Live Monitoring

This is the live tracking page. Here you will be able to see where all your GPS devices are located NOW.You can also find the closest vehicle or a route to different types of destinations. Each GPS tracking device is configured to report its position every a certain amount of time. This interval could be hours or could minutes. Every time a GPS device’s current position is received on the at.Compass server it will automatically be shown on the Live Monitoring page. The vehicle, person or asset position will be updated on the map and it will also be updated on the vehicle’s text information on the left side of the screen. The first parameter you can modify on this page is the “Refresh every” parameter. As explained on the Preferences session, this parameter lets you adjust how often you want the Live Monitoring page to refresh (connect to the at.Compass server) in order to show updates on vehicles positions. This parameter should not be mistaken by the time interval each GPS devices reports its current position. To the right of “Refresh every” you will find 2 selections: “disable auto refreshing” and “refresh now”. These options let you stop the automatic refresh and let you refresh any time you want by clicking on “refresh now”. If you want to enable auto refresh again then just click on “enable auto refreshing”. At.Compass v3 has added in Live Monitoring windows a new column for each vehicle in Live Monitoring windows. The column is been added to warn about the alert activation which has been defined for each vehicle by the user. Normally this icon is gray and changes its color when the alert has been triggered. Once a user click on it, at.Compass opens the Inbox and shows a message about what alert has been activated and which user has read or attended this alert.
On the right you can see a picture with the options and (in gray color) for every vehicle. The first option includes all alarmas that has been preconfigured for this vehicule, the second icon is associated to the commands activated for the vehicule. These commands have been added in version 3: Engine Off, Light-Horn On/Off and Current Vehicle Location. When the user moves the mouse over the icons, it pops up the name of the functionality associated to each one. To activate Engine Off and Light-Horn On/Off functionalities the user has to use an electronic circuit installed together with the tracer unit. To use Current Vehicle Location GPS devices must be programmed accordingly and a fixed IP SIM card must be used, then user will be able to click on the button in Live Monitoring and request the vehicle position at that exact time.

The user can now filter what vehicle o groups of vehicles will be shown  in the map using Show Vehicle Filter.

To restore all vehicle view, the user must select  No Filter option on the list.

After the client click on Show POI link he/she can select what POI or group of POI , previously defined, will be shown in the map using the filter icon.

To restore All POI view, the client must click on the filter icon and  select Don’t Filter option in the drop down.

Every vehicle that have installed the temperature sensors will shows the temperature value as we can see in the following picture.

When the A/C  compressor  is OFF,  both: alarms icon and temperature values are shown in grey color. If there is no alerts defined, when the REFEER compressor is running the alarm icon goes to solid red and the temperature values are shown in green color, as you can see in the following picture. If there is a temperature alert defined, with minimum and maximum thresholds and the temperature values  are shown in green color, it means these values are inside the range defined on the temperature alert.

When the temperature value reach the maximum threshold defined in the temperature alert, the value on Live Monitoring page is shown in red color. If the  sensor values go down and reach the minimum threshold then the temperature value is shown in blue .

Contact reseller to know how these functionalities work and how it could be useful for your business. A VPN has to be created between SIM provider and at.Compass servers.

Vehicles Tab

The first tab (Vehicles) is where all the information regarding each vehicle is displayed. The option Show All Vehicles indicates the system to remove any filter and show all active vehicles and all the corresponding data. The Google Earth option will open up Google Earth and will display each vehicle on it. A nice feature that at.Compass offers is that once Google Earth is open you will be able to track your GPS devices. Google Earth connects every minute to the at.Compass system to update each vehicle’s current position. To speed the search for information we have programmed a link called Filter Vehicles w/Alarms. This link will only show the vehicles that have an active alarm. It is important to know that this alarm have to be attended (click on it) in order to be cleared out. The next segment is going to be dedicated to each vehicle registered in the system. In this segment first you will see the name of the vehicle (in the example Demo T101), next to it can be found the value associated with the speed of the vehicle at the time of the monitoring. To the right is the date and time associated to the data shown and next to it will be the three signals A1, A2 y A3, each alarm will be related to the alarms previously configurated in the menu Administration/Preferences. The following information shown in our example will be the physical address where the vehicle is located. In the example next the physical address where the vehicle can be located and according to the configuration selected in Administration/preferences can be found the odometer with the miles of the vehicle, the name of the driver associated with the vehicle and the telephone number of the driver. The information of mileage, driver and telephone number will appear in the vehicle once you click over the name. If the vehicle is not selected the only parameters shown will be: name of the vehicle, date, selected alarms and physical address of the vehicle. In addition once a vehicle is selected the application will take us to a geographical location in the map where you will be able to see the location of the vehicle. When the amount of monitored vehicles is greater than ten, you have two options to navigate to a specific vehicle. First: Go to, to allow you to go to the vehicle that you are looking for, directly or Page option to select the page you want to show.

