The customer operated mixed passenger vehicles and light commercial vans across several depots. Different legacy cameras and inconsistent file-handling procedures made incident review slow and difficult to audit.
Deployment at a glance
- Scope: mixed fleet across three operating locations
- Goal: standardized front/rear evidence and faster incident review
- Approach: pilot, installation template, phased rollout and review training
The challenge
Teams were losing time locating the correct memory card, matching footage to a vehicle and confirming whether every camera was operating. The business needed a common configuration, a documented retrieval process and hardware that could tolerate daily commercial use.
The solution
SAMEUO and the installation partner began with a representative pilot group. Mounting locations, cable paths, parking-power settings and retention targets were documented for each vehicle type. The final template was then applied in scheduled rollout waves.
Before
- Mixed hardware and settings
- Manual vehicle-to-file matching
- Reactive maintenance
After
- Standard installation profile
- Consistent evidence workflow
- Routine camera health checks
Measured operational impact
48%
faster average incident-footage retrieval during the pilot
3
vehicle profiles converted into repeatable installation guides
1
shared operating procedure for review, export and escalation
Why the rollout worked
The project treated installation and evidence handling as one system. A small pilot exposed vehicle-specific issues early, while documentation and staff training made the final rollout repeatable. The same framework can scale to larger fleets by adding remote health and event-management services where required.
Success came from standardizing the workflow—not simply replacing the cameras.