Dashcam Guardian · Tracking Guardian Module

The dashcam that doesn't just record — it watches the road, the driver, and reports back.

A 4G connected dual-facing dashcam that streams live to the EM8 Portal, auto-uploads clips the moment something happens, and flags driver fatigue or distraction in real time — all native to Tracking Guardian, no extra login.

VEH-024 · LIVE FEED
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Live · 4G
CH 1 · FRONT
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42mph
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40mph
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// What it is

A dashcam built for fleet operators, not consumers.

Most dashcams are a glorified SD card with a lens. This is a connected vehicle camera — the kind insurers and fleet managers actually want — fully integrated into the EM8 Portal you already use for tracking, jobs, and driver management.

01

Dual-facing 4G HD camera

Forward-facing wide-angle lens captures the road. Optional in-cab lens watches the driver. Both stream over 4G so footage isn't trapped on an SD card.

02

Live view on demand

Open Tracking Guardian, tap a vehicle, watch the live feed in the browser. No app to install, no SD card to retrieve. Useful for incident verification and lone-worker welfare checks.

03

Event-triggered clip upload

The device decides what matters. A harsh brake, a crash, a forward collision warning — the clip uploads automatically, indexed against the trip and the driver, before you've even had the phone call.

04

AI driver monitoring (ADAS + DMS)

Onboard processing detects fatigue, distraction, phone use, smoking, and unsafe following distance. Alerts surface in the portal in seconds — not in next month's report.

Recent Events · Today
3 New
FORWARD COLLISION 14:32
VEH-024 · J. Morgan · A470 northbound
▷ Clip ready · 18s
DRIVER DISTRACTION 13:18
VEH-019 · S. Patel · M4 J33
▷ Clip ready · 12s
HARSH BRAKING 11:47
VEH-024 · J. Morgan · Cardiff Bay Link
▷ Clip ready · 10s
// Before & After

What changes when you swap an SD-card dashcam for a connected one.

The footage isn't the problem — getting to it is. Every minute spent retrieving SD cards, downloading clips, and matching incidents to drivers is a minute the insurer is waiting and the claim is hardening against you.

Traditional dashcam

  • Engineer drives to the depot to pull the SD card every time something happens.
  • Footage is overwritten in a loop — if you don't grab it in 48 hours, it's gone.
  • No idea an incident happened until the third-party claim arrives weeks later.
  • Driver fatigue and distraction go entirely unmonitored.
  • Clips live in a folder somewhere, disconnected from the trip and the driver.
  • Live view? Not a thing. You see what happened, eventually.
  • Separate platform, separate login, separate billing.
  • No audit trail of who viewed what footage, when.

Dashcam Guardian

  • Clips upload over 4G the moment an event fires — no depot trip needed.
  • Footage is preserved on the platform indefinitely, by event, with retention rules.
  • Crash detection pings the office before the driver has stopped shaking.
  • AI driver monitoring flags fatigue, phone use, and distraction in real time.
  • Every clip is tagged to the trip, the vehicle, the driver, and the GPS point.
  • Tap any vehicle, watch live, instantly — from any browser.
  • Same portal, same login, same bill as the rest of Tracking Guardian.
  • Full access log: every clip view, download, and share is recorded.
// Platform features

Everything that makes it a fleet tool, not a toy.

Twelve features that together turn raw video into something insurers, fleet managers, and HR teams actually use.

Live

4G Live Streaming

Tap a vehicle in the portal, see the live front view in your browser within a couple of seconds. Useful for incident verification, theft response, and driver welfare checks.

ADAS

Forward Collision Warning

Onboard AI calculates the gap to the vehicle ahead and alerts before impact. Repeated FCW events become a coaching signal in the driver scoreboard.

ADAS

Lane Departure Warning

Detects unintentional lane drift — a strong fatigue and distraction indicator on motorway routes. Logged as an event against the trip.

DMS

Fatigue & Drowsiness

The optional in-cab lens detects eye closure, yawning, and head-down posture. Alerts surface before tiredness becomes an accident.

DMS

Phone & Distraction Detection

Flags phone-to-ear, looking away from the road, and smoking while driving. Configurable per fleet — set what you want to be told about.

Event

Crash Detection

Hard impact triggers an instant alert, a buffered clip from before and after the moment, and a notification to your control room — within seconds of the event.

Event

Harsh Driving Events

Acceleration, braking, and cornering thresholds calibrated per vehicle class. Each event ships with the clip, the GPS point, and a coaching tag.

