Parking Mode of Dash Cam：Offering A Comprehensive Parking Guard to Your Vehicle
Are you still worrying about the accident of involving into a hit-and-run while your car is parked? Are you still being in a state of anxiety about vandalism or theft to your vehicle while parked? The parking modes of dash cam mentioned in ChrisFix's video "How to SAFELY Install a Dash Camera in a Car with Airbags (Hard Wire and Rear Cam)" may show you a perfect way to sovle those kinds of problems. In this video, ChirsFix mentioned 4 parking modes of Vantrue's dash cam-Collision Detection, Motion Detection, Low Bitrate Recording and Low Framerate Mode. And all of them are allowed to be chosen for us with different needs.
The collision Detection, which was explained detailedly in his video, displays a practical feature of automatically recording a video in the event of collision with lower battray consumption. Apart from this kind of mode, the other modes are also very useful if you are in need of peace of mind and reliable performance when parking your car.
So, in this article, we are going to delve more things about parking mode. If you are also interested, join me in exploring more about it.
What is parking mode？
Definition
The term 'Parking Mode' is used to express a video mode -- that enables the dash camera to capture videos when your car is parked and the engine is off. This functionality allows the dash cam to continue recording even when the driver is not present, enabling it to capture incidents that may occur while the vehicle is unattended, which offers round-the-clock security and supervision of your vehicle.
Parking mode in the dash cam ensures immediate recording whenever its G-sensor detects any motion while your vehicle is parked and the engine is off. Parking mode eliminates the need to leave the camera continuously on when you park your car, which helps to minimize unnecessary recording time and save energy.
Types of parking mode
Parking Mode operates as a sentry function under different situations. You can turn on different parking monitoring modes according to different parking situations. There are four modes provided for you to choose to get comprehensive protection.Motion Detection
Low Bitrate Recording
Low Framerate Mode
Models with impact detection, however, will be able to not only record footage when an impact is detected but will also store these files away in a separate folder. So they can be easily reviewed in the video folder and well protected from being overwritten by successive files. Later on, you can retrieve the crucial footage of the incident to claim the insurance or pass the file to the police.
Motion detection is of great significance when you park or leave your vehicle for a long amount of time. That's because it can automatically detect any movement, as well as a change in light that is in view of the lens of the camera.
When the front camera detects the movement of an object, it will wake up and automatically start recording for 30 seconds and save the recording in the usual video folder. And also when the motion Detection is turned on, and no movement is detected, then the screen will turn off after 3 minutes. This type of parking mode is the most energy efficient.
Besides, an innovative feature of Motion detection provided by Vanture makes the monitoring more efficient-“area selection” function. This function allows you to focus on specific areas of your car's surroundings, rather than constantly monitoring everything within range.
Motion Zones let you focus on specific areas you want your dash cam to cover and help reduce the number of "false" motion recordings. By customizing these zones and excluding high-traffic areas like public paths and roads, you can greatly increase your device's effectiveness and reduce the number of false motion recordings during park time, such as cars driving by or trees moving in the distance.
What is Bitrate? Bitrate is the number of bits per second. The symbol is bit/s. It generally determines the size and quality of video and audio files: the higher the bitrate, the better the quality, and the larger the file size.
The low bitrate recording aims to help you save hours of footage as small files (1080P@15FPS or 720P@15FPS) to save SD card space.
If no movement is detected after 5 minutes of recording, the resolution of all current video will be automatically switched to 1080P 15FPS or 720P 15FPS for recording, and the recording duration will be determined according to the currently set loop recording duration while greatly improving memory card storage efficiency. When the camera vibrates or is moved, it will automatically exit, wait 5 minutes, and enter again.
Frame rate is the number of pictures/frames that appear in the video every single second. In the most straightforward explanation, the frame rate is nothing but the playback speed of the video.
The low Framerate mode is integrated with the parking mode to record time-lapsed videos while your car is parked. Time-lapse refers to a mode of video recording enabling a camera to record at 1FPS (one frame per second). Upon playback, at a standard 30FPS, everything appears to be rolling faster than the average speed, which is called time-lapse video.
That is, each one-minute video recorded covers a 30-minute period. This Low Framerate practically helps you save your time while watching extensive footage – such as two hours long parking footage.
In conclusion, Low Framerate Mode can be considered as a leisure activity setting and not for use in order to collect evidence and it helps to save your memory card space if less capacity. Besides, it practically saves your time by speeding up the recorded long-duration videos.
Vantrue Conclusion
Nowadays, vehicle security has become more important than ever, and parking mode on dash cam plays a vital role in protecting our personality property. By offering continuous monitoring while the vehicle is parked, these devices provide enhanced security, peace of mind, and valuable evidence in the unfortunate event of theft or damage. Ultimately, whether for personal safety, insurance benefits, or simply peace of mind, parking modes are a crucial feature that every dash cam user should consider.
