eSIM Powers AI Safety on the Truck Racing Circuit

Telit Cinterion's NExT eSIM keeps FleetSafe.ai's AI safety cameras online at British Truck Racing.

1 Jul 2026

Racetracks are usually where speed gets tested. This season, they're also testing something else: whether AI safety systems built for delivery trucks can survive real punishment.

Telit Cinterion's NExT eSIM technology now powers FleetSafe.ai's video telematics platform across the 2026 British Truck Racing Championship. This system streams live video, tracks driver fatigue, and analyzes incidents in real time. None of that works without a connection that refuses to drop, and that's the part getting stress-tested on the track.

Multiple network profiles run at once in the eSIM setup, switching automatically to keep data flowing. Vibration, patchy coverage, constant bandwidth demands: a race truck throws all of it at the system simultaneously. Fleet operators running vehicles across scattered routes face the exact same problems, just spread out over months instead of minutes.

"Video telematics is central to improving safety and performance across modern fleets, but it requires reliable, high-throughput connectivity to deliver value," said Dean Leonard, president of technical operations at FleetSafe.ai. He added that connectivity failure isn't an option. It's a blunt line, but it explains the whole premise behind choosing a racetrack over a quiet pilot program.

There's a logic to it. If the AI can analyze footage and flag fatigue while a truck is being hammered around a circuit, it can likely handle a normal highway shift. Motorsport just compresses years of wear into a few laps.

Fatigue alerts and incident data can cut collision rates and insurance costs for haulage companies of any size, and that payoff, if it holds up, reaches well past racing. Getting reliable connectivity to fleets scattered across wide regions has been one of the harder problems in commercial telematics.

Nothing here proves the technology works everywhere yet. But a truck race in 2026 is an unusually public place to find out.