For a LONG time, in GPS Insight, speeding meant > 67 MPH, idling meant speed=0, and red meant stopped for > 60 minutes.
A customer recently asked for us to change this to 72 MPH, idling for > 5 minutes, and stopped for > 120 minutes.
We made an exception for them and it now shows up as such on the map, as well as on the legend:
Custom Legend within GPS Insight
You’ll note that the vehicle below has been stopped for 1 hour, 50 minutes, and is yellow still (by default it would be red at the 60 minute mark) based on this change.
Custom color threshold for stopped vehicles
We also have lots of other semi-custom requests from customers, such as when they want a different list of speed thresholds to drop down as choices in a report, etc.
And we make those changes here & there as customers request them.
However, we thought we would put this capability into our customers hands, on an account-by-account basis where applicable, and down to the user-by-user basis as an account-level override.
Here is where you’ll find the interface we’re developing to make it easy for our customers to make these changes themselves (should be another week or so until it’s available to all customers):
GPS Insight custom preferences button
And here’s what that interface will look like, for starters:
GPS Insight custom preferences interface
There are many more highly custom attributes you can expect to see within GPS Insight such as:
- How granular the time options are in report pull-downs (e.g. 1, 5, 10 minute intervals)
- The language for the interface (currently just English and Spanish)
- Default values for time choices in reports and historical maps, etc.
- Color schemes with customer logos/colors (this will take a while but in the meantime you can always ask if we can accommodate your request)
- You name it — anything customers ask us to change regularly will be an option here
We’re always listening to customer needs, and here is a great example of us modifying the product to meet those expectations.
Thanks,
Rob.
March 15th, 2012 12:22 pm
Since 67 (or 72) mph may be speeding for highway speeds, when do you envision the speeding functionality will be vary to the posted street speed limit?
March 22nd, 2012 9:11 pm
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