Today's Activity Tab
The second Tab, Today’s Activity is related to the location of the vehicle previously selected since 12:00 am of the current date, which will help you find the most recent trips of the vehicle in question. Firstable you should select vehicle in Vehicles Tab and then go to Today's activity tab and click on Search to get all vehivles's trip.
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When the client click on the trip’s name, a new set of controls were added. With these controls the client can make an animation of the trip. In each geographical point where the unit has sent packets, vehicle’s name, trip’s name, date and time is shown inside a box as you can see in the following picture.

The third Tab, Find, has been designed to help the user in the search of the vehicles registered in the application base on the following criteria. First you need to understand that the search criteria’s are associated to:

• Postal addresses, which can be verified by the application, in the option verify address.
• Postal addresses, which can be verified by the application, in the option verify address.
• A point in the map base on geographical coordinates, latitude and longitude in grades, minutes and seconds. This coordinates can be obtained by clicking a point in the map.
• A point of interest pre-defined in the system by the user. By taking into consideration the previous search criteria, the user will be able to obtain a list of the nearest vehicles to the specified location. In the example to the left can be seen the search of a verified address.

Once the vehicles are found the results will tell you some additional information like the distance to which one is located, the odometer, name and phone of the person that is driving the vehicle . The user could click over the name of the vehicle and the application will show you this specific vehicle in the map.

The other search criteria are base on a location on the map. In this case the user can click in a point over the map and automatically a geographical location will be defined in grades, minutes and seconds. The same way by clicking over Find Closest Vehicle, all the vehicles will be shown together with their distance from the point selected. If the user clicks over any of the vehicles they will be show on the map. The last search criteria incorporated in this version 2.0 is based of Points of Interest predefined by the client.Once a Point of Interest is selected in the Drop Down Menu of P.O.I., the application will show the vehicle or vehicles (according to the user’s selection in the list of vehicles) the distance to which they are from the Point of Interest and again by clicking over the vehicle in question it will be shown in the Map.

In the following paragraph we will talk about another function of the application which is designed to find a route from a location of a vehicle to any place. First the user needs to select in the tab Find, that what they need to find is a route. Then, the user need to select what type of route will be generated. There are three types: Car, Truck or routes for Pedestrian.

Note: To use this funcionality the user must be using MAP24 as map provider.

The next step will be to select the vehicle for which a route needs to be found baseon the three search criterias used by: the Postal Address, a Point in the Map or a Point of Interest previously defined by the user. The route will be shown in the map inmediatelly. In addition the system will specify the amount of time that the vehicle will take by taking this route and the total distance from the location of the vehicle to the final destination of this route. The system will show the user step by step instructions from the point of origin to the desired destination previously defined by the user based on a Postal Address, a point in the Map or a Point of Interest.
The search of a route from a point in the map or a Point of Interest previously defined by the user will be the same as the search of a vehicle. The result will always be shown on the map which will be a big help when looking for the most efficient routes, with less time or distance which will help the company be more fuel efficient. 3D ROUTE FLIGHT: This is a great feature we have included with at.Compass. On the map, click on Route Flight (bottom and left on the map), then click on the 3D checkbox and finally click on the play button. The route to follow will be shown in an animation on the map letting you know every turn and the name of the road.