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Fleet Video Retention: How Long to Keep Footage, and Who Actually Decides

Insurer guidance gives no retention period, so the recorder's card often decides by default. Keeping a 200-vehicle fleet's full recording for 13 months costs about 600 times more than keeping its event clips. Here is who really sets fleet video retention, and how to write the policy.

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MDVR Cloud Upload: Getting In-Vehicle Recorder Footage Off the Truck

MDVR cloud upload sounds like one pipe. It is four: cellular for events, depot Wi-Fi for bulk, a pulled drive after a serious incident, and the option nobody names — leaving footage on the vehicle until someone asks. Here is which footage takes which path, and what the recorder speaks

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Live Fleet Video vs Recorded: When a Fleet Actually Needs a Live Feed

The best evidence that fleet cameras improve safety comes from recorded clips and human coaching, not live feeds. In one randomised study, automated in-cab alerts alone made no significant difference. Here is when a fleet actually needs live video, and when recording is the better buy.

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Store-and-Forward for Fleet Video: Keeping the Footage the Network Drops

Every fleet recorder already stores video. The hard part is forwarding it: one hour of footage takes nearly three hours to upload over a typical 4G link, and the on-board buffer is a countdown to overwrite. Here is how store-and-forward actually works, and what it still loses.

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Why Your Fleet Dashcam Feed Dies the Moment the Truck Hits a Dead Zone

The black tile on your live map is almost never the camera. In TRAI's own highway drive test, a fifth to a quarter of samples on Airtel and Jio had poor signal, against under 3.2% in the city. Here is why live feeds die on the road, and what actually helps.

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Fleet Video Bandwidth: How Many Camera Feeds Actually Fit Down a Moving 4G Link

Two fleet cameras at the lowest documented recording setting need 14 Mbps of upload. TRAI measured 4G-only upload between 4.5 and 9 Mbps on India's operators. The recording stream never fits. Here is the fleet video bandwidth arithmetic: what the link carries and what fits.

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Fleet Video Monitoring Cost: What It Takes to Watch a Fleet Live

One live camera per vehicle, ten hours a day, is 70 GB of mobile data per vehicle per month and 3.1 million streaming minutes across a 200-vehicle fleet. Live on trigger is under half a gigabyte. Here is the fleet video monitoring cost model: data, people and platform, line by line.

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How Fleet Video Streaming Actually Works — The Architecture Between Vehicle and Command Centre

Cameras speak RTSP; browsers speak WebRTC. This deep dive walks the fleet video streaming architecture packet by packet — the RTSP-to-WebRTC bridge, the SFU that fans one feed out to many viewers, the latency budget, and the offline-recovery problem no SFU solves alone.

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Why Edge AI Alone Can’t Solve Fleet Video — And What the Cloud Layer Needs to Do

Modern dashcams run AI on the edge — but they can’t stream live to a command centre. This piece breaks down what edge does well, the three things it physically can’t do, and the fleet video infrastructure layer that fills the gap.

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