Smart Driver ID

Smart Driver ID uses AI to provide automated suggestions for driver assignments for your trips and video events. Whene enabled, it can also auto-assign trips and video events based on driver templates.

Note: This feature is available for GO Focus Plus cameras only.

Smart Driver ID uses AI to automatically identify drivers based on video recordings. This allows MyGeotab to provide automated driver assignment suggestions for your trips and video events. You can also enable auto assignment to allow MyGeotab to automatically assign trips and video events without needing manual approval.

Smart Driver ID builds driver templates in the background using existing camera footage. Once the templates are complete, Administrators can review them in MyGeotab to match each template to a driver profile. Smart Driver ID then uses the templates for future trips and video events to automatically identify the driver associated with each event.

You can use Smart Driver ID in two modes. Suggestion mode uses AI to generate a suggested driver for each trip or video event based on your driver templates. Administrators approve the suggestions to assign each event. Auto assignment mode removes the need for approval by automatically assigning the suggested driver to the event.

Smart Driver ID also uses continuous verification to monitor the cabin throughout each trip to detect unauthorized driver swaps.

Smart Driver ID best practices

To make sure Smart Driver ID performs reliably, we recommend:

  • Ensure that there is nothing blocking the driver's face in the cabin of your vehicles. Smart Driver ID relies on visible facial features to generate face templates and to match drivers to events.

  • Continue to review suggested drivers and driver mappings to improve the model over time. This includes merging templates when two or more templates match the same driver.

Enabling Smart Driver ID

Learn how to enable Smart Driver ID in MyGeotab to automatically assign drivers to trips and video events.

  1. Navigate to Video > Settings in the main menu.
  2. Select the Smart Driver ID tab.
  3. Select your preferred mode:
    • Smart suggestions uses AI to suggest a driver for each event and trip. Manager approval is required to assign the trip or event to the suggested driver.
    • Auto assignment automatically assigns the suggested driver for each trip or event.
    Note: In order to select Auto assignment, you'll need to select Smart suggestions first.
  4. Review the acknowledgment form and click the acknowledge check box.
  5. Click Accept.
Once your acknowledgment has been saved, the Driver Mappings section appears on the page. This is where you can review and approve your driver suggestions.

Automatic template generation

MyGeotab automatically prepares driver templates for your review.

After activating Smart Driver ID, MyGeotab begins preparing templates. This process usually takes about one week. During this period, MyGeotab uses AI to:

  • Build profile pictures for each driver

  • Start learning which face belongs to which driver

  • Prepare the system for consistent automated assignments

No user action is required during this period.

Assigning templates to drivers

Once your templates are ready, you can assign driver mappings to drivers in your fleet.

  1. Navigate to Video > Settings in the main menu.
  2. Select the Smart Driver ID tab.
  3. Under Driver Mappings, click Assign Driver below each face template and select the correct driver profile that matches the template.
    Note: If there are multiple templates for the same driver, you can assign the same driver profile to each template and merge them. Multiple templates can occur when drivers change their appearance, such as wearing a hat or sunglasses.
  4. Click the Check at the bottom of the dropdown menu to confirm your selection.
Confirming the driver profiles for your templates pairs the AI-generated templates with drivers in your fleet and ensures accurate automatic assignments going forward.

Assignment modes

After the initial set up, Smart Driver ID provides two assignment modes to ensure correct trip and event assignments depending on your needs.

Once you've completed the set up for Smart Driver ID and assigned templates to your drivers, MyGeotab provides two assignment modes to assign drivers to trips and events.

Auto-assignment mode

Auto-assignment mode uses AI to auto-assign a driver to trips and video events. The AI detection takes one of two actions for each assignment:

  • If the AI is confident that the driver in question matches the template, it auto-assigns the driver to the trip or event with no approval needed.

  • If the AI is not confident in the match between the driver and the template, it generates a driver suggestion instead. Administrators can review and accept suggestions to help ensure records are accurate.

Suggestion mode

In this mode, the AI provides a suggested driver for every trip and video event. It does not auto-assign drivers, and Administrators must manually approve the suggestions.

Reviewing driver suggestions

Learn how to review AI-generated driver suggestions for your trips and video events.

If you have suggestion mode enabled for Smart Driver ID, or if the auto-assignment AI is not confident in a match between a driver profile and a template, you'll need to review the suggested driver for trips and video events.
  1. Navigate to Video > Settings in the main menu.
  2. Select the Smart Driver ID tab.
  3. Under Driver Mappings, select the Pending Suggestions tab.
  4. Review the suggested drivers:
    • If the suggestion is correct, click the Check button.
    • If the suggestion is incorrect, click the driver name and select the correct driver profile. Click the Check button.