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Lytx Launches Surfsight AI-14 Dash Cam

Lytx’s new Surfsight AI-14 is designed to help fleets to elevate safety, reduce liability, and attain best-in-class performance.

Lytx Surfsight AI-14 dash cam.

The Lytx Surfsight AI-14 dash camera uses visual and audio in-cab alerts help keep drivers attentive and focused.

Photo: Lytx

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Lytx has launched the Lytx Surfsight AI-14 dash cam. The new unit features the next generation of Lytx’s machine vision and artificial intelligence (MV+AI) technology.

According to Lytx, the AI-14 dash cam offers greater risk detection, durability, intelligence, global coverage, and versatile privacy controls to meet the evolving needs of fleets and ecosystem partners across the globe.

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Designed for Future Technologies

The AI-14 is built on the culmination of decades of Lytx’s video safety expertise and innovation, the company said.

According to Lytx, the global demand for smarter, safer, and more efficient fleet solutions is accelerating. To meet those needs, the AI-14 is designed emerges not just to meet today’s challenges, but to deliver future innovations.

The AI-14 offers fleets beneficial insights, real-time risk detection, and the power to elevate fleet safety and efficiency, the company said. 

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“Centered on improving fleet and driver safety, the AI-14 was developed for evolving reseller partner and fleet needs and delivers a flexible, open platform, powerful hardware, configurability, and enables fast time to market,” said Casey McGee, chief revenue officer at Lytx. “With these enterprise-ready devices being deployed now, our reseller partners and fleets worldwide are better equipped to meet the unique challenges of the road and their daily operations.” 

Powered with the AI-14 dash cam, Lytx Surfsight delivers: 

  • Proactive Risk Detection: On-board award-winning MV+AI technology to proactively identify and detect driving risk at the edge. 

  • Real-Time Driver Alerts: Visual and audio in-cab alerts help keep drivers attentive and focused, promoting safer road habits. 

  • Integrated Touchscreen: The only dash cam in its class with an LCD touchscreen, making installation, configuration, and operation intuitive and efficient. 

  • Configurable Audio Recording: Flexible audio recording options can enable the capture of sound inside and outside the vehicle.

  • Road-Facing ADAS Features: Includes following distance, critical distance, and rolling stop. Pedestrian detection and red light detection will be added soon. 

  • Passenger Limit: Notifies fleets when cabin occupancy exceeds the defined threshold and captures valuable data to support investigations, enforce policy, and recover assets.

  • Tamper-Resistant Design: Built to deter unauthorized removal, vandalism, and theft for added security and reliability. 

  • Event Tagging Made Easy: Convenient record buttons let drivers mark key events, simplifying video review and retrieval. 

  • Seamless Updates: Over-the-air firmware updates ensure the device stays current, eliminating the need for manual downloads. 

“Surfsight AI-14 elevates and enhances what our reseller partners and fleets already love about the Surfsight platform, such as the lens as a sensor setting, which captures risk without recording, and streaming recorded video on demand,” said Rajesh Rudraradhya, chief technology officer at Lytx. “Our innovation helps protect a world in motion and we’re driven by fleets who prioritize telematics and want to add video, while also keeping safety top of mind. The AI-14 will continue to support those endeavors with fatigue detection and as new front-facing ADAS features like pedestrian and red light detection are added.” 

The Lytx Surfsight AI-14 is available now in North America and will be released in other regions in the coming months (release dates vary by region). 

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For Geotab customers, it will be available through their Order Now program starting in September 2025.

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