Smart Detection

Smart Detection uses your GO Focus Plus and Pro cameras to enhance your exception rules.

Note: This feature is available for GO Focus Plus cameras only.
Smart Detection can help you track the following risky driving behaviors:

  • Speeding

  • Tailgating

  • Illegal turns

Smart Speeding

Smart Speeding automatically connects speeding events with a visual record of the nearest speed limit sign.

Smart Speeding helps reviewers quickly assess speeding events by pairing each event with a photo of the relevant speed limit sign and its map location.

As the vehicle drives, the dashcam continuously watches for roadside speed limit signs. When it sees one, it takes a snapshot and tags it with the vehicle's location at that moment. If a speeding event occurs later, the system finds the most recent sign it detected. It attaches that snapshot and its map location directly to the event record.

The event shows two images side by side: the speeding footage and the speed sign photo with its map location. This makes it clear what the posted limit was at the time, without checking another source.

Note:

Smart Speeding requires no user action to enable. It is automatically available for all GO Focus Plus/Pro™ cameras.

Enabling Smart Speeding

Learn how to enable Smart Speeding in the MyGeotab dashboard.

  1. Navigate to Video > Settings in the main menu.
  2. Select the Events tab.
  3. Select the Smart Speeding checkbox.
  4. Click Save.

Smart Speeding is now enabled.

Smart Tailgating

Smart Tailgating enhances the existing tailgating rule in MyGeotab by filtering out events where drivers are already self-correcting.

Note:

No user action is required to enable smart tailgating. It is automatically available for all GO Focus Plus/Pro cameras.

The Smart Tailgating feature is a video-powered enhancement for the existing tailgating rule in MyGeotab. It addresses a common problem: creating tailgating events when drivers are already self-correcting.

Tailgating detection focuses on the gap between vehicles. Using the existing rule, the system creates an event if the gap is within a certain threshold, even when the driver is slowing down. Smart Tailgating filters out events where drivers are already self-correcting, allowing fleet managers to focus on coaching events with real risk.

The feature works by watching how quickly the gap between vehicles changes. If the gap is growing at a certain rate, the system determines the driver is self-correcting and no event is generated. If the gap stays the same, gets smaller, or does not grow fast enough, the system creates an event.

Turn Violations

Turn violations are a Smart Detection feature available in MyGeotab that alerts you when drivers make illegal turns.

Note:

You do not need to enable turn violations. It is automatically available for all GO Focus Plus/Pro cameras.

The turn violations feature uses the road-facing camera and vehicle movement to create events when drivers make illegal turns. It can monitor for illegal left and right turns, as well as for illegal U-turns.

When a driver makes a turn, the system checks three things:

  • The direction of the turn

  • Whether the motion matches a right turn, a left turn, or a U-turn

  • Where signs or lane markings at that location show the turn isn't allowed

If the turn matches the criteria for a turn that is not allowed at that location, the system logs the event with a video recording.

You can use turn violations to spot drivers who are more likely to get citations or be involved in a collision.