When designing the new AVET recorders our engineers faced numerous challenges. How could we create secure, protected, portable, hard wearing and cost-effective solutions that could be configured to meet with UK as well as international judicial best practice well into the future? The answer was to start from scratch designing our own enclosures, printed circuit boards and software specifically to meet new requirements with easy upgrade paths. In addition, software enhancements we introduce will be compatible with AVET's new portfolio of products so that, although meeting customer requirements today, the units are easily configurable, even when deployed, for modifications to be installed.