Clovis Unified upgraded cameras on its school buses giving them quicker access to video

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Cameras are ever rolling arsenic much than 160 Clovis Unified buses transport thousands of students everyday.

In the past, erstwhile an incidental occurred, administrators would person to hold for the autobus to instrumentality to the gait earlier they could entree the video.

Chief Technology Office Raj Nagra says present that they've upgraded the cameras, that's each changed.

"So there's cipher watching the cameras each the time, but erstwhile they request to spell look astatine a camera, present they tin beauteous overmuch bash that instantaneously. It doesn't substance if the autobus is connected oregon off," Nagra said.

The cameras are unreality connected with artificial quality and enactment done information level Verkada.

Video is perpetually uploading to the cloud, and administrators tin look unrecorded astatine immoderate autobus from an app oregon a computer.

They tin spot wherever the autobus is presently and wherever it's been.

Administrators tin way down video successful a assortment of ways, whether that's from the autobus number, the clip an incidental happened oregon the determination wherever an incidental happened.

"So if we cognize the address, similar the genitor calls and said, hey, thing happened successful beforehand of my address, they tin benignant successful that code astatine a peculiar time, and it would propulsion up each autobus that was successful that country astatine that time," Nagra said.

With the caller exertion astatine administrators digit tips, Nagra hopes it builds assurance with territory parents.

"I anticipation it conscionable benignant of makes them consciousness a small spot safer, We're trying to amended exertion to marque things easier not lone for our staff, but to marque things amended for our drivers and our students. Just truthful they cognize that we've ever had cameras connected our buses. We're conscionable upgrading them to really conscionable hopefully amended information and marque everybody remainder a small spot easier astatine night. At slightest there's thing connected the autobus if thing happens," Nagra.

All of the camera footage is stored for 30 days successful the unreality earlier it is automatically overwritten.

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