Top 10 video recorders with GPS function | Rating of video recorders with a warning about cameras

In Ukraine, a sys­tem of auto­mat­ic record­ing of offens­es has been launched — to con­trol speed, and lat­er oth­er points of traf­fic rules, there will be auto­mat­ic cam­eras and radars. Even very care­ful dri­vers are not immune from vio­la­tions: tried to dri­ve at the pace of the flow, while over­tak­ing accel­er­at­ed a lit­tle more than allowed — you have a “let­ter of hap­pi­ness”. The prob­lem is not even to pay the fine, but what will hap­pen if you don’t pay: the con­nec­tion of the enforce­ment mech­a­nism, exec­u­tive pro­ceed­ings, pos­si­ble seizure of the car or prop­er­ty. The case when it is eas­i­er to pre­vent than to solve pos­si­ble prob­lems lat­er. And the video recorder will part­ly help with this. How exact­ly? We tell in our mate­r­i­al.

In Ukraine, a sys­tem of auto­mat­ic record­ing of offens­es has been launched — to con­trol speed, and lat­er oth­er points of traf­fic rules, there will be auto­mat­ic cam­eras and radars. Even very care­ful dri­vers are not immune from vio­la­tions: tried to dri­ve at the pace of the flow, while over­tak­ing accel­er­at­ed a lit­tle more than allowed — you have a “let­ter of hap­pi­ness”. The prob­lem is not even to pay the fine, but what will hap­pen if you don’t pay: the con­nec­tion of the enforce­ment mech­a­nism, exec­u­tive pro­ceed­ings, pos­si­ble seizure of the car or prop­er­ty. The case when it is eas­i­er to pre­vent than to solve pos­si­ble prob­lems lat­er. And the video recorder will part­ly help with this. How exact­ly? We tell in our mate­r­i­al.

DVR with GPS functionality: why you need it

Speed ​​cam­eras are sta­tion­ary, their loca­tion does not change, they are installed in more dan­ger­ous areas and streets. There­fore, it is impor­tant to reduce the speed as much as pos­si­ble in these places — and pay more atten­tion to the road, and the risk of receiv­ing a fine is low­er.

Nav­i­ga­tion maps and appli­ca­tions for smart­phones or nav­i­ga­tors will help con­trol the move­ment of cam­eras: it is enough to enter the GPS coor­di­nates into the device’s mem­o­ry.

The coor­di­nates of the loca­tion of the cam­eras are avail­able on var­i­ous infor­ma­tion sites and even on the web­site of the Police of Ukraine: no one hides these points. After all, the main goal of the Police is not to fine and col­lect more mon­ey, but to reduce the speed of cars in dan­ger­ous areas to reduce the risk of road acci­dents.

Ukrain­ian dri­vers often pre­fer the “one func­tion — one device” approach. Con­fir­ma­tion of this is the con­stant pop­u­lar­i­ty of video recorders. And what if you com­bine the recorder’s func­tions — video record­ing, pho­to shoot­ing, and GPS capa­bil­i­ties?

With the help of a GPS receiv­er, you can con­trol the speed of the car and its loca­tion. And to warn the dri­ver about approach­ing the spec­i­fied point, where the sta­tion­ary speed con­trol cam­era is locat­ed.

The idea is not new: the first recorders with GPS func­tion­al­i­ty appeared on the Ukrain­ian mar­ket 7–8 years ago. And more than two years ago, a review of Ray­ber­ry video recorders with sup­port for sim­i­lar func­tion­al­i­ty (Ray­ber­ry D4 mod­el) was pub­lished on the ITC.ua web­site.

Thanks to GPS tech­nol­o­gy, the video recorder imple­ments sev­er­al func­tions at once:

• It warns in advance (300–500 meters) about con­trol points — speed cam­eras, sur­face irreg­u­lar­i­ties, nar­row­ing of the road.
• Con­stant­ly mon­i­tors the speed of move­ment, even with­out tak­ing into account the loca­tion of the cam­eras. If you set the per­mit­ted 50 km/h in the city and exceed­ed the per­mit­ted lim­it, the recorder will beep alarm­ing­ly.
• Some mod­els, in con­nec­tion with an addi­tion­al appli­ca­tion, record and broad­cast the route of move­ment on an online map of the city or region. You can trace the entire path of the car, see the speed of move­ment, the pic­ture around, even the indi­ca­tors of the G‑sensor (overload/impact).

Depend­ing on the mod­el, the device may sup­port some or all of the above func­tions. Today there are quite a few mod­els with GPS sup­port, and we have select­ed the Top 10 most inter­est­ing devices with great func­tion­al­i­ty, a well-known name, high qual­i­ty and a good bal­ance of fea­tures and price.

Aspiring Expert 7

Full­HD video recorder Aspir­ing Expert 7 is a nov­el­ty of 2020, which offers a whole set of var­i­ous “util­i­ties”.

