How Vehicle Data Collection Can Provide Critical Evidence For Investigations with Ben LeMere, CEO at Berla
People have been asking me to do a vehicle forensics discussion with a specific focus on Berla data, so I invited special guest Ben LeMere, CEO at Berla Vehicle Forensics, to answer automotive digital intelligence questions on the show.
In this episode, Ben LeMere, CEO at Berla, a Vehicle Forensics company, will explore how their solution accesses and collects vehicle data. He will also share some of the cases they have supported.
There are between 75 to 100 different electronic control units in vehicles, which generate around 25 GBs of data per hour. This doesn’t mean that all the data is stored, but what the electronic control system chooses to save can be extremely helpful to digital investigations.
The familiar infotainment system in the center stack of the car dashboard is just one of the many different modules that generate user-type data that can help solve crimes.
Berla solutions generally look for anything that is related to calls that are made from phones that are connected to the vehicle as well as information about the phones that were connected. Valuable data such as call logs, contacts, text messages, and the like are retrievable.
Berla also can access car data location history, which can indicate anywhere the car has traveled. Vehicle events such as the driver’s door or window opening, brakes being activated, gears being shifted, and as well as other data points tracked by the vehicle’s control units can help us determine a chain of events.
One question we deal with right off the bat that always comes up is whether Berla supports just US vehicles or foreign vehicles as well?
Find out in the podcast and discover more about how Berla can help solve your investigations.
