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Jun 24 2012

Powerful new capabilities for Custom Categories and Attributes

Category: CUSTOM APPLICATIONS OF GPS INSIGHT,Custom Categories and Attributes,Fleet Tracking,Fleet Tracking System,GPS Fleet Tracking,GPS Tracking,Mapping,New Features,New Features — rdonat @ 12:57 pm

We recently added new custom categories and attributes to GPS Insight for any customer to add highly business specific data to their vehicles, drivers, users, landmarks, and hierarchy nodes.

There are some new ways to utilize this feature, as well as custom filtering coming soon to the 2D map screen. These filters will eventually support report, alerts, API’s, etc.

For instance, you will be able to click the new “attributes and categories” button on 2D mapping (shown below) and add HIGHLY CUSTOM filters for which vehicles are shown:

New Attributes and Categories in GPS Insight 2D Mapping

In this example, I am filtering on only vehicles which EITHER are Route Number less than or equal to #15 (e.g. 1-15) OR BOTH a Corporate Vehicle with BOTH a Compressor AND Winch:

Highly Custom Filter in GPS Insight

Once I save that filter, only some of the vehicles remain, and when I choose one (Andrew PNP) I can tab to the “Custom” tab in 2D mapping and see how that vehicle matches our filter:

Since it was EITHER [any] (not both), the fact that the route #8 is less than/equal to 15 which causes this vehicle to be chosen, not the Specialized Equipment, since it doesn’t have a Winch in addition to the Compressor and Corporate ownership.

Filter Vehicles in GPS Insight Mapping

Note that there is a convenient “Edit: Attributes” link which takes me to the proper screen where I can add that winch, or something appropriate:

Edit Categories and Attributes in GPS Insight

You just need to click the “green check” between “Specialized Equipment” and the vehicle icon at top to bring up the options available. Then edit the vehicle to include a Winch and next time you check, that data has changed:

New Category assigned to Andrew PNP

I also went and changed the “Any” to “All” so now ALL 3 restrictions must be met. Now very few (5) vehicles are shown, as the filter is much more restrictive:

GPS Insight map filter

Some of these capabilities exist already, and some will be released shortly. Filters will eventually be something you can save, and use with reports and alerts. We’ll keep you posted on when these capabilities make it to GPS Insight.

Thanks,

Rob.

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Jun 02 2012

New Hierarchy Editor available within GPS Insight

Category: Ease of use,Extreme Return on Investment,GPS Fleet Tracking,GPS Tracking,Hierarchy,New Features,New Features — rdonat @ 6:00 pm

Our first Hierarchy Editor served us fine for large customers using our Hierarchy capabilities. However, as customers got bigger, they had more requirements, and we just launched a brand new version of this editor today.

If you don’t already have the Hierarchy capability turned on within GPS Insight call support or your salesperson (if you are a large customer, it’s worthwhile, but it’s overkill if you don’t have a few hundred vehicles).

Here is how you launch it within the GPS Insight portal:

Launching GPS Insight's Hierarchy Editor

Then you will be taken to the new editor:

New GPS Insight Hierarchy Editor

Some of the nice new and previously available capabilities include:

You are able to see ALL object types assigned to a node at once and expand them:

See all objects associated with a Hierarchy Node at once

You can Minimize them easily with one click of the “minus’ at the top of any group:

Collapse a tree easily

And you can easily drag and drop any unassigned objects after filtering them (in this case, we entered “ba” to restrict to those vehicles containing “ba” and then selected two, and assigned them to the “BAK” branch which had been selected on the far left):

Drag and drop to assign vehicles, landmarks, etc.

Additionally, the custom hierarchy group editor has this new look and feel:

Hierarchy Custom Group Editor

One of the nicest capabilities is the ability to scroll should you expand the hierarchy tree taller than your window — that was always a restriction in the last version.

Please let us know if you are interested in using the hierarchy and we will work with you to ensure it is made available appropriately.

Thanks,

Rob.

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Feb 05 2011

New comparison graph capabilities

Category: Ease of use,Graphs,New Features,New Features — rdonat @ 3:45 pm

We have been adding several useful graphs and this is the newest one you can put on your dashboard.

It shows the difference between 2 groups of vehicles in terms of mileage, idle hours, and speeding activity.

New GPS Insight Comparison Graph

Here’s how you can change it to be scaled on a per-vehicle basis rather than a group total basis:

Show graphs based on per-vehicle data, not the group total

And if you un-check certain vehicles, it changes the graph’s numbers accordingly:

Uncheck certain vehicles to exclude them from the graph

And last, you can change the groups in question just by changing them in the pull-down menu in the vehicle selector or in the “Reference Group” area:

Change the groups in each graph easily by selecting from a list

We’ll be adding more graph types soon as well, and an option to show any number of vehicle groups side-by-side also.

Rob.

Tags: comparison graph, fleet management software, fleet tracking devices, gps fleet tracking, GPS Tracking, gps vehicle tracking, graphs, vehicle tracking software

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Feb 01 2011

New Garmin “tally” function — let us count your drivers’ activities for you using Garmin (or SMS)!

Category: Ad Hoc Reports,Ease of use,Garmin Integration,Garmin Messaging,Graphs,New Features,New Garmin Features,Reporting,Reports — rdonat @ 9:51 pm

We have had a few customers ask for the ability to report on their drivers’ activities throughout the day.

One needed to count the number of passengers picked up.

One needed to count the number of mobile blood draws and mobile x-rays performed.

So we advised them to enter these numbers into the Garmin in their vehicle.

By doing so, with a space between the various numbers, we now allow them to report on the number of “activities” throughout the day/week/month.

They simply enter the # on their Garmin, and it shows up like this in a report

Reporting how many "things" a driver does throughout the month

This report shows the number of “draws” and “Xrays” performed, as input by the driver into the Garmin.

If you wanted to show it by day (then export into Excel, for instance) you would check the “Daily” box shown in this report below:

Reporting how many "things" a driver does daily for a week

This then breaks it out by day (and you can run up to 31 days currently):

Reporting how many "things" a driver does daily for a week

If you want to see exactly when the driver performed this, you can simply run a stop-notes report as shown below:

Running a Stop-Notes Report

This shows each stop’s detail, along with the entry by the driver stating how many of a “thing” he or she did:

Stop Notes detail on how many actions performed by a driver (via Garmin Entry)

Generically, we simply call these “Tally 1″, “Tally 2″, and “Tally 3″ — but if you want to let us know what your numbers mean (and in which order), then we will label them for your account so they show up more meaningfully in reports for you.

Then you can run your own simple analysis on this data within Excel, create graphs, etc: