Many businesses rely on legacy GPS systems for tracking, but those systems weren’t built to provide visual context. As the demand for greater safety, accountability and visibility grows, camera data has become increasingly essential for businesses in a range of industries. Yet there is a common perception that integrating it means starting from scratch. But that’s not the case.
Rather than replacing systems, Inauro helps businesses integrate camera and GPS tracking into their existing workflows using Perspio™, bringing context and clarity to operations without disruption or rework.
In this article, Josh Yeamans, Inauro’s Head of North America, explains the importance of camera data, the limitations of legacy systems and how businesses can bridge the gap.
Why add camera solutions to existing telematics and GPS systems?
Traditional GPS and telemetry platforms often provide a limited view, focused mostly on location, vehicle speed and engine diagnostics metrics. That data is useful, but without visual context, it often tells only half the story.
Integrating GPS camera solutions adds critical insight into fleet operations by capturing what’s happening in and around the asset. These camera systems help:
- support incident reviews with accurate footage
- promote safer driving by identifying and addressing unsafe behaviours such as mobile phone use, fatigue and distraction
- provide documentation to support compliance with safety protocols
- assist with driver exoneration in cases of false or disputed claims
- contribute to insurance savings by lowering risk profiles and supporting safer practices
- monitor asset condition and flag damage early through visual checks.
Whether it’s a forward-facing dashcam, a dual-facing unit, or a multi-camera system covering the full perimeter of the vehicle or asset, visual data helps provide context to the GPS information. That level of transparency is becoming a baseline expectation, particularly in industries managing compliance, high-value assets or customer deliveries, such as logistics, construction, mining, utilities and civil works.
“It’s not just about capturing footage,” explains Josh. “It’s about being able to go back and reconstruct the full picture – delivery data, location history, even scanned parcels – to resolve issues quickly.”
The best integrated dash cam systems for telematics combine visibility, tracking, and driver insights in real time.
Integration doesn’t mean replacement
A major barrier for many fleet and equipment managers is the belief that integrating cameras means overhauling their entire GPS and telematics systems – ripping out existing devices, retraining teams and managing extended vehicle downtime.
But there’s a smarter alternative: retrofitting through integration.
At Inauro, for example, we work with what your business already has, whether it’s fleet GPS tracking and cameras from different vendors or a single-platform solution that’s missing some key functionality. There is no one-size-fits-all system, so we work with businesses to layer on the capabilities they need.
Josh explains: “Say a company is growing by acquisition and has different technologies between subsidiaries, we help them normalise the data from those different systems without increasing capital expenditure.”
In other words, it’s not about swapping systems. It’s about proactive device monitoring and getting the systems you already use to work better together.
Integrated GPS cameras help streamline fleet visibility and driver accountability
Inauro’s approach to camera integration
With the power of AI, Perspio™ brings together telemetry, camera events, driver behaviour data and more in one seamless system. The platform connects with third-party platforms, tools and devices, meaning there’s no need to switch vendors or replace existing equipment.
“Most camera systems pull telemetry data for 15 to 30 seconds before and after a triggered event,” says Josh. “But what’s often missing is the ability to see what led up to that moment, and that context usually happens several minutes before the event.
“Without blending camera footage and telematics data more holistically, you risk missing the bigger picture of driver behaviour or asset performance.
“Perspio brings them into one unified view.”
Josh gives the example of a logistics operator using Perspio™ to overlay live dashcam feeds onto their vehicle tracking maps. If a driver reports an issue or simply doesn’t respond to a check-in, the operations team can view the footage instantly. There are no phone calls, no guesswork, just the information they need to make a call, resolve the issues, and keep things moving.
And that’s just one use case. Once integrated, GPS camera data connected through Perspio™ can be used to:
- trigger real-time safety alerts and coaching workflows
- improve incident response with complete trip histories
- support insurance claims with blended data timelines
- monitor PPE compliance and driver behaviour automatically
- identify maintenance issues early, based on visual cues or detected anomalies.
These insights can also be used to automate actions across your operations, saving time and reducing manual intervention. And they’re not just for road vehicles. These systems are increasingly being used on heavy equipment like excavators and loaders to improve awareness and reduce the risk to pedestrians on busy sites.
Josh says these integrations improve data quality and remove administrative burdens: “We still find people using Excel spreadsheets, doing bulk work, manual emails, and action assignments. They’re spending 20 to 30 hours a week just doing the admin.”
By using Perspio™ to automate workflows across fleet, safety, and compliance teams, organisations can reduce admin and finally get full value from their existing tech. No duplication, no downtime.
The case for camera integration is strong. “Vendors like Motive have reported up to an 80% reduction in collisions within the first year of installing dashcams,” says Josh. “Lytx and Samsara have shared similar results, showing significant improvements in safety, reduced insurance claims and operational cost savings.
Plug in, don’t start over, with Inauro
The combination of camera and GPS tracking data delivers a richer, more accurate view of your operations. Whether you’re reviewing driver behaviour, responding to a claim or tracking deliveries, visual context can make the difference between uncertainty and clarity.
And with Inauro’s flexible, vendor-agnostic model, integrating this technology doesn’t mean overhauling your entire setup. “It could be the case that you don’t need more products or systems; you just need them to talk better to each other,” says Josh. “And that’s exactly what we do.”
Talk to us about integrating fleet tracking and camera solutions without starting from scratch. Whether you’re looking for the best integrated dash cam systems for telematics or simply want your current GPS and camera data to work together, we’ll help you find it.
