Release 6.6.0
06 Feb. 2025
Trips Invalidation:
We introduce a new approach that gives you more control over your tracking data. With this new feature, you can set your own criteria for your vehicles’ trips to comply with your fleet features/functionality.
The point is that you decide on when a trip made by some vehicle is a valid trip and the system should consider its data across the platform and when not.
How it works:
On the company settings page, you’ll find new settings that the system will use to decide on the trips’ validity.
Let’s explain them in detail:
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Invalid Trip Distance Threshold (m) (default value: 100 m): This is to filter out short trips that traveled for short distances. The trip will be considered invalid if its distance is less than this threshold. Leaving this value empty means that you don’t want to set a constraint on the distance.
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Invalid Trip Duration Threshold (second) (default value: 60 seconds): This is to filter out short-time trips. The trip will be considered invalid if its duration is less than this threshold. Leaving this value empty means that you don’t want to set a constraint on the duration of the trip.
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Invalid Trip Max Displacement Threshold (m) (default value: 100 m): This is to filter out trips that taking place in the nearby area. The trip will be considered invalid if the max displacement during it (the distance between the start point and the farthest point in the trip) is less than this threshold. Leaving this value empty means that you don’t want to set a constraint on the maximum displacement in the trips.
The following settings are to help in detecting random movement in the same place, maybe due to GPS errors:
- Invalid Trip Advanced Max Displacement to Distance Ratio (%) (default value: 5%): This constraint cooperates with the next constraint to detect fake trips that are created because of the GPS signal flutter (random locations around the start point).
In detail: the trip will be considered invalid if:
- the ratio between the max displacement (the distance between the start point and the farthest point in the trip) and the overall trip distance is less than this threshold,
- and the max displacement is less than the specified threshold in the next constraint (Invalid Trip Advanced Max Displacement Threshold).
- Invalid Trip Advanced Max Displacement Threshold (m) (default value: 500 m): This constraint cooperates with the previous constraint to detect fake trips that are created because of the GPS signal flutter (random locations around the start point).
In detail: the trip will be considered invalid if: - the ratio between the max displacement (the distance between the start point and the farthest point in the trip) and the overall trip distance is less than the previously mentioned threshold (Invalid Trip Advanced Max Displacement to Distance Ratio) - and the max displacement is less than this threshold.
Please note the following:
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The default values of these constraints are carefully selected, thus, if you are not totally aware of what to set, leave the default values to ensure your data integrity.
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The configurations you set will be applied starting from the moment of clicking “Save” button. Nothing will be applied to old trips.
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The invalid trips -as per your settings- will be omitted from all trip’s reports.
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You always can check the invalid trips on the “Trips” page depending on the new filter
The filter is controlled by a new permission from the partner. The invalid trips will be pink-highlighted and a new column with filtering ability will be available at the output for easier data tracking.
Multiple Vehicle History:
A new feature that enables you to check the path history of multiple vehicles easily. It’s limited to a maximum number of vehicles for multiple paths set by your partner.
How it works:
On the monitoring page you have 2 ways to get advantages from it:
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From the company tree, right-click on the target level and select “Explore History” if the number of vehicles under this site comply with the maximum allowed number of vehicles for multiple path feature.
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Or you can select the target vehicles directly on the map and start tracking as follows:
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click on the “Start Selection” icon on the map.
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Then select the targeted vehicles to be open in a new history page.
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The history icon will be shown on the map, click on it to go to the history page
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On the history page, you’ll see the paths of all selected vehicles during the last hour.
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Each vehicle will be colored with the same color of its path on the map
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You can set any filter you need and check the paths over it
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To check any vehicle’s detail, just click on the vehicle plate No. In the side table.
It’s worth mentioning here that we introduced another style enhancement to the vehicle history page. It’s about the “alarm” popups that appear on the map. Now it’s richer and more user-friendly. The color of its title will be controlled by your settings in the “Alarm-Types Group management” page; if the alarm is classified as a violation, the header will be in red, if not, it’ll be grey.
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