David Armitage
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Imagine trying to deploy dash cams on a commercial fleet with hundred or thousands of commercial vehicles. Physically visiting each vehicle to pull an SD card on a regular basis would be impractical, and a daunting impediment to implementation.
Now imagine that all of the vehicles periodically come into a yard, and that the company deploys wifi sufficient to cover the yard. Finally, since these are commercial installs, imagine that the dash cams are all hard wired to the vehicle and remain on (in low power mode) even when the vehicle is turned off.
All of the wifi equipped dash cams I have found were designed to operate in wifi AP mode and some of them have an FTP server. Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't work. What I'm looking for is both a wifi client and aFTP client, I believe. Then when the camera comes within range of a known wifi AP (and it should support several SSID's) it should post any new clips to a designated FTP site.
This seems to me to be both simple and logical. I don't seem to be finding it on any of the existing dash cams.
BTW, I know that I could do this perhaps by using an Eye-Fi or similar wifi equipped SD card, but the reality is that the radio range of these wonderful devices is pretty short. Nothing like a real wifi radio with a decent antenna.
Now imagine that all of the vehicles periodically come into a yard, and that the company deploys wifi sufficient to cover the yard. Finally, since these are commercial installs, imagine that the dash cams are all hard wired to the vehicle and remain on (in low power mode) even when the vehicle is turned off.
All of the wifi equipped dash cams I have found were designed to operate in wifi AP mode and some of them have an FTP server. Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't work. What I'm looking for is both a wifi client and aFTP client, I believe. Then when the camera comes within range of a known wifi AP (and it should support several SSID's) it should post any new clips to a designated FTP site.
This seems to me to be both simple and logical. I don't seem to be finding it on any of the existing dash cams.
BTW, I know that I could do this perhaps by using an Eye-Fi or similar wifi equipped SD card, but the reality is that the radio range of these wonderful devices is pretty short. Nothing like a real wifi radio with a decent antenna.
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