GPS & Camera Installation in Lexington, South Carolina Call or text: 803-513-1009  ·  info@apisignalcorp.com
Serving Town of Lexington, Cayce & Lexington County fleets

Municipal Fleet GPS & Camera Installer in Lexington, SC

We install GPS trackers, dash and backup cameras and telematics on town, city and county fleets across Lexington, Saluda and Newberry counties, at your yard, station or motor pool. We work to your spec, including OBD-port-only installs like the one Cayce wrote into its fleet RFP.

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Lexington-Area Public Fleets

Which public fleets do we install for around Lexington?

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Lexington County government runs several fleets under one roof. The Sheriff's Department works out of three regional command offices: North Region off Lincreek Drive with a satellite office in Chapin, South Region on Airport Road in Pelion, and West Region on Augusta Highway in Gilbert. County Fire Service covers 758 square miles from 27 stations, with two more under construction, and more than 300 career firefighters on 24-hour shifts. County EMS staffs up to 20 ambulances plus paramedic quick response vehicles and handles more than 62,000 responses a year.

The county's road side is just as spread out. The Transportation Division fields district maintenance crews based around Lexington, Swansea, Batesburg, Chapin and Fairview, plus drainage, special project, pavement and sign shop crews. Solid Waste Management runs 11 collection and recycling centers and the Edmund Landfill and Transfer Station. That adds up to crew trucks, heavy road equipment and hauling units spread over a county of roughly 700 square miles of land.

The towns run their own. The City of Cayce put a 115-vehicle fleet out to bid in 2022, covering Police, Fire, Sanitation, Parks, Animal Control, Water Distribution and Wastewater, and that came months after Cayce split its Department of Public Safety into separate police and fire departments on January 1, 2022. The Town of Lexington and West Columbia run water and sewer crews, and the Joint Municipal Water and Sewer Commission keeps service trucks on 434 miles of water line, more than 2,800 hydrants and 39 sewer pump stations. Batesburg-Leesville runs its own water and sewer and sells water wholesale to Ridge Spring.

North and west of the lake, the fleets change shape. The City of Newberry runs its own Electric Division alongside water distribution, wastewater collection and two treatment plants. The Newberry County Sheriff's Office has 48 sworn deputies across 15 divisions, from Patrol and Civil Process to Special Operations. Saluda County has fewer than 20,000 residents on about 453 square miles of land, which means long rural runs for every deputy and county truck. Add COMET buses serving West Columbia, Cayce and Irmo, and there is a lot of public equipment moving in these three counties every day.

What We Install in Lexington

Built for patrol units, utility trucks and county road crews

We install every major platform, including Geotab, Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Lytx, Netradyne, Powerfleet and CalAmp, and we wire each unit for the job it actually does.

GPS Fleet Tracking

OBD-port installs for light-duty town and county vehicles, hardwired units on dump trucks and heavy road equipment where your spec allows it, and battery-powered trackers on boat trailers, generators and towed equipment that work the Lake Murray shoreline.

Dash & Backup Cameras

Road-facing and driver-facing cameras for patrol units, plus rear and side cameras on ambulances, water trucks and road crew vehicles that spend their day stopped on the shoulder of US 378, US 1, I-20 and I-26.

Telematics & Integrations

Engine hours, fault codes, idle and trip data set up so a town garage like the one in Cayce's bid can plan maintenance from it. We also consolidate mixed platforms when a department ends up with two systems on one fleet.

Lexington-Specific Considerations

What makes public fleet installs around Lexington different?

Can an install meet an "OBD port only, no battery hardwire" spec like Cayce's?

Yes, and it is a common spec in this area. Cayce's 2022 fleet RFP required devices that plug into the vehicle's engine diagnostics port and do not need to be hard wired to the battery, with wireless firmware updates and failed devices replaced within 30 days. Written that way, the spec protects the town's warranty and lets its own garage keep working on the vehicle.

