The reality is, there are aspects to a school bus camera system hosted on the cloud that may not immediately come to mind when the high-pressure commission salesperson is guiding your district down that path to their high commission sales profits. Therein lies the problem in accepting the sales pitch of convenience and a carefree solution for the school bus cameras on your buses.
To start, the salesperson pressuring your district to buy cloud-based third-party solutions does not share the same goals as your district. A simple comparison of the goals of each party can make that easier to understand.
A cloud-based solutions provider is interested in:
- Making the sale to your district
- Profiting from the sale to your district.
-Their commission is based on the dollar amount of the sale.
-The more your district spends, the higher their commission.
Your school district is interested in:
-Making the school bus safe for children
-Making the school bus safe for the bus drivers
-Limiting the school district's risk and liability on the bus
-Documenting events that may be used in court
-Ability to immediately review school bus camera video files
-Chain of custody for all video file evidence
The above differing interests illustrate that the seller of the cloud-based solutions has a very different set of goals than the purchaser of the cloud-based Special Needs Wheelchair School Bus Video Surveillance Camera solution.
Their interests are primarily profit-driven, with their incentive to sell you the highest-cost, most monthly-based cash-generating solution so that after the sale, they continue to make profits hand over fist as long as you own and use the equipment they sold you. This may be why there are no endless high-pressure sales calls soliciting church and religious ministries to purchase their Transportation Ministry Youth Activities Church Bus Camera Systems, because they understand most religions are principle-based and seek value, not just another opportunity to spend taxpayer funds to prevent losing that baseline budgeting funds in the future.
The last thing they want to offer is an affordable school bus camera solution that is managed and entirely contained and controlled by the school district, as there is no recurring cash stream in that business model, so nothing for them to profit on after the sale. The cellular cash cow of endless streaming profits to the seller has businesses all addicted to the concept of never-ending profits after the sale.
Potential dangers to your school district that are not addressed by their high-pressure salesperson can cause problems in the future.
What They Do Not Say, Can Hurt Your District:
An unaccountable third-party cloud-based solution means your school district must give up its agency and allow unaccountable third-party personnel to have the video data files from your school buses.
Allowing unaccountable third-party personnel access to video files of small children on a bus without district-level oversight over who views these files, what they do with them, and whether the vehicle has GPS tracking—such as where children get on and off, and at what times—should be a serious concern for those responsible for the safety and security of those children.
The fact that a school district would willingly provide this kind of child location and timing information to anyone outside the district is unthinkable, and the fact that others have not realized it serves as an unnecessary invitation for child abduction and pedophile kidnapping. These individuals may sell this information, if not already working within these cloud-based data centers, to those involved in child sex markets.
Those who think this a non-risk to the schools may want to consider how much is spent on a School Bus Stop Arm Cameras:
https://schoolbuscamera.com/school-bus-stop-arm-.php
And while it is estimated that each state spends several millions of dollars annually to try to protect and prevent children from accidental injury or death during loading or unloading, the reality is the number is much less than one may think. Most states have no incidence of these Stop Arm Camera injuries or deaths to children on those buses, yet they still spend millions on them.
From Safe Fleet.
(https://www.safefleet.net/blog/school-bus-stop-arm-violations-resulting-in-child-injury-and-fatality/)
“Eight students were killed in school bus loading and unloading accidents in the 2016-2017 school year.”
While 8 children injured or killed due to stop arm violation is tragic, the potential for hundreds more children at risk exists if someone in one of these unaccountable third-party cloud-based data centers decides to go down that dark path and sell that information to nefarious others. The reality is that this will make every child in those cloud-based solutions networks a target for the worst kinds of people in this world.
The information below from a child protective group should give a better idea of what can happen to children in the US, and what can happen if someone in an unaccounted third-party cloud-based data center sells your district's child video files to others.
The liability to your district is massive, the loss of children your district is charged with protecting is real, and the litigation settlements could put public school systems at the forefront for AI implementation to quickly replace all public schools with online-based education.
Coursepivot Assignment Help Service, USA, Texas
(https://coursepivot.com/blog/child-abduction-statistics-by-year-in-the-us/)
Non-Family Abductions: Rare but Riveting Realities Stranger abductions grab headlines, yet US child abduction numbers annually for non-family cases stay low. NCMEC’s analysis of 2016-2020 reports tallied 366 incidents—averaging 73 yearly—with 97% recoveries, 95% alive. Victims skewed young (mean age 6), 65% female; 65% knew the abductor (e.g., acquaintance), while true strangers accounted for 35%.
“Stereotypical” kidnappings—stranger seizures for ransom, sex, or murder—hover at 100-115 yearly, per OJJDP’s 2011 law enforcement study, with no sharp rises through 2024. In 2020-2023, online enticement surged 300%, blending into non-family risks, as NCMEC noted 41% of offenders over 10 years older than victims.
Cloud-based school bus camera solutions can increase risk for your district.
Whenever you have an unaccountable third-party cloud-based solution, you face potential chain of custody issues if the video files of events are to be used in court.One of the most common reasons for cameras on school buses is to record events on the bus in video format, in case they are needed in court. In court litigation, chain-of-custody issues can render valuable video evidence inadmissible. The entire cost of the high-tech, high monthly-fee solution becomes useless and has no value if it cannot do what it was purchased for.
Video file access issues that require third-party access to view or download any video files on your school bus are, we hope, subject to a user password-protected login to their servers. When the third party has issues, gets hacked, or goes out of business, your files are not accessible.
Private Sector companies of ABV overwhelmingly refuse Cloud-based Vehicle Safety Camera solutions due to a lack of accountability with unaccountable third-party cloud service providers.
The largest manufacturers of industrial material handling equipment incorporate our Forklift HD Industrial Operator Safety Camera System
on their fleets of skid loaders, forklifts, or stand-up order pickers and lift trucks sold in the past were requested for on-site solutions that do not involve the valuable video data files leaving their possession or jurisdiction.
The fact that we offer a cellular-based solution that can be managed on a CMS software server and then uploaded to a cloud-based solution, for remote access and they never once requested that, lets me know the risk management professionals in one of the most dangerous employee occupations (OSHA Employee Injuries) understand the risk of letting others access their video files and evidence data.
Some of the largest Terminal Trailer Warehouse facilities now use our Warehouse Terminal 5th Wheel King Pin Trailer Swapping Yard Mule Camera, and they keep all video file data housed to prevent unauthorized third parties from accessing it, maintaining a secure chain of custody that may be necessary in court litigation in case of events or accidents.
Law enforcement agencies equip their large transport vehicles with our Police Patrol Wagon Suspect, Prisoner & Inmate in-Custody Transport Camera-equipped vehicles, and again, none even requested the cloud-based solutions as they cannot afford the risk of having others view their transport files.
Rural Area Paratransit Driver Safety Video Camera Surveillance Systems are used to protect the passengers as well as the Medicaid providers of some of the rural area transport contractors. We have sold only on-site solutions in the past, and those solutions do not involve the valuable video data files leaving their possession or jurisdiction, and placing it in the hands of an unaccountable third party in some managed solution like a cloud account.
Should you have any questions or concerns or require more information about Testudo Lifetime System Warranty School Bus Camera Systems, various applications or School Bus Student Transportation Video Camera Recorder configurations, please let us know. We will be happy to draw on our 40+ years of market experience in the sales and service of digital recording devices to address your concerns or questions.
