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SIM Card Requirements (prior to start)
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The provider cannot guarantee the availability and accuracy of the map data. The standard map is OpenStreetMaps. The addresses and street names are coded via openstreetmaps from the GPS coordinates. Openstreetmaps.org is a public domain adress service, and anyone can add or change streetnames to openstreetmaps.org. TeleAtlas is paid one time licence for one device on its own without updates. Updates can only be made by TeleAtlas. TeleAtlas is available for most of the countries in Europe and the Middle East (GCC countries, Egypt and north Africa). If the position is not in one of these countries, it will be shown with only the coordinates without the street names.
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Additional maps (e. g. BING Maps or GOOGLE maps) can be shown, optionally added as a paid option if needed. There is not going to be a contract with the map provider, if this happens. If needed, the licence agreements are provided by the user. Additional mapping providers such as Google can be shown, but it is mandatory part of our standard deliveries and the customer is liable to enter in any license agreement with such mapping providers if requests.
Effects of different GPS Tracking Devices
- Please read through this chapter very carefully. Our GPS devices are always delivered with a standard configuration. Special configurations can differ by each customer and can’t always be documented.
- The software can only work as intended, when the devices are installed correctly.
- Not all of the functions in the software are supported by all our different devices.
- There are can also be functions of the devices which are not supported by our software.
- Also there are functions for devices which are not standardized or only optional.
- The settings differ from device to deviceThe tests are always done with the device itself. For details please contact our office directly.
- Control the device for its accuracy to avoid longer times of errors
- Tolerances: modern GPS devices are very correct, say position, date and time, kilometres and speed; but there can also be errors. (e. g. wrong GPS signal
- Please note that this device is only delivering the exact time point of the GPS position (not in between the positions) and that can differ from the reality.
- Please note that in very rare cases there are GPS „jumps“ in the history. They can cause inaccurate positions and wrong speeds. With exceptions, these errors can be analysed in the historic raw data files.
The installation has to be done by professionals and exactly like the installation manual. This is very important for the accuracy of the devices.
Energy-Mode (Real time and sleep mode)
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Mode | No GPS-Fix | Bad GPS-Fix | Good GPS-Fix |
Requirement | Inside buildings, under bridges, tunnels Wrong position of GPS antenna or antenna broken After device-startup | Near to buildings Bad position of GPS antenna Too less satellites | Good view to the sky Un-covert GPS antenna
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HDOP Values | HDOP > 8 HDOP value is not available, HDOP warning is shown in software | HDOP between 1.5 and 8 HDOP value is not being sent, HDOP warning is shown in software | HDOP <= between 0.5 and 1.5 HDOP Value very accurate |
Effect | No current position No additional information | Current position could be in-accurate Data is sent No additional information | Current accurate position Data is sent Driving distance (second-by-second odometer), speed, etc. |
Consequences | Track will be shown as “straight line” | Track will be precise, but the driving distance and speed will not be accurate | Track is precise Driving distance is precise Speed is precise |
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Mode | Ignition ON | Ignition OFF | No Ignition connected |
Requirement | Ignition connected with digital input according InstallationManual | Ignition connected with digital input according InstallationManual |
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Effect | Trip is started | Trip is finished | Movement data |
Consequences | Start of trip in logbook | End of trip in logbook, start of waiting time | No accurate measurement of start and end of logbook |
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Importance of the ignition for the software
If the box is only connected to the power via ignition plus, the timestamps are shown with a bad or no GPS fix. (30 seconds up to 4 minutes).
If the box has no ignition signal on the digital input, there can’t be any entries of waiting times with ignition ON and the device can’t differ between it, the logbook will be empty if this is the case!
Definition for waiting-time, idle-time with ignition ON and driving time
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Certain tracking devices have no ignition input (e.g. personal mobile battery tracker CT07). They send data when the device is moving. Short movements below 10 meter are set to 0 to show stops. Else the device would always detect small movement even if you are stopped.
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The legal requirements for using and accepting a logbook differ from country to country. There is no guarantee that your financial authorities accept our logbook just because we call it a „logbook“. The term as such is no guarantee. Please refer to our standard terms.Normally Normally our logbooks are very precise. But external factors (GPS jumps, problems with ignition, no GPS fix) can affect the logbook. Please check your logbook from time to time.
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Report Requirements
- Reports are stored normally for 12 monthsaccording a data storage time and deleted automatically. You are responsible as a user for the filing and saving of your companies data. We suggest that you control your data backups and files at least every week. Since we are not responsible for your data backups and filing.
- The data in different reports don’t necessarily match each other. Rounding or different calculations could be the reason.
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- Only selected tracking devices support a connection with a navigation device.
- Requires a compatible Garmin navigation device, we can provide you with a list of devices
- Requires a special FMI cable
- The Garmin device must be installed properly in the car (with permanent power)
- The software must be enabled to support navigation.
- The sleep mode on the tracking device must be de-activated and “Navi connected” must be set in the asset configuration
BETA-Features
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Requirements for smartphone applications
- Downloading, installing and using smartphone apps are handled by the user. There is no guarantee that all
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- features will work
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- with all smartphone modells.
- The support for individual smartphone users is not included.
- There might be additional charges for downloading and using apps and mapping data