AI Camera Intelligence That Turns Footage Into Reviewable Events
A camera on a truck records everything and shows you nothing until something goes wrong and someone scrubs hours of footage to find it. KO Fleetz runs computer vision across dashcam, in-cab, bay and reversing feeds, clips the moments that matter, and files each one against a vehicle, driver, location and timestamp. The model flags; a person decides.
The camera saw it. Nobody did.
Most fleets that fit cameras end up with a hard drive, not an insight. The device dutifully records the whole shift, the footage sits on an SD card in the cab, and it is only ever retrieved after an incident — a customer complaint, an insurance claim, a collision. By then someone is scrubbing through eleven hours of road at 4x speed hoping to land on the ten seconds that matter, and half the time the loop has already overwritten it.
Telematics tells you a vehicle braked hard at 14:32 on the ring road. It cannot tell you the auto-rickshaw that cut across the bow, or that the driver was reaching for a dropped phone, or that the road was flooded. The number is real but the cause is missing, so the review meeting turns into the driver's word against a spike on a chart, and nobody leaves it convinced.
The loading bay is worse, because there is usually no camera pointed at it at all. A crate goes missing, a reversing manoeuvre clips a bollard, a cargo door is opened at an unscheduled stop — and the only record is a note in a logbook written by the person least motivated to write it accurately. The evidence that would settle it was never captured, or was captured and never surfaced.
Let the model watch the footage so a person can watch the exceptions
KO Fleetz ingests the live or near-live feed from the cameras already on the vehicle and runs computer vision over it as the trip happens. Instead of storing everything and hoping, it watches for a defined set of events — a following distance that collapses, a phone raised to the ear, a lane drift, a door opening away from a delivery point — and cuts a short clip around each one with a few seconds of lead-in and follow-through so the moment has context.
Every clip lands as an event, not as footage. It carries the vehicle, the driver on shift, the GPS coordinate, the speed at the instant and the timestamp, so a tailgating flag is not an abstraction on a dashboard — it is fifteen seconds of video you can open, tied to exactly where and when it happened. That is the layer telematics alone cannot provide: motion data says something occurred, the clip shows what.
What the model does not do is pass judgement. A computer-vision flag is a candidate, not a verdict. Sun glare on a windscreen, a passenger's phone, a legitimate hard stop for a pedestrian — these are the cases that make an unreviewed AI camera a liability, so KO Fleetz surfaces the clip for a human to confirm, dismiss or escalate. The scoring of driver behaviour over time is a separate job, handled by Driver Behavior Monitoring and Safety Scorecards; this module is the eyes that feed them evidence.
Capabilities
What KO Fleetz camera intelligence gives your team
Multi-camera ingestion
Pulls dashcam, in-cab, reversing and loading-bay feeds into one timeline per vehicle, so a road event and a bay event on the same trip sit side by side rather than on separate SD cards.
Event clip capture
Cuts a short buffered clip around each trigger with lead-in and follow-through, so a reviewer sees the seconds before and after the braking event, not a frozen frame with no context.
Road event detection
Computer vision flags tailgating, lane drift and hard-braking approaches from the forward feed, catching the following-distance collapse that an accelerometer registers only after contact.
In-cab distraction flags
Watches the driver-facing feed for phone use, prolonged eyes-off-road and no-hands-on-wheel patterns, and clips the moment rather than logging a bare count of infractions.
Real-time event alerts
Routes a confirmed or high-severity clip to the supervisor for that depot or region while the vehicle is still on the road, instead of surfacing it in a report the next morning.
Loading-bay and door events
Detects cargo-door openings away from a delivery point and reversing incidents at the bay, giving the one part of the operation that usually has no camera an actual evidence trail.
Location and moment context
Every clip carries its GPS coordinate, speed and timestamp, so a distraction flag on a clear highway reads differently from one crawling through market traffic, and each event is pinned to the map.
Reviewable event record
Each clip keeps its detection reason, the reviewer's decision and the outcome, building an audit trail that HR, insurers or a claims adjuster can open — footage attached, not a claim asserted.
