Reduce driver fatigue & distraction with EROAD Clarity Edge
Reduce driver fatigue & distraction with EROAD Clarity Edge
Clarity Edge is a powerful protective video solution that re-defines the role of dashcams. The flexible AI-powered, in-vehicle camera detects unsafe driving behaviors to help coach and reward drivers, reduce accidents, and boost fleet performance. Easily scale the solution to the needs of your business by pairing additional cameras to enable safer, proactive driving habits.
Driving is the #1 cause of workplace fatalities in Australia & New Zealand1
Your biggest risk is not falls from height, or chemical exposure. It’s driving. Additionally, nearly 20%2 of fatal road crashes are caused by driver fatigue.
When your drivers are fatigued or distracted, as well as being more susceptible to accidents, their driving technique suffers.
Reduced attention, vigilance and reaction times can lead to more erratic driving behaviour. Left unchecked, this can lead to costly accidents, higher fuel and maintenance costs as well as damage to brand reputation.
Help protect your drivers, and your business from your biggest risk
EROAD makes it easy for you to see what’s happening across your fleet, at any time. Our easy-to-use and intuitive video portal will let you see driver behaviours at-a-glance, while enabling you to investigate further with automated behaviour tagging and telematic data for rich context. It’s the ideal platform to boost your driver coaching program.
Deliver impactful driver coaching using video footage
Get a realistic view to improve risk mitigation efforts
Give peace of mind to drivers in the event of an accident
Provide evidence to protect not-at-fault drivers
Identify patterns to help drivers build healthier habits
Monitor a broader range of risky driving behaviours
Reduce fuel and maintenance costs through improved driving behaviour
Safeguard business reputation
Key Features
- Combination of telematics and three AI models capture events in high definition
- Range of behaviours available for monitoring including, mobile use, distraction, smoking, no seatbelt, yawning, following distance and near miss/collisions.
- In-cab voice alerts deliver real-time driver awareness
- Notifications and escalation pathways to help manage key risks
- Auxiliary in-cab fatigue camera with face and eye tracking technology to detect more subtle fatigue symptoms
- Automated tagging of behaviours streamlines review process
Advance road and driver safety with the power of AI
Detect the previously undetectable
In customer trials, 99.3% of driver behaviour events detected by EROAD Clarity Edge would have never been detected by standard dashcams or telematics.
Proactive risk management
Through its expansive driver behaviour insights, Clarity Edge offers you the ability to quickly identify patterns across a wider spectrum of risky behaviours. In turn, helping you to improve risk mitigation efforts.
Real-time intervention
In-cab driver alerts help correct behaviour in real-time. Plus the auxiliary Fatigue Camera can alert drivers in-the-moment to less obvious, and potentially dangerous signs of fatigue, such as frequent blinking or eye closure.
Impactful driver coaching
Build an effective coaching program, using high-definition video footage coupled with AI-generated insights and real-time alerts.
Categorise behaviours automatically
AI automatically tags video clips with the behaviour detected, making it easy to see what’s happening at-a-glance.
3 in 1 solution for driver behaviour, distraction and fatigue
In addition to high-definition footage and harsh driving event capture, our powerful, flexible solution lets you select from three AI-based video monitoring packages: Road, Driver and Fatigue.
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Road: detect collisions or near misses, following distance and pedestrian proximity alerts.
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Driver: picks up mobile phone use, distraction, yawning, seatbelt unfastened and smoking.
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Fatigue: detects frequent blinking, continuous eye closure over 2 seconds, yawning and distraction. Sees through sunglasses.
Fatigue isn’t just ‘falling asleep at the wheel’
Being awake for 18 hours has the same impact on reaction time, vigilance and hand-eye co-ordination as a blood alcohol level of 0.05% (the legal limit in New Zealand).
It can be hard for humans to identify fatigue is setting in. However, there are several early warning signs before a driver ‘falls asleep at the wheel’. These include:
- Frequent blinking, yawning or rubbing eyes
- Eye closure lasting a few seconds
- Daydreaming, or being more easily distracted
- Being on ‘Autopilot’ when you can’t recall the last few kms
- Drifting from your lane, missing an exit or road sign
EROAD Clarity Edge paired with the auxiliary Fatigue Camera is a powerful tool to help identify and prevent fatigue from turning into an accident.
The importance of taking regular breaks
Fatigue increases the longer you spend driving. Taking a break from driving may seem simple, but it can help to reduce fatigue. Managing driver hours is one of the critical tools used to help prevent or reduce driving tired.
In addition to fatigue monitoring, we have two solutions to help drivers proactively manage their hours:
EROAD Day Logbook
Manage compliance with NZTA’s work time rules (NZTA-approved electronic logbook)
EROAD Drive Buddy Fatigue
Set up bespoke shift/break policies with in-cab reminders (not an approved logbook/EWD)
What is driver fatigue & distraction costing you?
When your drivers are fatigued or distracted, as well as being more susceptible to accidents, their driving technique suffers.
Reduced attention, vigilance and reaction times can lead to more erratic driving behaviour, such as:
- Swerving
- Following too closely (tailgating)
- Sharp cornering
- Hard braking
- Harsh acceleration
Left unchecked this could lead to:
- Costly accidents, and rising insurance premiums
- Higher fuel costs, through inefficient fuel or energy usage
- Higher maintenance costs through increased wear and tear on tyres and brakes
- Damage to your company brand/reputation, with complaints from the public
“Having a robust solution to manage fatigue and distraction for our drivers was a key priority for the Booths safety program. EROAD Clarity Edge cameras have proven to be easy use, reliable and a great tool to alert the drivers and managers in realtime. The technology has a low amount of false alerts making it easy to get valuable footage to use in leader-driver coaching sessions leading to change in driving behaviours and ensure we get everyone home safe every day” – Booths Transport
