As with aircraft, trains or ships, now private vehicles, public or private transport, cargo delivery fleets or freight transport, practically any type of automotive, can carry Crash Boxx, a device developed by LoJack that It works similar to a black box: it will store driving data and, in the event of a vehicular accident, provide accurate data about the incident.
Alfredo Krueger, CEO of LoJack México, a CalAmp subsidiary, details Forbes Mexico that the Crash Boxx device will store driving data such as trip origin, route, speed, if the driver flew a pothole or bump or had a major mishap. When the level of the incident is higher, notifications are sent to the people that the user of this technology decides, as well as authorities to attend to the emergency.
Notifications to the driver’s relatives, the manager specifies, are sent via email, SMS message or even from the LoJack application for cell phones.
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Unlike the black boxes on airplanes, Krueger points out, Crash Boxx, in addition to storing all the information from the vehicle’s computers and the GPS, “has the sensitivity to measure impacts. Nowadays, a black box of an airplane does not have the possibility of measuring impacts or how it happened, Crash Boxx does, and in part it can assess the damages ”derived from the traffic incident.
The manager points out that this technology, which has been operating for years in the United States and Europe, is new in Mexico, and will be deploying it in the coming months, mainly with companies that have large vehicle fleets, but also with private motorists and insurance companies , because the automatic quantification of damages is an added value for this sector.
“It is new technology that we are beginning to launch on the market, we have already proven it with several corporations that are going to use it, including with insurance companies we are in the testing phase, but where I see a much more relevant impact are on families, because at Notifying about an accident will be able to act to save the life of the family member or who has medical and police assistance at that time ”, Krueger points out.
A study by the World Economic ForumHe states that “in order to satisfy the growing desire of customers to buy products online, the number of delivery vehicles in the world’s top 100 cities will increase by 36% until 2030. Consequently […] congestion will increase by more than 21% ”, so road risks will also increase, a scenario in which Crash Boxx becomes relevant.
LoJack, a subsidiary of CalAmp, is today the leading company in locating and recovering stolen vehicles. In 24 years of operation in Mexico, it has managed to recover eight billion pesos in stolen cars. However, LoJack is now venturing into new products: in addition to Crash Boxx, it participates with the governments of the State of Mexico and Puebla in video surveillance programs for public transportation.
Based on changes in their legislation, both Puebla and the State of Mexico ask carriers to install cameras in their units. LoJack is one of the companies certified by the Ministries of Mobility and Command and Computing Centers to install the equipment. To date, it has installed 1,300 in the Mexican entity and 5,000 in Puebla territory. But its cameras have the component of facial and weapon recognition.
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“Having a video has not stopped the theft issue. The thugs enter the unit and the first thing they do is destroy the camera. We develop very particular technology to be able to have weapons detection and facial recognition, which is directly connected to the C5 of each state, ”says Alfredo Krueger.
And it abounds: “a person who draws a knife or firearm inside the public transport unit is detected instantly, before they can alter the camera, the C5 is notified, which in turn alerts the closest patrol or officer to the transport unit to attend and solve this specific problem ”.
In addition, the videos are stored in a cloud that can be accessed from a cell phone to an internet portal. That database says, it can be constantly consulted by the police in order to cross data on whether that person who was recorded committing a crime in public transport, commits crimes in other spaces and thus generate a police intelligence strategy.
“There is evidence to be able to use against the person at the moment in which he is apprehended. If he commits another crime again, keep the image of his face, so that the police can locate him more easily, they will put together the sequence of where he commits his crimes, where he is located. It is no longer so easy to commit a crime and remain anonymous ”, he stresses.
Both the Crash Boxx and the facial and weapon recognition cameras are recent products from LoJack, which will seek to position them in the market shortly. They could even sign an agreement with a private transport company with a driver to pay for the safety of the operators, both in vehicle tracking and in the road safety component.
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