How it works
How KO Fleetz does it
Step 1: Connect the cameras already on the vehicle
KO Fleetz reads the existing dashcam, in-cab or bay feeds where the device exposes them, and pairs the stream to the vehicle's tracker so every clip inherits its GPS, speed and driver assignment.
Step 2: Choose the events that matter
The fleet decides which triggers are live — tailgating, distraction, harsh approaches, door openings, reversing — and sets the severity thresholds, so the model watches for your risks rather than a generic default set.
Step 3: Detect, clip and attach
As trips run, computer vision flags candidate events and cuts a bounded clip around each, stamped with location, time and driver. High-severity clips alert immediately; the rest queue for review.
Step 4: Review and close the loop
A person confirms, dismisses or escalates each clip. Those decisions feed the driver's scorecard and coaching record, and dismissed false positives tune which triggers fire in future.
Outcomes
What changes
- The ten seconds that matter, already found
- Clip, not scrub
- What happened, not just that something did
- Video evidence
- The model flags; a person decides
- Human-confirmed
- Loading and reversing events finally captured
- Bay covered
Frequently asked questions
The in-cab feed is the sensitive one and it is treated as such. Camera Intelligence is designed to surface defined safety events — phone use, eyes off the road — as short clips, not to stream a continuous view of a person at work to a supervisor's screen. Which cameras are active, whether the cab-facing feed is enabled at all, and who can open a clip are configurable per fleet, so the deployment can meet whatever consent process and workplace policy you operate under. We would always advise telling drivers plainly what is captured and why; a camera programme that feels like surveillance gets sabotaged, taped over or fought, and stops producing usable evidence.
Not necessarily. The module is built to ingest feeds from cameras that already expose a usable stream, and many AI-dashcam and MDVR devices in the market do. What matters is that the device can deliver frames at a workable rate and be paired to the vehicle's tracker so clips inherit location and driver. Very closed devices that only record to a local card and never release the feed are the genuine blocker — those either need replacing or can only be used for after-the-fact retrieval, not live detection. We will tell you honestly which of your existing hardware qualifies before anyone buys anything.
It will, and the whole workflow is built around that fact. Sun glare, a passenger's phone, a legitimate emergency stop and heavy market traffic all produce clips that a model might flag and a human will dismiss in three seconds. That is exactly why nothing here auto-penalises a driver: a computer-vision flag is a candidate for review, not a confirmed event. Every dismissal also tunes the system — triggers that repeatedly fire on nothing get their thresholds tightened for that fleet — so the review queue gets shorter and more trustworthy over time rather than drowning supervisors in noise.
Those two work from motion and telematics data — accelerometer, GPS, speed — to score how a vehicle is being driven and rank drivers over time. They are excellent at the 'how much and how often' question and need no camera. Camera Intelligence adds the layer they cannot reach: the visual evidence and the events only a camera can see, like a following distance that collapses or a phone raised to the ear before any harsh input registers on a sensor. In practice they work together — a hard-braking spike on the scorecard becomes far more useful when the clip beside it shows the auto-rickshaw that caused it. This module supplies the video; the scorecard turns confirmed events into a trend.
By design, not much of it. The point of the module is to avoid warehousing continuous video — computer vision runs over the feed and keeps the short clips around detected events, so what is retained is a handful of bounded incidents per trip rather than the whole shift. Retention windows for those clips are configurable to match your policy and any regulatory requirement, and clips tied to an open claim or investigation can be held beyond the default while the rest age out. Continuous recording, where a fleet specifically wants it, is a heavier storage decision we scope separately rather than switch on by default.
A human reviews. The model's job ends at flagging a candidate and cutting the clip; the decision to confirm it, dismiss it, or escalate it to coaching or a claim is made by a person looking at the footage. Nothing about a driver's record changes on an unreviewed AI flag alone. This is deliberate — both because computer vision gets things wrong often enough that acting on it blindly would be unfair, and because an evidence trail that stands up with HR or an insurer needs a named person's judgement attached, not just a model's output.
See camera intelligence on your own footage
Point us at a few vehicles already running cameras, and KO Fleetz will show you the events it clips from a real day's driving — road, cab and bay.