Jun 27 2011

2 new alerts (DTC’s and Maintenance due)

Category: Alerts,Ease of use,maintenance,New Features,New Featuresrdonat @ 3:47 pm

We have added 2 new alerts, bringing the total we provide to 12!

2 new GPS Insight Alerts

2 new GPS Insight Alerts

The DTC alert will send you an email (or SMS text) when your vehicle experiences a diagnostic alert (diagnostics devices only).

The Maintenance alert will send emails (or SMS text) whenever you are X miles/hours/days within a mileage/hours/calendar-based maintenance alert for a vehicle’s scheduled maintenance (within GPS Insight’s maintenance module).

You set it like this, and can override the number of miles/hours/days:

GPS Insight Maintenance Alert

GPS Insight Maintenance Alert

When you receive the alert, it looks like this:

GPS Insight Maintenance Alert email

GPS Insight Maintenance Alert email

As with all our alerts, you can specify “push” as the recipient address (or one of them) and we will “push” that data to your system for you to work with it programmatically.  This requires your developers to expose a web service and provide us the details, and then all your alerts can be automatically populated in your systems (ERP, dispatch, maintenance, etc.).

If you’re not using our alerts, you’re missing  a key benefit of GPS Insight.  They’re available to all customers.

Enjoy!

Thanks,

Rob.

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Jan 03 2011

New Alert tells you that your drivers forgot to log in (or that your vehicle is being stolen…)

We have had a few customers who use our Driver ID Fobs and want to be alerted when the vehicle is moving but the driver forgot to use their Driver ID Fob to “sign in” to the vehicle.  Either it causes them frustration when trips go unassigned to a driver, or worse yet, the vehicle may be getting stolen.

Some of our customers choose to install optional buzzers or LED’s which remind the driver until they place their keyfob on the reader to tell GPS Insight who is driving the vehicle.

But this alert may help anyone who uses GPS Insight’s DriverID Functionality.

Here’s how you set an alert:

Launch the Alerts Manager:

Creating a Driver ID alert

Creating a Driver ID alert

Create a new “Driver Login Alert”

Creating a Driver ID alert

Creating a Driver ID alert

Then change the vehicle group/vehicle, the number of minutes until the alert goes off  and emails/SMS text messages the recipient, and optionally that of the vehicle in question to remind the driver him or herself:

Modifying a Driver Alert

Modifying a Driver Alert

In this case, it will continue to alert me via email every 10 minutes until the driver either logs in or the vehicle finally stops.

Tomorrow I will “forget” to log into my vehicle, and will get this alert sent twice in 6 minutes (and every 10 minutes thereafter if I don’t log in using my key fob).  I’ll post that alert once I get it.

This is our 9th alert, and as usual, comes from direct customer requests.

We have a list of more which we will be bringing in 2011.

Happy New Year!

Rob

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