We presented driver safety at the MIROS symposium
Our lead developer Ram and business analyst Syazze took the stage at the MIROS Driver Safety Rating Symposium — and the same work helped our client Igeotech earn a MIROS TrackScore 5-star rating. Here is what we argued, and how we got there.
Written by Muhammad Syazze · Business Analyst — Published 15 October 2026, 10:00 AM MYT · 4 min read
On 15 October 2026, MIROS and APAD brought the fleet-safety industry together at Mercure Hotel Putrajaya. Sunrise Tech Ventures — the software and R&D wing behind Igeotech's platform — was asked to present. Our lead developer, Muthuram (Ram), gave the talk, with our business analyst Muhammad Syazze on the research and the numbers behind it.
We build the fleet platform. But the thing we went there to say is simpler than any feature: the driver is the biggest factor in a crash, so the driver's health, rest and well-being is the biggest safety lever we have. Everything we showed starts from that.
Why we were in the room
The Malaysian road numbers are not abstract. They are the reason the work exists.
6,537 road deaths in 2025
About 18 every day. Motorcyclists were about 66% of them, though riders were only about 14% of the vehicles in crashes.
One death every 36 hours from lorry crashes
A MIROS study found 1,457 deaths in lorry and trailer crashes over six years — the heavy-vehicle toll that fleet safety has to answer for.
Heavy vehicles: ~9% of traffic, ~42.9% of expressway deaths
On the North–South Expressway, heavy vehicles are a small share of traffic but a large share of the fatalities (MIROS MRR 561).
The driver sits at the centre of the research
Fatigue, sleep apnea, distraction, blind spots, attitude to safety — MIROS's own studies keep returning to the person behind the wheel.
So we did not present a tracking product. We presented a way to manage the driver fairly — and the audit record to prove it works.
A fair safety score for every driver
The heart of the talk: one transparent score, weighted and the same for everyone, that a regulator could standardise and a driver could trust.
Speeding — 30%
How far over the limit, how long, how often. Read straight from the GPS tracker.
Harsh driving — 25%
Harsh braking, acceleration and cornering, measured per 1,000 km so a long-haul truck and a city van are compared fairly.
Compliance & fatigue — 15% each
Seatbelt and phone use verified by the AI camera (DMS); continuous driving and fatigue alerts from the fatigue report.
Verified incidents — 15%
Only confirmed high-risk events backed by ADAS and dashcam video. Idling is tracked as efficiency, never as a safety penalty.
From the symposium floor
Photographs from the MIROS Driver Safety Rating Symposium, Mercure Hotel Putrajaya, 15 October 2026.
What the score does next
A score only works if everyone knows what happens after it. We tied the star rating to a clear, human-first SOP.
4–5 stars — keep driving
Score 80 and above. The driver is doing well; say so. Good discipline should be recognised, not just policed.
3 stars — counselling
Score 70–79. Sit down with the driver, find the cause, and coach. This is the human touch, built into the process.
2 stars — health check & suspension
Score 60–69. Many low scores come from fatigue or health, so the person is checked first, then stood down.
Every alert becomes a case
Level 1 remind and counsel, Level 2 suspend, Level 3 stop immediately and immobilise at a safe stop. An owner, an action and a record for each one.
How the 5-star audit was earned
Alongside the talk, Ram and Syazze ran the client through the MIROS TrackScore assessment — the national commercial-vehicle scorecard — and closed every gap until the platform scored full marks.
Mapped the platform to the scorecard
Syazze took the TrackScore criteria apart and matched each requirement to a real feature, surfacing exactly where evidence was needed.
Engineered the gaps closed
Ram's team built and hardened what the audit demanded — data integrity, safety events, reporting — against the standard, not against a demo.
Evidenced every claim
No feature was asserted without a working screen behind it. The assessment is a 5-page record, not a star on a slide.
Result: MIROS TrackScore 5 stars
Igeotech's IGEO125 / IGEO GPS Advanced platform was rated 5 stars, valid Feb 2026 to Jan 2028 — the proof that the safety model holds up under audit.
What we asked the regulator for
We closed with asks, not just slides: open government APIs so fleets can verify the driver and not only the truck (JPN e-KYC, JPJ licence, live summons checks, KDN record checks), and R&D grants so local companies build for Malaysian roads — made for our drivers, our heat and humidity, our coverage gaps, with data kept in Malaysia under PDPA. Local solutions for local problems. Safer roads, and drivers who feel valued.
Built with
Native iOS and Android, a Node.js and Feathers backend, MySQL for the record and Redis for live state — the same stack behind our fleet and ERP platforms.
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