Lytx Introduces the Game-Changing Unisyn Platform: Always-on Video Without Limits

Oct. 19, 2016 - PRLog -- Lytx, the world leader in video telematics, recently introduced the Unisyn platform, a wholly new video telematics model that gives unprecedented levels of quality video access and video expandability to fleets and field operations of all sizes and profiles.

Lytx launched the video telematics category in 1998, combining video capture of road incidents such as hard braking or sudden swerving, data analysis of those incidents, and personalised coaching insights to improve driving behaviour. Today, Lytx helps protect more than 600,000 commercial and government fleet drivers under its DriveCam® exception-based video programme.

"Our award-winning DriveCam programme has been the gold standard for exception-based video safety programmes for coaching drivers, and nothing changes – it will continue to serve clients who want video captured solely upon triggered events," said Lytx Chairman and CEO Brandon Nixon. "But for some organisations, another priority is visibility into their fleet and field operations in a way that can be tailored to their business intelligence needs."

The new Unisyn video telematics platform works side by side with the DriveCam platform for those fleets that wish to take advantage of their complementary benefits – using DriveCam's exception-based video to help prevent collisions through programmatic coaching, and Unisyn's always-on video to track, monitor and act on fleet and field operations.

The Unisyn platform features always-on access to up to seven days – or more, depending on the user- chosen resolution -- of cloud-connected video. Organisations can access, review and manage video from their fleets and field operations when, where and how they want, in real time, or a few days after an incident has occurred.

"For some fleets, safety may be balanced against operational efficiency and/or security priorities, which can be addressed through the ability to observe and track vehicles in all aspects of their day," he continued. "In DriveCam, we're focusing on the driver, and with Unisyn our primary focus is the fleet operations."

Expandable, Flexible and Highly Configurable Cameras

A proprietary combination of hardware and wireless network technology enables the Unisyn platform to seamlessly integrate and synchronise high-definition video from as many cameras as a client wishes, including, but not limited to:

• Forward-facingto capture what's in front of the driver
• Side viewto capture activity adjacent to the vehicle
• Side-mirrorto capture activity both adjacent to and near the front of the vehicle
• Rear viewto capture activity behind the vehicle
• Cargo interiorto capture activity within the cargo hold
• Dock/warehouseto validate activity in the presence of the vehicle
• Interiorto capture situations of security concern within the vehicle

Resulting video and corresponding telematics data can be accessed from the cloud in real time or on demand, from virtually any cloud-connected device including iOS and Android mobile devices.

Move from Seeing to Solving: The Fleet Decides What Video to Access, When

"Access to video telematics has, until now, largely been driven by safety needs, and dictated by fleet size," said Sathyanarayana K, research manager for Automotive & Transportation for Frost & Sullivan. "The Unisyn platform's flexibility and elegant simplicity essentially democratises access to the power of video. It's a turning point in the telematics industry."

"The Unisyn platform revolutionises traditional video telematics in a number of ways," said Nixon. "It clears a path for all fleets, regardless of size and complexity, to put our world-class video capture to work protecting their businesses."

Unisyn puts power into the client's hands to configure not only their own slate of safety and fleet optimisation services, but also to choose the precise level of risk they wish to monitor in their fleet. Because the Unisyn platform gives fleets the freedom to configure their own solution, organisations can start with video capture of collisions and consequential driving events and at the same time adopt services to enhance fleet productivity and performance, such as fuel management or fleet tracking. They can, in essence, assemble their wish list of features that can help them achieve their unique business objectives.