Thursday, August 29, 2019

Step-one - What do I want?

As a owner of a 2+ wheel motor vehichle, I like to have a black box in my vehichle which can support the following features,


Key hardware components:


  1. Front and Rear Video+Still cameras
    1. H.264 HD 1080P 30~60fps support -> 8~12Mbps?
    2. Low light performance
    3. Foggy/hazy condition performance
    4. Uninterrupted video recording capability simultaneously on both cameras
  2. Positioning
    1. GPS with horizontal and vertical positional accuracy of upto 5 metre variation
  3. Connectivity:
    1. Wifi
    2. 4G Data
    3. Voice/Voip call support
    4. SMS support
  4. Sensors:
    1. Motion sensor of the fitted vehichle
    2. Passive InfraRed sensor - to identify movement around
    3. Temperature
    4. Humidity

  5. Storage:
    1. Local storage capacity upto 128G
    2. Extendable storage capacity upto 1TB
    3. Cloud storage of recent videos and critical/selected videos
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Features:



Active features:

  1. Video recording
    1. When the vehichle is in motion, record the Front+Rear (F+R) video feeds to local storage.
  2. When the vehichle is still, continuously monitor motion sensor. When vehichle motion/shake/jerk identified, activate video recording
    1. Until when?
    2. Identify type of motion
      1. Jerk or a short motion -> Possible intrusion/collision
        1. Activate emergency protocol
          1. Record video
          2. Capture stills
          3. Send message of activity to owner
          4. Send stills optionally
      2. Continuous motion
        1. Possible journey -> Trigger video recording
  3. When the vehicle is still, Observe movement around through passive infrared sensor
    1. When no motion
      1. Capture periodic stills for later analysis
    2. When motion detected
      1. Capture stills for later analysis
  4. Position recording
    1. Georeferenced video content
    2. Store GPS locations in a suitable file format for later plotting the route in Google earth/maps
  5. Observe unnatural temperature variations
    1. Send message to owner
    2. Send stills
  6. OBD II Scan features
    1. Communicate with a bluetooth OBDII scanner to read the vitals of the car periodically and record it.

Passive Features:

  1. Connectivity to mobile application
  2. Cloud video/still storage for critical or selected videos
  3. Ability to choose between wifi connectivity if available from a external wifi dongle or internal data card
  4. Smart SMS/Whatsapp feature for communicating stills/message with owner
  5. Broadcast live journey to youtube channel