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Apr 16 2011

New Landmark Stop Dashlet

Category: Ad Hoc Reports,Company Efficiency,dashboard dashlets,Landmarks,New Features,New Features,Reporting,Reports — rdonat @ 4:37 pm

This new Landmark Stop Dashlet helps you see how many visits your vehicles are making to landmarks and how long they stay along with averages.

This might help you to see your vehicles’ average visit times to loading zones/transfer stations/warehouses/customers/etc.

GPS Insight Landmark Stops Dashlet

You can modify which vehicle group, which landmark group, how many days you want to go back (1, 2, or 3), what you want to sort by, how many lines to display, and whether you want totals or averages to be displayed.

GPS Insight Landmark Stops Dashlet

This coming week will let you modify how frequently it auto-refreshes.

What is most convenient about this dashlet is you can click through to ANY landmark to run the corresponding landmark report instantly.

Click through to Sky Harbor Airport for a report

And instantly (.2451 seconds…) you get your listing of 3 vehicles which have passed through Sky Harbor Airport with detailed information — even what direction they were traveling (in the Distance column):

GPS Insight Landmark Report

As with many of our dashlets, this may not be necessary for many customers, but for some customers, it’s going to be a huge help in determining which landmarks are experiencing backups for the day and taking action.

If you like it, it’s under “Dispatch” and if you don’t, you can leave it in the Dashlet Dock.

Thanks,

Rob.

Tags: Fleet Tracking, GPS Tracking, landmark report, Landmark Stop Dashlet, Vehicle Tracking

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Apr 16 2011

New landmark report and MASSIVELY FASTER LANDMARKS!

Category: Landmarks,New Features,New Features,Reporting,Reports — rdonat @ 12:20 pm

We have MASSIVELY advanced our landmark report speed. Large customers will now be able to run month-long landmark reports with ALL VEHICLES and ALL LANDMARKS (although typically they’ll want to use a group of vehicles and a group of landmarks).

I will illustrate on GPS Insight’s “fleet” of 30 or so vehicles (with multiple devices in several vehicles).

We have over 2,000 landmarks defined.

This new report is called the “Landmark” report on the Reports tab of the interface:

Run the new GPS Insight Landmark Report

Then it starts to run and shows you in real time its progress:

Landmark Report Status as it computes

HUGE report spits out in 211 seconds the first time you run it:

Report Completes with Summary Information at top

Bear in mind we quantified 9270 landmark visits across 32 of our 87 defined devices during the month of March in 3 1/2 minutes.

Here is what the detail looks like for my vehicle (only showing the first few landmarks):

GPS Insight Landmark Report detail

This is a LOT of data, of course. You can choose whether or not to show the “passing through” points where the vehicle doesn’t actually stop or idle, and also can group by landmark rather than by vehicle (click on the blue landmark column heading).

Once you’ve run the report once for a set of landmark visits, subsequent runs take half as long typically. Re-Grouping takes less than 2 minutes for almost 10,000 lines of report data:

Landmark visits grouped by landmark vs. vehicle

This significant advancement opens up many other possible enhancements, such as the Landmark Stop dashlet which I will detail in my next blog article.

Most competitors let you run ONE vehicle for all landmarks or ONE landmark for all vehicles.

Not ALL for ALL (or group for group).

This is huge to people who don’t want to run the same report 100 times if they have 100 vehicles (or landmarks).

We think Landmarks are very important so we constantly improve GPS Insight’s ability to use them effectively and throughout the product.

And best of all, it’s a free upgrade (as always)!

It’s still in “Beta” so bear with us while we clean a few things up here & there, but it will be completely ready within a week or so – I just couldn’t wait to talk about this significant upgrade.

Thanks,
Rob.

Tags: Fleet Tracking, fleet tracking system, GPS Tracking, landmark report, New Features, signficant upgrade to landmarks, Vehicle Tracking

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Nov 29 2009

Counting & Reconciling Tolls using GPS Insight fleet tracking

Category: Ad Hoc Reports,California,CUSTOM APPLICATIONS OF GPS INSIGHT,Driver Accountability,Google Earth,GPS Tracking,Landmarks,New Features,Reporting,Reports — rdonat @ 2:47 pm

We have a customer in San Francisco who wanted to be able to reconcile the # of trips they make across the Bay Bridge (since they pay a toll when coming into the city).

Here is a picture of the landmark they defined (along with a nice 3D representation in Google Earth):

GPS Insight Landmark of the San Francisco Bay Bridge

We added a “Passing Through” option to our standard landmark report to help with this requirement. Before this, the landmark visit would have required the vehicle to either stop or idle for a minute to register. If you click the “Passing Through” checkbox, it will count any activity through that “zone.”

GPS Insight landmark report adds "passing through" option

Now when running the report (which took less than 3 seconds), you get each time a vehicle went through that area (I’ve blurred out the vehicle names for customer privacy).

GPS Insight vehicle tracking landmark report

This makes it easy to see that 7 vehicles went a total of 23 times across the Bay Bridge.

But how many tolls is that?

You only get charged on the way INTO the city. Exporting that report to Excel gives us some additional information such as heading (what direction the trip took through the landmark). So only Southwest trips should incur a toll. That shows 8 of them according to this Excel Screenshot:

How many tolls should we be charged across the Bay Bridge?

We added Heading as well to the exported version of the report. Since space isn’t at a premium in Excel, we usually put all columns into the exported versions of the reports there.

This helps our customer, & I thought it would be worth detailing here in case other customers can think of a good use for this.

Thanks,
Rob.

Tags: bay bridge, GPS Tracking, landmark report, san francisco, toll collection

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