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Group and Unit Management

Group and unit actions:
  • Location request
  • Enable tracking
  • Disable tracking
  • Center the map on the unit's latest location
  • Send a standard SMS
  • Request event log
  • Send remote configurations
  • Hide/show a group or a unit on map

Unit information:
  • Phone number
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Date
  • State (Normal, Tracking, Alert)
  • Speed
  • Direction
  • Battery
  • Address
  • City



Alerts

Receives emergency messages triggered by a person or by Benefon NT 2.0 sensors.



Session Activity

All sent and received messages and main actions are displayed to the user and recorded to a file.



Map Display Functions

Map objects:
  • Unit symbol
  • Unit label
  • Unit state indicated with colour
  • Map legend
  • Scale bar

Map features:
  • Country borders
  • Highways
  • Streets
  • Residential roads
  • Shoreline detail for lakes, reservoirs and rivers
  • City names
  • Names of districts
  • Names of highways, streets and roads
  • Wide spatial coverage from main roads crossing the country to the shortest street in the city centre

Street search:
  • Location history of the instrument
  • Stepless zoom



User Rights Management

Administrator can allow/deny of access to a defined application area from the users.



Status Messages

Supports M2M communication with a possibility to remotely control Benefon Trackbox output pins and receive reports triggered by analog and digital input pins.

    Menu Functions

File:
  • Connect to a modem
  • Print map view
  • Export database
  • Logout/Exit

Edit:
  • Copy map

View:
  • Show legend on map
  • Show scale bar on map
  • Show central cross on map
  • Show switchboard

Tools:
  • Send a standard SMS
  • Search for street from the map
  • Center on location
  • Locate unit
  • Enable tracking
  • Disable tracking

Configuration:
  • Units and groups management
  • Add new fleet group to the system
  • Add new instrument to the fleet
  • Delete fleets or instruments from the system
  • Name of the fleet or instrument
  • Calling number (international format) of the instrument
  • Automatic position refresh with user definable interval and duration

Settings:
  • Modem connection
  • List of available maps
  • Memory management (amount of memory reserved for maps)
  • User rights management enabling/disabling
  • Alert settings
  • Report when settling an alert
  • Enable/disable tracking in case of an alert
  • Play sound once or continuously
  • User defined security instructions displayed on the screen after receiving an alarm
  • Send an predefined or user defined SMS to a pre-specified number
  • Predefined SMS includes information about who has emergency situation, what is his phone number, what is his position and at what address and city he is
  • Waypoint arrival/departure notification
  • Output pin labels



Remote Configuration

All the main settings in Benefon instruments remotely configurable including activation of Benefon NT 2.0 options.



Plug-ins

Plug-ins are additional extensions which add more functionality to the software. Plug-ins are available as an accessories and they can be also designed to meet specific customer requirements.