We must men­tion the brack­et with a mag­net­ic lock and through-feed pow­er sup­ply — this is a very con­ve­nient solu­tion that is not found on the mar­ket as often as we would like.

Thanks to it, the process of instal­la­tion or dis­man­tling is sim­pli­fied as much as pos­si­ble, there is no need to switch the pow­er cable — it is already con­nect­ed to the brack­et.

Thanks to Wi-Fi sup­port, it can be syn­chro­nized with any com­pat­i­ble device — smart­phone or tablet. To do this, you need to install a brand­ed mobile appli­ca­tion, and you can con­ve­nient­ly con­fig­ure, view or down­load record­ed con­tent.

The GPS receiv­er allows you to attach coor­di­nates to the video, and the Speed­Cam warn­ing sys­tem also works. The base is open, you can add the coor­di­nates of police radars and oth­er points to it your­self.

Car DVR Aspir­ing Expert 7

NAVITEL R1050

Want an out-of-the-box solu­tion? Then pay atten­tion to the NAVITEL R1050 video recorder — with an already built-in GPS anten­na, thanks to which the func­tions of speed con­trol and infor­ma­tion about speed cam­eras ahead are imple­ment­ed. The mod­el can warn about cam­eras 450 meters to a point with giv­en coor­di­nates.

Plus the orig­i­nal spher­i­cal case, which was made not just for the sake of design. So it was pos­si­ble to imple­ment a mov­able mount, thanks to which the recorder can be eas­i­ly and quick­ly turned to the right / left, for exam­ple, to film the process of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with a police offi­cer who stopped your car.

Car video recorder NAVITEL R1050

NAVITEL R700 GPS Dual

Want even more func­tion­al­i­ty? Take a look at the NAVITEL R700 GPS Dual DVR. Its key ben­e­fits are stat­ed direct­ly in the name.

The mod­el has a built-in GPS sig­nal receiv­er, thanks to which the func­tion­al­i­ty of speed con­trol and warn­ing about the pas­sage of spec­i­fied points is imple­ment­ed.

This dash cam comes com­plete with an option­al rear view cam­era that can be mount­ed either inside the vehi­cle on the rear win­dow or exter­nal­ly on the license plate frame. So the dri­ver gets the max­i­mum overview of the sit­u­a­tion around the car: not only in front, but also behind.

The rest of the func­tion­al­i­ty and design fea­tures are usu­al for a recorder of a sim­i­lar class: impact sen­sor (G‑sensor), Sony matrix and the abil­i­ty to record video in Full HD for­mat, auto­mat­ic switch­ing on and start of shoot­ing, etc. In gen­er­al, every­thing is expect­ed for a mod­el for $120–150.

Car video recorder NAVITEL R700 GPS Dual

Playme UNI

Anoth­er recorder in the price range up to $150. In addi­tion to the unusu­al design in the style of “tube TV from the past”, the video recorder Playme UNI is dis­tin­guished by a wide func­tion­al­i­ty “from the future”.

If you can be ready for the motion sen­sor, Wi-Fi sup­port, G‑sensor (for such mon­ey), then the traf­fic con­trol func­tion is a nice and impor­tant addi­tion for dri­vers who often have to dri­ve long dis­tances and there is a risk of falling asleep at the wheel .

Of course, the device sup­ports GPS func­tion­al­i­ty, but it is imple­ment­ed through a sep­a­rate GPS mod­ule.

Car video recorder Playme UNI

Gazer F230w

Gaz­er F230w is a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of a high class of recorders.

Six-lay­er glass optics, a sen­si­tive Sony sen­sor, a pow­er­ful proces­sor with sup­port for extend­ed dynam­ic range (WDR) allow you to record Full­HD videos of real­ly high qual­i­ty.

The Gaz­er Dash­cam mobile appli­ca­tion (for iPhone and Android) and the built-in Wi-Fi adapter enable syn­chro­niza­tion with smart­phones and tablets.

If you want to enable the cam­era warn­ing func­tion in this mod­el, you need to pur­chase the exter­nal GPS mod­ule ACG230w. In addi­tion, you will get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to record and then view traf­fic routes on Google maps.

Car video recorder Gaz­er F230w

Aspiring Alibi 5

Anoth­er exam­ple of good func­tion­al­i­ty is the Aspir­ing Ali­bi 5 mod­el with a con­ve­nient mag­net­ic latch with pow­er sup­ply (say “no” to extra wires in the car cab­in!), Wi-Fi sup­port (you can down­load videos from the recorder to your smart­phone), shock and motion sen­sors, and GPS — func­tion­al.

Final­ly, one of the key fea­tures of Aspir­ing Ali­bi 5 is the pres­ence of a sec­ond addi­tion­al cam­era to view the road sit­u­a­tion behind the car. This is a real­ly unique option for a reg­is­trar of a sim­i­lar price seg­ment — about $100.