The catch is that a device just pushed into the port gets kicked loose by a knee, unplugged by a technician running a scan, or left hanging where it reports bad data. We fit a Y-cable so the port stays free for your mechanics, tuck the device up behind the dash and tie it off. Heavy trucks with a 9-pin diagnostic port get the matching harness. Any unit on your list with no usable port gets flagged before the bid is signed, not after.

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How do you track trucks, trailers and boats that work around Lake Murray?

Every unit gets a tracker that fits how it moves. Lake Murray covers about 50,000 acres with roughly 650 miles of shoreline and touches Lexington, Saluda, Newberry and Richland counties, so a truck on the other side of the water can be a long drive away by road. Seeing exactly where each unit sits is what lets dispatch send the closest one.

The Sheriff's Department runs a Marine Patrol unit on the lake, and utilities draw from it too: the Town of Lexington, West Columbia and the Joint Municipal Water and Sewer Commission all have customers served from the Lake Murray Water Treatment Plant. We hardwire the tow vehicles, put battery-powered asset trackers on trailers and portable pumps, and set geofences on ramps and plant gates so you know when equipment arrives and leaves.

Can cameras help protect crews working the shoulder?

Yes. A rear-facing camera records the traffic passing a stopped ambulance, deputy or road crew, which gives you a clear record when something goes wrong. It matters here more than most places: South Carolina's move over law started in Lexington after paramedic James D. Garcia was struck in 1994, and the General Assembly passed it in 1996.

Traffic has not eased since. The US 378 and Corley Mill Road gateway from I-20 carries about 50,000 vehicles a day and saw 88 crashes between January 2022 and December 2024, and the Town's Sunset Split project is expected to start construction in 2027. We mount rear and side cameras high, aimed down the lane a passing driver actually uses, and wire them to record whenever the vehicle is running.

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How do you keep up when the county keeps adding vehicles?

We install on new units as they are delivered, so they go into service already reporting. Lexington County grew from 293,991 people at the 2020 census to an estimated 317,588 by 2025, and Fire Service already has two new stations under construction. Growth like that shows up as new patrol cars, ambulances and engines every budget year.

Each new unit gets the same harness, device placement, camera angles and naming as the rest of your fleet, so it reports the same way in your software from day one. When an older unit is retired, we pull the hardware and move it to the replacement so nothing you paid for sits in a drawer.

Lexington-Area Coverage

Where do we install around Lexington?

We work throughout Lexington County, Saluda County and Newberry County:

Town of Lexington
Cayce
West Columbia
Irmo
Chapin
Gilbert
Pelion
Swansea
Batesburg-Leesville
Gaston
Saluda
Newberry

We work across Lexington, Saluda and Newberry counties, and we come to your yard, station or motor pool.

Questions From Lexington Fleet Managers

What do Lexington public fleet managers ask us?

Which platforms do you install for Lexington-area fleets?

All the major ones. We install Geotab, Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, Lytx, Netradyne, Powerfleet, CalAmp and more, so the platform your council or county procurement picked is the one we fit.

Can our own mechanics pull a device when a vehicle goes to auction?

Yes. On OBD-port installs we leave the device on a Y-cable and label it, so your garage can unplug it in a minute. We can also handle the pull and move the hardware to the replacement unit ourselves.

Do you come to district yards and fire stations, or only a central shop?

We come to wherever the vehicles live. That can mean the county's district crews in Swansea or Chapin, a sheriff's region office in Pelion or Gilbert, or a fire station between calls.

What happens when a device fails in the field?

We swap it at your location. Bids like Cayce's set a 30-day replacement window for failed devices, and we schedule the swap at your yard well inside it so the vehicle keeps reporting.

Do you also cover Newberry and Saluda counties?

Yes. City, town and county fleets in Newberry and Saluda counties get the same on-site install we do across Lexington County, at your yard, station or shop.

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