SAFE FLEET BLOG

The best way to introduce improvements to bus fleets when budgets are tight is to do it incrementally, bit by bit. The TH8 is designed from the ground up to make this possible — it retains backward compatibility with legacy cameras and simultaneously enables adoption of new technology models.

As a result, your agency can keep up to 8 existing legacy standard definition analog cameras where they make sense and choose to update important locations with new, full high-definition models. If additional channels are needed, you have the option of adding up to 2 more IP cameras while retaining or replacing those original 8. No matter what your improvement strategy, the TH8 makes it possible.

But TH8 flexibility doesn’t stop at 8 or even 10 channels; it supports up to 13! A special IP module enables connecting a mix of up to 4 standard or high definition analog cameras in place of an IP camera. The second IP camera remains available which brings your total camera count to 13. In all but the largest vehicles or those with complex internal layouts, the TH8 can provide 100% video coverage. This level of coverage normally requires significant up-front expenditures, but as we’ve discussed, the TH8 makes it incrementally achievable.

Since the TH8 was designed to scale dynamically as requirements change and budgets allow, we built in Flexible Channel Assignment to minimize camera reassignment activity costs and time. This capability allows assigning a camera to any desired video input channel in the recorder configuration. If Camera 1 is the Front Door view today but must be moved to display the Windshield view, simply update the configuration and load that information to the recorder. There is no need to remove cable covers or hunt down and move wires. And, if your recorders are part of a wireless deployment, the configurations can be pushed to each recorder automatically. Channel reassignment activities are no longer a burden to be avoided as the TH8 has turned this process into a routine configuration maintenance activity.

The TH8 wins on so many fronts

• This one recorder by default provides support for up to 8 analog HD cameras and up to 2 IP cameras.
• Replace one IP channel with a module to support an additional 4HD channels and now you have 13 channels.
• Keep perfectly good legacy cameras where it makes sense or selectively update to full high-definition cameras where image details are important.
• And know that all along the TH8 considers ongoing costs by including features like Flexible Channel Assignment and automatic configuration updates via wireless.

This level of design flexibility is virtually unheard of in a recorder at this level.

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