FleetFusion, part of the FleetSafe Group, has launched a new, open, industry standard for detecting if video evidence has been tampered with in commercial fleet situations.

Public blockchain anchoring brings independent, vendor-neutral verification to dashcam footage

Dubbed SecureFusion, the new initiative enables video evidence captured by commercial vehicle cameras to be cryptographically verified as being unmodified. This verification can be carried out by anyone, at any time, without the need to trust the platform that produced the evidence.

SecureFusion is designed to address the long-standing lack of vendor-neutral, trustworthy dashcam evidence by anchoring a cryptographic fingerprint of every video to public blockchains upon ingestion.

This makes potential tampering detectable by any independent party, anywhere in the world.

Simon Marsh, CEO of FleetFusion, explained: “Fleet video is increasingly becoming the deciding factor in insurance claims, regulatory cases and court proceedings. But until now, there has been no neutral way for anyone outside the platform to confirm that a clip has or hasn’t been tampered with. SecureFusion changes that. It moves the trust anchor from ‘the vendor says so’ to ‘the public blockchain confirms it’ – and we’re releasing it as an open standard precisely because evidence integrity should never be the property of a single company.”

When a vehicle camera delivers a video to a SecureFusion-compliant platform, the file is hashed using SHA-256 before any processing takes place. A canonical event record – capturing the vehicle, time, location, channel hashes and other metadata – is then anchored to two blockchains:

• The XRP Ledger provides instant, low-cost confirmation within seconds of capture, with the full event record written directly into the transaction itself.
• Bitcoin, via the Open Timestamps protocol, provides a long-term archival anchor with the deepest legal precedent of any public chain that is defensible in court.

Compliant video players display a SecureFusion badge, allowing operators to see at a glance that a clip has been verified and hence is reliable. A free public verification site allows literally anyone – insurer, lawyer, journalist or family member – to drop a video file into their browser and confirm independently whether it is genuine or not. The video file never leaves their machine; only its hash is checked against the public ledger.

SecureFusion is being released as an open industry standard so that any telematics provider, camera manufacturer, fleet platform or insurer can implement it. The specification, schema, transaction format and reference verifier are published for public scrutiny.

“This solution only works effectively if it is open,” continued Matt Redfearn, CTO of FleetFusion. “A blockchain feature owned by one vendor is a marketing claim. Having a standard implemented by the whole industry and that anyone can verify without permission is something a court can rely on. We’d rather have multiple platforms implementing SecureFusion than one platform owning it outright.”

The standard is governed through a neutral, community-led process drawing on input from fleet operators, insurers, telematics vendors and regulators. Versioning ensures that as the standard evolves to incorporate hardware-signed capture, qualified timestamps or post-quantum signatures, historical anchors remain verifiable indefinitely.

The innovation benefits fleets, insurers, regulators and the public.

Fleet operators gain video evidence that carries dependable weight in disputes, regardless of which platform produced it. This eliminates vendor lock-in regarding evidential value.

Insurers can verify clips themselves, reducing fraud, accelerating claims and lowering investigation costs.

Drivers gain the right to prove that any exonerating footage they may present is genuine, thereby addressing a long-standing imbalance in incident disputes.

Regulators gain a vendor-neutral evidence standard.

The new standard is clear about what it covers. SecureFusion proves that a video file has not been modified since its ingestion into a compliant platform. However, it does not, in V1, prove the authenticity of the original capture itself; this is something that requires hardware-level signing inside the camera, a feature targeted for a future version of the standard. SecureFusion also does not expose any driver or vehicle private data – only cryptographic hashes and pseudonymous identifiers are written to public chains.

FleetFusion has delivered the first reference implementation of SecureFusion through its FleetFusion vehicle media pipelines to customers who have requested it, with public anchors expected to begin customer-wide in May. Details about the specifications, conformance tests and open-source reference verifier will also be published at that time.

To make the solution as applicable industry-wide as possible, other telematics platforms, camera manufacturers, insurers, fleet operators and regulators interested in participating in the development of the standard are invited to make contact with FleetFusion.