How Streamax Helps Light Truck Fleets Manage Risk
Streamax’s full-cycle risk management solution helps light truck fleets identify risks, support drivers, manage accidents, and improve safety.
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For commercial vehicles, visibility around the vehicle is closely linked to operational safety. Large vehicle dimensions, elevated driving positions, and complex operating environments can create significant blind spots, particularly in areas immediately around the front, rear, and sides of the vehicle.
These near-field blind spots become more critical during low-speed maneuvers such as starting, turning, reversing, parking, and navigating narrow roads. Pedestrians, cyclists, smaller vehicles, and low-profile obstacles may be difficult for drivers to identify in time.
As vehicle safety regulations increasingly emphasize blind-spot reduction, vulnerable road user protection, and near-field hazard detection, commercial vehicle safety is moving beyond simply improving visibility toward actively identifying and mitigating potential risks.
The EU General Safety Regulation (EU) 2019/2144, for example, introduces requirements aimed at improving direct visibility and reducing blind spots around vehicles, while also introducing advanced safety systems such as reversing detection and advanced emergency braking. This regulatory direction is accelerating the evolution of AVM from a visualization function toward intelligent perception and active safety support.
China is also moving toward stronger regulatory requirements for AVM. Proposed by China’s Ministry of Transport, the mandatory national standard Technical Conditions and Test Methods for the Use of Around View Monitoring Systems on Commercial Vehicles (Plan No. 20254331-Q-348) has recently completed its public consultation phase. It should be noted that the standard is still in draft stage and its final technical requirements are subject to change. Product configurations are designed with reference to the general direction of the draft and do not represent a claim of full compliance with the final mandatory standard.
This regulatory shift reflects a broader industry trend: AVM is evolving from an optional or recommended visualization feature into an increasingly important component of commercial vehicle safety. The next generation of AVM must therefore do more than display the vehicle's surroundings, it needs to perceive potential hazards, assess risk, and support timely safety responses.
This is driving the evolution of AVM from a surround-view visualization function into a more intelligent vehicle perception and active safety capability.
Traditional AVM combines four wide-angle cameras mounted around the vehicle with distortion correction and image-stitching algorithms to generate a seamless 360° bird's-eye view. This gives drivers a more comprehensive view of the vehicle's immediate surroundings.
Streamax's active AVM takes this capability further by adding AI-based perception. Within the system's designed field of view and under specified operating conditions,the same surround-view cameras and computing platform can detect and track pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles, and other potential hazards across the front, rear, left, and right sides of the vehicle. By combining object information with vehicle speed, gear position, turn-signal status, steering angle, and object movement, the system can assess whether a target enters a predefined risk zone.
Based on the assessed risk and configured safety functions, Active AVM can provide graded visual or audible warnings and, where applicable, request braking intervention .The system is designed as a driver-assistance feature. It does not replace the driver's responsibility to maintain full attention and control. System performance may be affected by weather, lighting, sensor occlusion, and other environmental factors.This supports near-field safety scenarios such as front and rear collision mitigation and right-turn safety assistance, helping extend AVM from visual awareness to active safety support.
The shared use of cameras and computing resources also allows AVM to serve as a common visual perception layer for multiple near-field safety functions, including MOIS, BSIS, and reversing-related detection. With configurable camera positions, fields of view, calibration parameters, and risk zones, the solution can be adapted to different vehicle dimensions and installation conditions, while supporting integration with CAN networks, vehicle displays, and domain controllers across M2/M3 buses and N2/N3 trucks.This capability depends on vehicle-side interface compatibility and may require project-specific validation.
In this way, AVM evolves from simply showing what is around the vehicle to helping the vehicle perceive, assess, and respond to potential risks.
Active AVM goes beyond providing a 360° view. By combining surround-view imaging with AI-based perception and vehicle-state information, it helps drivers identify potential hazards earlier under typical low-speed operating conditions nd when properly installed and calibrated and supports safer responses during starting, turning, reversing, and parking.
By reusing cameras, computing resources, and vehicle interfaces, Active AVM can also simplify the integration of multiple near-field safety functions and adapt to different commercial vehicle platforms. From better visibility to earlier risk recognition and active safety support, Streamax helps commercial vehicles move toward safer low-speed operations.
How is Active AVM adapted for different commercial vehicle platforms?
The solution can be configured according to vehicle dimensions, installation conditions, camera field of view, calibration parameters, and application-specific risk zones. Current applications focus on M2/M3 bus platforms, while N2/N3 truck configurations can be further adapted through project-specific testing and application based on vehicle and customer requirements.
How can AVM support multiple safety functions without duplicating hardware?
Active AVM can reuse the same surround-view cameras and computing resources as a shared visual perception layer for near-field safety functions such as MOIS, BSIS, and reversing-related detection. Depending on the function and vehicle configuration, this perception layer can work with additional sensors and vehicle-control interfaces to support graded warnings or active intervention, helping reduce duplicated hardware and simplify system integration.
What is Active AVM?
Active AVM combines 360° surround-view imaging with AI-based perception to detect and assess potential hazards around the vehicle. Beyond providing a panoramic view, it can support configured safety functions such as graded warnings and braking intervention in specific low-speed scenarios.The system is a driver-assistance feature, and the driver must remain in full control of the vehicle at all times.
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