A customer needed an alert to let them know whenever a vehicle took to long getting from A to B.
We put the new “Late Arrival Alert” into the product as a result:
New "Late Arrival" Alert
Here’s what it does:
You can enter an origination and destination landmark or group of landmarks. Maybe it’s all your customers & all your vendors. Or just your headquarters & the first stops on each of your drivers’ routes. Or in my case, my home, & the office.
Then you enter how many minutes MAXIMUM it should take to get from the originating point to the destination point.
Here is one I created on myself, for my 7 minute (typical) commute from home to the office:
From Home to Work should take 7 minutes
Now, whenever it takes me more than 7 minutes to get from home to work, I get an alert about it. You can optionally send the driver an alert to their cell phone/email (blackberry, etc.) as well.
I purposely took a long way to work today to trip the alert & here is the email I received:
New GPS Insight "Late Arrival Alert" via Email
New "Late Arrival Alert" via SMS
Since I have 2 devices on my vehicle, and the “Robgroup” includes them both, it “consolidated” both alerts into a single email for me.
This will be good for companies which want to know their drivers aren’t taking their time between vendors and customers, and even highly custom applications such as golf management. If a player’s cart which is being tracked takes more than 30 minutes to get from the 1st tee to the 4th green (or fairway, etc.), you can alert the ranger to go work on speeding up the pace of play. There are hundreds of applications for this alert, particularly if you group all your landmarks intelligently & generically apply this logic to them.
Call us to see how we can help you and your business to detect and fix inefficient driving patterns using this alert and others we offer.
Thanks,
Rob.