One camera answers a tenth of it.
A forward-facing camera covers the road ahead at road speed. The damage, the struck-by risk and the disputed invoice all sit at low speed, alongside and behind the vehicle, where it is pointing at nothing.
MANTIS FOR CONSTRUCTION & CONCRETE
The site changes every day. Your evidence should not depend on the weather.
Construction and concrete fleets work where cameras go to die: mud, dust, washdown bays, tight reversing and sites with no signal. Multi-camera coverage, connectivity that follows the strongest network, and a daily report that tells you which cameras are actually working.
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ILLUSTRATIVE VEHICLE / APPLICATION VIEWTippers, concrete mixers, loader-crane lorries and construction support fleets
WHY CONSTRUCTION IS DIFFERENT
The risk is at three miles an hour, not seventy.
Almost nothing that costs a construction fleet money happens in front of the truck at speed. It happens alongside, behind, and while the body is up, on a site whose layout changed yesterday.
Reversing onto a site nobody surveyed since yesterday.
Gates, scaffold, stacked materials, other people’s plant and pedestrians who should not be there. Layouts move daily, so the manoeuvre a driver did safely last week is a different manoeuvre this morning.
The gate, the kerb, the slab.
Damage gets attributed to whichever vehicle was on site last. Without footage the invoice arrives and the argument is already over, and the same is true of an injury allegation from site staff you do not employ.
Top-heavy vehicles roll on turns that look routine.
A loaded mixer or a raised tipper body behaves nothing like the truck the driver learned on. The cornering that causes a rollover shows up months before the rollover does, if anyone is looking.
Disputes about the pour are time-critical.
Arrival inside the discharge window, the drum turning, what happened at the chute. When a slab fails weeks later the bill lands on the concrete unless the record says otherwise.
The sites that need proof most have no signal.
Quarries, cuttings, basements and rural new-build. If the unit cannot upload, the evidence sits on a card in a vehicle two counties away, and live view is no use to anybody.
These are the patterns MANTIS sees across construction and concrete fleets rather than published statistics, and no figure is claimed for any of them. Your own exposure depends on your sites, your vehicles and the work you take on.
RECON ON SITE
Predict the risk. Prevent the collision. Prove what happened.
The same three streams as the rest of the platform, tuned to a vehicle that spends its working day off the road.
Rollover behaviour, months before the rollover.
Harsh cornering and G-force events arrive with the video attached, so the driving behind a rollover is a coaching conversation rather than a write-off, an injury and a claim. Scores are relative comparisons for deciding where to look first, not a forecast that anything will happen.
Fewer low-speed hits on the sites you serve.
Rear, side and load views cover the blind spots where the knocks happen, so the driver sees what they are backing into and the gate, the scaffold and the parked van stay intact. In-cab assistance supports the driver’s judgement and your safe system of work rather than replacing either.
Settled on footage, not on whoever shouts first.
Pull the clip remotely and share it. Damage claims, injury allegations, missed deliveries and disputed time on site, all answered with time-stamped multi-angle video instead of a statement taken three weeks later.
Risk scores in RECON examples use demo data. A harsh cornering event may be a defensive manoeuvre: review the footage, the context and the driver’s account before drawing a conclusion, and never let a score alone decide an employment, underwriting or liability outcome. On Demand retrieval depends on power, connectivity and retention settings.
THE QUESTIONS THAT MATTER
A view of your everyday challenges.
An invoice for damage you did not do
Find the vehicle, the trip and the time, then the approach and working-area views around it, before the account is settled on somebody else’s word.
A pour that goes to dispute
Line up arrival, the drum and the chute against the delivery record while the job is still fresh, rather than weeks later when the slab is the subject.
A fleet split across sites with no signal
Plan retention and retrieval around the sites you actually work, so a vehicle in a quarry is not a vehicle you cannot reach.
WHAT GOES ON THE VEHICLE
Cameras chosen by position, and driven by the vehicle.
A construction or concrete configuration puts cameras where the job goes wrong, and lets the body going up or the drum turning decide what records and what the driver sees.
