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Driver monitoringA second pair of eyes in every cab.
A small device on the dashboard watches the driver, not the road. Drowsiness, a phone in hand, eyes off the road, no seat belt, or the wrong person at the wheel: the driver hears a buzzer at once, and your control room gets an alert with a photo.
What is a driver monitoring system?
A driver monitoring system is a small camera and processor fixed to the dashboard that watches the driver for the whole trip. Tarsyer’s checks whether the driver is drowsy, using a phone, looking away from the road, wearing a seat belt or driving too long without a break, and whether they are the driver assigned to that vehicle. It sounds a buzzer and light in the cab at once and sends an alert with a photo to the fleet’s control room.
Three questions, asked all the way through the trip.
Each check targets one of three risks: a tired driver, a distracted driver, and the wrong driver.
Is the driver awake?
- Eyes closing
- Yawning
- Hours at the wheel without a break
Is the driver watching the road?
- Looking at a mobile phone
- Looking sideways, up or down instead of ahead
Is it the right driver, driving safely?
- The assigned driver is the one at the wheel
- Seat belt worn
- Speed, location and harsh braking, with the GPS add-on
The driver hears it first. The control room hears it too.
Buzzer and light
A buzzer sounds and a light flashes to bring the driver’s attention back. A louder external speaker can be added for noisy cabs.
An alert with a photo
Sent over the mobile network to a dashboard that collects every vehicle’s alerts, with SMS or WhatsApp to the numbers you choose.
Resets by itself
Once the driver is looking at the road again, the alarm stops. Each alert stays on the dashboard for review.
One unit, fitted in a single visit.
Fitting
- On the dashboard, facing the driver
- Powered from the vehicle battery or a USB socket
- Starts and stops with the ignition
Connection
- Its own SIM on the mobile network
- GPS add-on for speed and location
- Every event available through an API
Add-ons
- Extra storage to record video
- Louder external speaker
- A second camera for the cargo area or outside
What it cannot see, said before you buy.
A device that misses things quietly is worse than none, because the fleet stops checking. These are the conditions where it can miss.
Plan the fitting around these
- Sunglasses hide the eyes, so drowsiness cannot be judged through them.
- Strong sun in the cab, or glare on ordinary glasses, can hide the eyes too.
- In a cab without air conditioning, direct sun can overheat the unit and slow it down, and it may miss alerts until it cools.
- A seat belt the same colour as the driver’s shirt is hard to see.
- If the unit is knocked out of position or unplugged, it stops watching.
Questions about driver monitoring.
Trucks, buses, taxis and vans, old or new. Nothing in the vehicle’s own systems changes: a technician connects the unit to the battery and the ignition, and positions it so the camera sees the whole driver’s seat.
No. Tarsyer’s work in stores, plants and warehouses runs on cameras already installed, but driver monitoring brings its own camera, built into the dashboard unit together with the processor.
Each alert arrives with a photo or a short clip on a central dashboard that collects alerts from every vehicle. SMS or WhatsApp messages can go to the numbers you choose, and every event is available through an API for your own fleet software.
Usually, yes. Bright light outside can cause glare on ordinary glasses and hide the eyes. Sunglasses hide them completely, so drowsiness cannot be judged through them.
Yes, with the GPS add-on, which adds speed, location, and harsh braking and acceleration. It is not part of the base unit.
The same trucks arrive at a loading dock. Tarsyer also times them there: truck waiting time and turnaround.
Tell us about your fleet.
How many vehicles, what kind, and which risks worry you most. Driver monitoring is set up for each fleet rather than sold off the shelf, and we will tell you plainly whether it fits.
Or write to sales@tarsyer.com