A really useful feature of vehicle tracking is geofences. Geofences can send you an email alert when one of your vehicles enters or exits a geographical zone in real time, so it lets you know straight away! Adding a geofence is easy; click add on the toolbar, then choose the shape you want your Geofence to be (either a rectangle or a polygon). To draw a polygon, just click on the map and start selecting boundary points for the geofence. To draw a rectangle, simply drag the mouse over the area that you want to have a geofence around. Next, you can choose properties of the geofence, like giving it a name, a description and adding the email addresses that you want to have alerts sent to. Finally, you select the vehicles that you want to apply the geofence to, so you'll be notified when one of those vehicles goes in or out of the geofence.
Having a geofence means that you will be alerted when one of your delivery trucks is going to make the delivery to a customer, so you can let your customer know in advance of the delivery being made. Alternately, if you are waiting for a vehicle to make a collection, you will know when it is about to arrive and you can get the packages ready to be loaded onto the truck and delivered to your customers. There are so many other ways that you can use a geofence and it can really benefit your company in saving time and money!
We use a Geo-Fence as a speed trap for vehicles going through the local village where our HGV vehicles are based.
ReplyDeleteWe had some complants from our neighbours that our vehicles were travelling too quickly. We placed a geo-fence at certain points of the road through the village. Everytime a vehicle passes through the geo-fence it creates the time and speed that vehicle is travelling at. Now we have a report emailed to us showing any vehicle and speed, therefore allowing us to see anyone who is speeding and act accordingly.