We just finished up at the TruckIT conference in Dallas yesterday. I had a high value package to send and wanted to know when it had been picked up by UPS.
So I put an EZ-1000 in the box (it was a nice new LED TV).
Here is how I quickly was able to create an alert to page me the minute that box left the hotel:
First I pull up 2D Mapping which has a convenient link to create a landmark from a vehicle (TV’s) current location:
Alerting me when UPS picks up a package using GPS tracking
Here I click the “Landmark: Create from point” link:
Click a link to create a landmark
Here I expand the radius to 1500 feet and save the landmark as Renaissance Richardson (the hotel we were at):
Create a landmark in GPS Insight
Now I can open up the Alert Manager and create a geofence alert for when that box leaves the area:
Create a GPS Tracking alert in GPS Insight
Choose the “New Landmark Alert” link:
Create a Landmark Alert in GPS Insight
Choose the EZ-1000 (named Demo), then name the alert “UPS Picked up TV” and enter my cell phone, and last choose the new “Renaissance Richardson” Landmark and change the “trigger” to “Outside”:
Vehicle Tracking alert (Geofence/Landmark)
I waited a couple minutes then hovered over the alert information icon to see that it had been checked 4 times (once per minute is standard):
GPS Tracking Alert
At 12:36 I received a text message on my iPhone telling me the package left that landmark:
Receiving a landmark alert in GPS Insight
Reading the alert, we see that the Demo device (in the LED TV box) left Renaissance Richardson at 12:35. The alert name is “Ups Picked Up Tv”
GPS Insight Landmark Alert
It’s been a couple hours since I got that alert, so now I can look to see where that UPS driver has gone since he picked up the TV (or if it was stolen, where they took it…):
GPS Insight history using GPS tracking device in a TV box
GPS Insight history using GPS tracking device in a TV box
I should put an alert out there now to let me know when it gets to our office in Scottsdale so someone doesn’t take it home before I lock it away for the next trade show…
Rob.