Aspir­ing Ali­bi 5 car video recorder

Prestigio RoadScanner 700GPS

This baby Pres­ti­gio Road­Scan­ner 700GPSGR is an afford­able rep­re­sen­ta­tive of com­bo devices. Its com­pact body accom­mo­dates a rich set of pos­si­bil­i­ties.

First of all, we are inter­est­ed in the warn­ing about cam­eras, for this in this mod­el the radar detec­tor (oper­a­tion in the K, X, Ka and La ranges is ensured) and the GPS nav­i­ga­tor with pre­set coor­di­nates bases are respon­si­ble for this. They per­fect­ly com­ple­ment each oth­er, while the price of such a solu­tion is very attrac­tive.

Road­Scan­ner 700GPS pays spe­cial atten­tion to dri­ving safe­ty. Voice alerts will allow the dri­ver to be less dis­tract­ed, and the FCWS and LLW func­tions will warn of dan­ger­ous prox­im­i­ty to oth­er traf­fic par­tic­i­pants, as well as poor vis­i­bil­i­ty.

With the video record­ing func­tion, every­thing is also in order here — shoot­ing in Super­HD res­o­lu­tion with a very wide view­ing angle. Thanks to the wide dynam­ic range (WDR), daz­zling light sources (head­lights at night and the sun at bright noon) will not spoil the pic­ture.

Car video recorder Pres­ti­gio Road­Scan­ner 700GPS

Neoline X‑COP 9000C

If the pur­chase bud­get is above aver­age, take a look at uni­ver­sal devices in the “video recorder + radar detec­tor” for­mat. For exam­ple – Neo­line X‑COP 9000C.

The mod­el shoots video with a res­o­lu­tion of 1920x1080 pix­els, there are row con­trol func­tions and warn­ings about approach­ing the car in front, impact and motion sen­sors, sup­port for the GPS func­tion — speed con­trol and warn­ings about set points.

A unique fea­ture of the Neo­line X‑COP 9000C device is the pres­ence of a radar detec­tor that rec­og­nizes and warns of police speed cam­eras ahead: the ranges “X”, “K”, “Ka”, “Laser”, etc. are sup­port­ed.

If the warn­ing func­tion of sta­tion­ary GPS-based radar cam­eras will help in the city, then the radar detec­tor will be need­ed on the high­way or to warn of tem­po­rary speed con­trol posts. There are not many sim­i­lar all-in-one devices, but you can find them.

Car video recorder Neo­line X‑COP 9000C

Playme P600SG

The sec­ond exam­ple would be the Playme P600SG, which com­bines the func­tions of a video recorder and a radar detec­tor. The mod­el is equipped with impact and move­ment sen­sors, and there is a GPS sig­nal receiv­er.

One of the fea­tures of the Playme P600SG is the abil­i­ty to record video with a max­i­mum res­o­lu­tion of 2304x1296 pix­els, in which it exceeds the capa­bil­i­ties of the Neo­line X‑COP 9000C mod­el.

Car video recorder Playme P600SG

SilverStone F1 Hybrid S‑BOT

The Sil­ver­Stone F1 Hybrid S‑BOT DVR is a styl­ish com­bo device and the choice of those who want to get the max­i­mum pos­si­ble pro­tec­tion from police speed con­trol devices.

On the “first line of defense” is a radar detec­tor that works in the K, Ka, X and La (laser) ranges and uses a con­stant­ly updat­ed base of radar sig­na­tures of the CIS coun­tries.

It includes the so-called Z‑signatures (for exam­ple, auto­mat­ic door sig­nals, var­i­ous indus­tri­al trans­mit­ters), to pro­tect against false alarms. Dig­i­tal sig­nal pro­cess­ing using DSP is pro­vid­ed. 5 pre­set sen­si­tiv­i­ty set­tings are avail­able — 3 city, SMART and high­way.

The GPS receiv­er is respon­si­ble for the “sec­ond line” of pro­tec­tion and the data­base with the coor­di­nates of radars and cam­eras is loaded. The radar detec­tor can­not always catch their sig­nal (mod­ern mod­els usu­al­ly make lit­tle noise), so such insur­ance will not be super­flu­ous.

The sin­gle-chan­nel Full­HD video recorder uses a high­ly sen­si­tive SONY IMX323 matrix and 6‑lens glass optics. Antic­i­pat­ed impact sen­sor set­ting. I would also like to note the con­ve­nient 3‑inch screen, which clear­ly shows all warn­ings.

Car DVR Sil­ver­Stone F1 Hybrid S‑BOT

We wish you calm and safe trips with­out vio­lat­ing traf­fic rules!

Author: Roman Mel­ny­chenko, Olek­san­dr Sher­styuk