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Anytime a new camera goes up in a community, people ask good questions. Who is watching? What is being recorded? Where does it go?
Here are the straight answers. The Frost unit points at the road, not at people. It exists to help organizations see, forecast, and document winter road conditions, so they can pretreat, respond faster, and keep the public safe in hazardous winter weather.
The Frost Mini-Weather Station is a rugged, solar-powered mini-RWIS (Road Weather Information System). It captures conditions at the exact site like road surface temperature, humidity, dew point, frost potential, visibility, and a site photo to alert you the moment conditions change, and delivers a hyperlocal 72-hour forecast.
Real-time visibility. Decisions get made on conditions at your site, not a regional forecast written 40 miles away. One New England public works director had crews treating for black ice before commuting traffic arrived.
Smarter dispatching. Crews deploy when they're needed and hold when they aren't, cutting overtime, fuel, and equipment wear.
Lower material costs. Warmer pavement means less salt. A Midwest contractor estimated $15,000 saved in a single month on salt and wages. Less over-salting also means less damage to interior flooring, driveways, vehicles, and landscaping.
Proof of work. Time-stamped images show when and why work was done, whether you're holding a contractor accountable, deciding on a school closure, or answering a customer months later.
Flock cameras read the license plates of passing cars and then collect and store the data for future investigations.
A Frost unit is a weather instrument that happens to include a camera, and that camera points at the ground. Its job is to show pavement, snow cover, standing water, and whether the plow came. Frost is not used for license plate recognition, facial recognition, or tracking of any kind.
Frost is not real-time only. Observations, images, and forecasts are recorded and stored, because customers rely on that history for slip-and-fall cases, crew training, operational improvements, and proving a servicing event happened.
Frost Solutions and the customer own the images, and Frost Solutions is the custodian. Access is limited to authorized Frost Solutions employees and the individuals a customer designates.
Frost units make winter operations cheaper, faster, and safer, and leave you with a defensible record of the work. Frost does this without identifying a single driver.
Want to see the platform and how the data is handled? Get in touch.
