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February 5, 2008

P-Trac Micro GPS+AGPS Tracking System Review

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Viewing Personnel Details
Figure 10: Viewing Personnel Details

You can enter various details about each person configured within the tracking system. This information is optional, and may or may not make sense for your own particular tracking needs.

Maintenance Details
Figure 11: Maintenance Details

If you plan on using the P-Trac Micro to track a vehicle or piece of equipment, the system allows you to enter details about the equipment's maintenance schedule, service log, service status, and more.

Reports
Figure 12: Reports

Many customers will be satisfied just using the Locate function to determine the P-Trac's location. Those looking for more powerful reporting options will find flexible and advanced reporting capabilities on the Reports tab of Brickhouse's customer portal, shown above.

This screen allows customers to perform the following actions:

  • Fleet Status - Provides a quick snapshot of the last known location for one or more selected items.
  • Route Log - Shows an item's route for a selected time period with address data, and a map view.
  • Event Details - Provides a detail view for one or more events for selected items, for a selected period of time.
  • Pending Maintenance - Shows maintenance items due in the next mileage and/or time (days) service interval.
  • Service Log - Provides a detail view for one or more service logs for selected items, for a selected time period.
  • Incident - Shows all of the emergency incidents that occurred during a given time period.
  • Log Summary - Shows which users have logged into the system.
  • Message Usage Summary - Provides a summary of message usage for selected items for the selected time period.

Route Log Reports
Figure 13: Route Log Reports

Clicking on Route Log from the Reports Menu brings up the Route Log Report screen, shown above in figure 13. This page allows you to define the specific time frame you want to view location data for.

Viewing Route Log Reports
Figure 14: Viewing Route Log Reports

Once the P-Trac has been configured to automatically upload location data every X minutes/hours/days, etc., the Route Log Report will display a graphical map of where the unit has been, along with a text list of address information and time-stamps on the right hand side. The map can also be exported to Google Maps format, if desired.

Administration Menu
Figure 15: Administration Menu

The Administration Menu allows you to configure custom tracking schedules, identify landmarks, define users, user groups, setup notification lists, escalation lists, and more.

The Landmarks capability proved especially useful during testing. Entering your Home or Work or School location as a Landmark in the system will cause that address to be translated into the recognizable name in reports, and will include the immediate area around that location as part of the same landmark. For example, if you define a child's school as a Landmark, location reports will display the name of the landmark instead of the exact address, and can be used to quickly setup geofence alerts.

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