- Forward and sides. Road ahead, site approach, and the nearside where the kerb, the scaffold and the cyclist are.
- Rear and working area. Reversing, the tipping or discharge zone, and anyone standing in it who should not be.
- Load, drum or chute. A view of the job itself, so a pour or a tip leaves a record rather than a delivery note.
- In cab, optional. Driver-facing camera with on-device AI covering driver monitoring, blind spot and road-ahead detections. Privacy settings, retention and access are agreed with your drivers before it goes live.
- Rated for the wash cycle. Side and rear cameras are IP69K rated for high-pressure, high-temperature washdown, with humidity to 95% and anti-vibration construction through the camera and the recorder.
- Driven by the vehicle. Eight trigger inputs and CAN let the body, the drum or a switch decide what records and which view reaches the monitor. Dual memory cards and built-in power-loss protection keep the recording when the vehicle does not cooperate.
Camera positions, counts, ratings and AI detections depend on the configuration selected for each vehicle type. IP69K, 95% humidity and the anti-vibration construction are from the S20 side and R20 rear camera specifications; operating range is -20°C to +75°C on those cameras and -30°C to +70°C on the recorder. Confirm the rating for every position in your own configuration. A single forward camera is not a construction configuration.
Explore multi-camera systemsMANTIS HEALTH
How many of your cameras worked this morning?
This matters more on a construction fleet than anywhere else, because the mud that makes the footage valuable is the same mud that obscures the lens.
A report every morning
Video loss, memory faults and vehicles that have gone offline, emailed to the people you nominate.
Cases raised for you
A critical memory fault raises a support case automatically, so the first-line checks start before you log anything.
Help when a claim is moving
Footage retrieval support for the days when the clip is needed fast, and warranty replacement handled inside the subscription.
Offline is not proof of camera failure, and monitoring alone does not guarantee useful recording or retrievable footage. A dirty lens is not always visible to a health check. Whether a vehicle with a reported fault keeps working is a decision under your own safe system of work. Warranty replacement excludes installation.
WHY THESE VEHICLES BREAK OTHER CAMERAS
Three things decide whether you still have working cameras in year three.
None of them is the camera on the windscreen.
CONNECTIVITY
Most camera SIMs have a favourite network. Ours does not.
Most multi-network devices are steered. They hold a preferred carrier and switch only when it drops out completely, so a weak signal on the preferred network beats a strong one from the wrong network.
MANTIS runs unsteered multi-network connectivity. The device looks for the best available network and connects to whichever is strongest where the vehicle is standing. For a fleet working quarries, cuttings and rural new-build, that is the difference between live view and no signal.
Worth asking whoever supplies your cameras today whether the SIM is single-carrier or steered. Most fleets have never been told.
Where no major carrier has coverage, no device can help. The claim is that MANTIS uses the network that works, not that coverage is everywhere. Uncapped data is subject to fair use policy, and network coverage, roaming, plan availability and retrieval performance vary by region and configuration.
ENVIRONMENT
Rated for the washdown bay, not the windscreen.
Externals in this configuration are rated IP69K where high-pressure, high-temperature washdown is part of the daily cycle, with humidity to 95% and anti-vibration construction through both the camera and the recorder.
A consumer dashcam is rated for a windscreen. Put one on a mixer chassis and the failure is a question of when, not whether.
Ratings are per component and per position. IP69K, the humidity figure and the operating ranges come from the S20 and R20 camera specifications; the recorder operates from -30°C to +70°C. Confirm the rating for each position in your configuration at the survey.
INSTALLATION
A system is only as waterproof as its worst connector.
Most camera failures on site vehicles are not camera failures. They are cabling failures.
Water gets in at the joints. MANTIS specifies the install per vehicle type: sealed connectors, cable runs routed away from chassis flex and heat, cable lengths cut so joins are not improvised on the day, and mounting positions chosen for the vehicle rather than for the installer.
Installation is quoted and carried out per vehicle type and is excluded from warranty replacement. The specification is agreed at the installation survey.
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