the data information we retrieve from the vehicle is the ignition on/off. Now we need to turn this information into meaningful business value trip information.

The functional start/stop information may not be directly mapped to a consumer or business ready definition of a trip. End consumer may switch on/off vehicle multiple times in a span of short period, you can stop your vehicle on a signal, you can also take a break in between your journey etc.

Vehicle trip is logical derivation on vehicle start/stop information. Taking into account the time between consecutive start/stop and small stops during the journey a trip is defined.

Vehicle Trip Analysis

Based on trip information, we will explore what all information can be driven with the data and how it can add business value.

The analysis can be categorised in different buckets,

• Per consumer trip analysis : How each consumer is doing in terms of driving mileage and time for vehicle.
• All consumers travel time analysis: What are the most frequent travel time for consumers
• Total travel behaviour and movement information: How vehicle movement happens

Per Consumer Trip Analysis

In case of connected car solution, from end consumer perspective, lot of analytics information can be provided to the end consumer. Detailed analysis of driving distance/time information and effective travel time can be shared.

Daily Distance Travelled

Detailed analysis of daily distance travelled by a consumer,

As shown above, daily distance travelled by the consumer for a month. Based on the consumer mileage information, consumer can see average distance travelled and on what days vehicle is mostly driven.