Storage

Loop & Event Recording

Continuous loop recording to onboard SD storage. Event clips additionally upload to the portal so they're never overwritten or lost.

Recall

Historical Clip Pull

Need footage from yesterday's 14:32 incident? Request it from the portal — the device pulls the clip from local storage and uploads on demand.

GPS

Native GPS Telemetry

It's not just a camera — it's a tracker too. GPS, speed, heading, and ignition feed directly into Tracking Guardian's existing trip and journey engine.

Audit

Full Footage Audit Trail

Every view, download, and share of a clip is logged with user, timestamp, and reason. Built for insurance disclosure and GDPR Article 30.

Ops

Device Health Monitoring

Signal strength, SD card status, last contact, firmware version — all visible per device. Faults raise tickets in the EM8 Portal automatically.

// Event types

Two camera channels. Two categories of intelligence.

The forward-facing channel watches the road. The optional in-cab channel watches the driver. Together they cover every meaningful safety event in a single, normalised event stream.

Road-facing (ADAS)

Forward Channel · Onboard AI
Crash / impact detectedCritical
Forward collision warningHigh
Lane departure warningMedium
Headway monitoring (tailgating)Medium
Harsh accelerationCoaching
Harsh brakingCoaching
Harsh corneringCoaching
Over speed (context-aware)Coaching

Driver-facing (DMS)

In-Cab Channel · Optional
Fatigue / drowsiness detectedHigh
Eyes closedHigh
Driver distraction / looking awayMedium
Phone use while drivingMedium
Smoking while drivingMedium
YawningCoaching
Driver absent / no faceInfo
Look-down (likely phone)Coaching
// How it works

Five steps from install to insight.

The deployment flow mirrors the rest of Tracking Guardian — provision in the portal, fit the device, and footage starts flowing.

01

Provision

Add the device's serial to your stock in the EM8 Portal. Assign it to a customer and vehicle when you're ready.

02

Fit

Mount behind the rear-view mirror, hardwire to permanent + ignition + earth. Twenty minutes per vehicle.

03

Phone home

Device powers up, connects over 4G, registers itself against the assigned vehicle, and starts streaming GPS.

04

Watch & record

Loop recording runs continuously. ADAS and DMS engines watch in real time. Events trigger clip uploads.

05

Act

Events show in the portal feed, alerts hit the right people, and clips are one click away — indexed by driver, trip, and time.

// Integration with Tracking Guardian

Not a bolt-on. Part of the same platform.

Dashcam Guardian shares the same data model, the same scoreboard, the same driver records, and the same billing as the rest of Tracking Guardian. Footage doesn't live in a different silo — it lives next to the trip it came from.

// Shared driver scoreboardEvents feed the score you already use

Dashcam events plug straight into Tracking Guardian's scoreboard with configurable weighting. Forward collision warnings, distraction events, and harsh manoeuvres all influence the driver's overall score — alongside the existing speeding and harsh-driving metrics.

// Unified incident viewOne screen, one timeline

The incident drawer in Tracking Guardian shows the GPS trail, the speed profile, the road context, and now the dashcam clip — all on the same timeline. No tab-switching, no clip retrieval, no "give me ten minutes to find it".

// EM8 HQ mobile appDrivers see their own footage

Drivers using the EM8 HQ mobile app can review their own dashcam events — promoting self-coaching rather than top-down management. Managers control what's visible to whom.

// Job & FSM cross-linkFootage attached to the job

When an event happens during an active job (delivered through EM8 Core FSM), the clip is auto-attached to the job record. Useful for delivery proof, attendance disputes, and incident-during-service evidence.

// Use cases

Built for the businesses we already serve.

If you operate vehicles and care about safety, claims, or coaching — this is for you. Some of the operations getting the most out of Dashcam Guardian today:

Fire & security installers

Protect engineers on call-outs, evidence response times, and capture footage of attempted vehicle break-ins at sites.

Trade fleets

Lower insurance premiums, reduce at-fault claim exposure, and coach younger drivers using their own footage.

Delivery operations

Prove drop-off attendance, defend against fraudulent claims, and monitor multi-drop driving patterns.

Lone-worker services

Welfare-check engineers visually, with consent, and respond fast if a vehicle goes off-route or stops unexpectedly.

Stop chasing SD cards.

Add Dashcam Guardian to your Tracking Guardian deployment and turn every vehicle in your fleet into a connected safety asset — visible, recordable, and accountable from one portal.