May 17 2013

New Icons for accessing Clusters, Traffic, and Centering options within Maps

Category: Mapping,New Features,New Featuresrdonat @ 1:49 pm

We cleaned up the area within our mapping that gives you the option to display clusters, traffic, or center the map. The updated section now has icons that can be clicked to either toggle the particular function on or off.

New Icons in GPS Insight Mapping

New Icon for turning Clusters on/off

When turning on either Clustering or Traffic, the icon is no longer “greyed out”:

New Icon for turning Traffic on/off

New Icon for Centering the Map

Before, text labels took up a lot more room within the map, especially within dashlet maps. We hope this update makes viewing your vehicles and assets on a map a lot easier.

Thanks,

Rob

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Apr 16 2011

Preview of our new Interface!

Category: dashboard dashlets,New Features,New Featuresrdonat @ 3:44 pm

After loading our “horizontal” interface with 79 distinctly different options (not all are available under every user name), we are FINALLY going to make the interface a little easier to use and more convenient for all.

We should have a beta version available in May.  We’ll make sure everyone knows how to get access to use it.

Here is a preview:

Preview of GPS Insight's new Dashboard Interface

Preview of GPS Insight's new Dashboard Interface

Major improvements will include “tabs” at the top which will default to “best practices” dashboards.  As always, every dashboard can be configured by the end user, but our new “default” dashboards will be more usable out of the box.  Additionally, customers will be able to configure their tabs to their requirements and add as many custom tabs as they want.

Map/Report/Administration menus will flow “downward” rather than horizontally as has been the case with GPS Insight for 6 years now.

Rather than “pull the plug” on existing customers when it’s time to move to this new interface, we will make BOTH available indefinitely.  This will ensure you will be able to transition at your own pace.  We expect most customers should really appreciate the new interface and at once point we will make it “the default” to try to get wide-spread adoption.

As with other “deprecated” features within GPS Insight, the old dashboard may not support new features when they are released so we encourage everyone to utilize it when it’s released in May.

We look forward to this release, and encourage you to give us any feedback you have to ensure we consider it while completing this major improvement in GPS Insight.

Here is one more screen shot:

Preview of GPS Insight's new Dashboard Interface

Preview of GPS Insight's new Dashboard Interface

Enjoy!

Thanks,

Rob.

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Nov 11 2010

GPS Insight adds support for Metric (KM, KM/h, etc.)

We have a number of companies which have asked for GPS Insight to support Metric vs. English (e.g. Kilometers vs. Miles, Liters vs. Gallons, etc.).

So we now officially support Metric throughout the site for non-US customers, and for those in the US which prefer Metric (who would want a measurement system which was in even 10′s, 100′s, 1000′s?  That’s crazy!)

Every place in our solution where Imperial measurements exist, they now support Metric — here is the dashboard interface with a couple examples:

GPS Insight support the Metric system

GPS Insight support the Metric system

Every one of our reports also supports Metric, typically Kilometers vs. Miles & KPM vs. MPH:

Here I run a Fleet Usage Summary report:

Running a GPS Insight fleet usage report

Running a GPS Insight fleet usage report

And the results are now in Kilometers:

GPS Insight reports using Kilometers now (optionally)

GPS Insight reports using Kilometers now (optionally)

Every one of our 35 or so reports now support Metric, so if you need it, it’s there for you.  Here is one more report, the GPS Insight Speed Summary Report:

GPS Insight reports using Kilometers now (optionally)

GPS Insight reports using Kilometers now (optionally)

Now that we got this into the product, the first thing we heard was “can you support international date format too…?”  (DD/MM/YYYY) Why doesn’t everyone just adopt the US standards???…  We’ll get going on that shortly next.  (by the way, we DO have a Spanish version of the site available also, although the translation may not be perfect…)

Rob.

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Oct 25 2010

New SMS and Email Messaging capabilities added to GPS Tracking System

We just added a few new features to our SMS text messaging dashlet in our GPS tracking system.

First, now it auto-refreshes so you don’t need to press “refresh” to get new messages which have come in.

More importantly, to get your eye, new messages show up in RED:

New Messages show in Red

New Messages show in Red

Once you click them, they are turned back to white:

New Messages turn white when clicked

New Messages turn white when clicked

Last, you can now send EMAIL to your drivers as well from the SMS text messaging dashlet (now called the SMS/Email Messaging dashlet):

Send an email to your drivers from GPS Insight

Send an email to your drivers from GPS Insight

Received Email from GPS Insight Dashboard

Received Email from GPS Insight Dashboard

In order to edit your drivers’ SMS & Email addresses, choose the following option:

Edit your drivers' SMS & Email Addresses

Edit your drivers' SMS & Email Addresses

Now we allow up to 50 SMS text messages for free per vehicle per month with our GPS tracking system, so please make sure to use this useful and valuable service, and let your salesperson know if you will require more than that if you’re not already subscribing to it.

Thanks,

Rob.

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Oct 11 2010

More New Graphs (and many to come)

Category: dashboard dashlets,Dashboard Maps,Graphs,New Featuresrdonat @ 2:37 pm

Recently (a week ago), we promised a lot of graphs coming, & here are 3 more:

New Speeding Graph and vehicle-centric graphs

New Speeding Graph and vehicle-centric graphs

The top graph is a histogram of speeding events relative to the speed limit with different colors representing the severity of the speeding.

The bottom graphs show 3 different per-vehicle metrics:

  • MPG
  • Miles Driven
  • Idle Hours

Each different graph dashlet is configurable as to how many lines to show, which graph to show, how many days to show, etc:

Modify each graph dashlet

Modify each graph dashlet

Each “per-vehicle” graph is also configurable as to which graphs & how long to show, and the vehicle shown is the one most recently clicked upon in the “vehicle picker.”

Here is a screenshot of just how much you can easily depict within your dashboard, and save/call up whenever you want an overview of your groups of vehicles:

Lots of graphs and maps available within GPS Insight's new graphs dashlets

Lots of graphs and maps available within GPS Insight's new graphs dashlets

And the new “dashlet group” functionality makes it very quick to set up dashboards like this instantly.

Enjoy!

Rob.

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Sep 24 2010

New SMS message sending capabilities from the Dashboard

We just added the ability to select a vehicle group and send an SMS message to all those drivers from the dashboard.

Simple stuff, here are a couple screen shots:

Send a message to all/some of a group (only those with cell #’s assigned show up):

Here is where you send the message

Here is where you send the message

And look at outbound/inbound messages

here's where you see the past messages in & out

here's where you see the past messages in & out

And here’s what I sent earlier/just now on my iPhone:

here is what it looks like on your phone (my iPhone)

here is what it looks like on your phone (my iPhone)

Easy stuff — send messages to your drivers, and when they reply, you get it.

You don’t need to do anything except enter their cell # once, either by driver or by vehicle.

And they can send SMS to you at 477-477 (GPS-GPS).

Rob.

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