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:
- Front and Rear Video+Still cameras
- H.264 HD 1080P 30~60fps support -> 8~12Mbps?
- Low light performance
- Foggy/hazy condition performance
- Uninterrupted video recording capability simultaneously on both cameras
- Positioning
- GPS with horizontal and vertical positional accuracy of upto 5 metre variation
- Connectivity:
- Wifi
- 4G Data
- Voice/Voip call support
- SMS support
- Sensors:
- Motion sensor of the fitted vehichle
- Passive InfraRed sensor - to identify movement around
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Storage:
- Local storage capacity upto 128G
- Extendable storage capacity upto 1TB
- Cloud storage of recent videos and critical/selected videos
Features:
Active features:
- Video recording
- When the vehichle is in motion, record the Front+Rear (F+R) video feeds to local storage.
- When the vehichle is still, continuously monitor motion sensor. When vehichle motion/shake/jerk identified, activate video recording
- Until when?
- Identify type of motion
- Jerk or a short motion -> Possible intrusion/collision
- Activate emergency protocol
- Record video
- Capture stills
- Send message of activity to owner
- Send stills optionally
- Continuous motion
- Possible journey -> Trigger video recording
- When the vehicle is still, Observe movement around through passive infrared sensor
- When no motion
- Capture periodic stills for later analysis
- When motion detected
- Capture stills for later analysis
- Position recording
- Georeferenced video content
- Store GPS locations in a suitable file format for later plotting the route in Google earth/maps
- Observe unnatural temperature variations
- Send message to owner
- Send stills
- OBD II Scan features
- Communicate with a bluetooth OBDII scanner to read the vitals of the car periodically and record it.
Passive Features:
- Connectivity to mobile application
- Cloud video/still storage for critical or selected videos
- Ability to choose between wifi connectivity if available from a external wifi dongle or internal data card
- Smart SMS/Whatsapp feature for communicating stills/message with owner
- Broadcast live journey to youtube channel
