Defendant
2 cases as defendant.
SmartDrive Systems, Inc. (commonly "SmartDrive") is a US fleet-safety technology company founded in 2004 in San Diego, California, where it was headquartered at 1500 Solana Boulevard. It was venture-backed by investors including Oak Investment Partners, New Enterprise Associates, WABCO, and Michelin, raising roughly $285M in total. In September 2020 it was acquired by Dallas-based Omnitracs (Vista Equity Partners) in a deal reported at about $450M; Omnitracs, including SmartDrive, was in turn acquired by Solera Holdings in 2021. SmartDrive now operates as a Solera fleet-solutions brand rather than an independent public company. Publicly reported headcount was over 725 worldwide in 2019, and its CEO cited roughly $100M revenue in 2020; more recent figures are not independently verified.
Operations. SmartDrive sells video-based safety telematics for commercial truck, bus, and transit fleets. Its offering combines in-cab driver-facing and road-facing cameras with AI/ML event detection, a human-managed video review service, driver risk scoring and coaching, telematics, and regulatory compliance/workflow tools. Solera integrated SmartDrive into its unified Solera Fleet Platform and launched a next-generation "SR5" AI camera in 2025.
Litigation posture. SmartDrive appears in the database only as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 2 defendant cases) — the profile of an operating company being attacked, not an asserting entity. Both tracked matters are the same suit, Peregrine Data LLC v. SmartDrive Systems, Inc., filed 2025-05-15 in the N.D. Tex. before Judge Mark Pittman (No. 4:25-cv-00516; RPX lists it closed 2025-05-19). The court is not a notorious plaintiff haven like the Eastern District of Texas, though N.D. Tex. is a common patent venue.
Context. The plaintiff, Peregrine Data LLC, is characterized by Unified Patents as an NPE and entity of Eric Zautner asserting U.S. Patent 8,319,619, directed at vehicular-incident proceedings and automobile security. Unified ran a PATROLL prior-art contest on that patent (prior art found March 2025). The same patent and NPE have been asserted against Solera Holdings, Lytx, Garmin, and Netradyne, indicating a campaign against the vehicle video-safety sector.
Patent infringement suit filed by Peregrine Data LLC against SmartDrive Systems, Inc. in N.D. Tex. The case was closed on 2025-05-19.
Peregrine Data LLC sued SmartDrive Systems, Inc. in the Northern District of Texas. The case was closed on 2025-05-19. The narrative does not verify which patent(s), if any, were asserted.