Dynamic cards, SMS to the driver and resource monetization

Greetings to all! We haven’t written anything for a long time , but today we’ll try to improve, talking about what we’ve done and what we have achieved in the last three months. The service itself has undergone many changes, a number of functions have been added that our main competitors do not have. In general, welcome, under the cut (a lot of pictures and text inside).

Chat with users

Well, from a technical point of view, there is no particularly great merit. We simply fastened (as for me an excellent service that no longer needs advertising) to our website, which led to a faster resolution of the problems of our users and customers. Our technical support consults. Efficiency in solving some issues exceeded even our expectations. I also want to note the fact that in the presence of a rather "active" forum , questions in the "chat" are asked quite often.

Base Station Location

An irreplaceable thing in megacities or just closed concrete garages, the bottom line is that the device transmits its LAC and Cell ID, which we display on the map automatically translating it into coordinates. It’s extremely unrealistic to calculate the mileage by such coordinates, but it’s easy to determine the location of the vehicle (area, and sometimes the street) when the GPS antenna is off. It is also now extremely simple to use any (absolutely any mobile phone with java) as a tracking (or security) device.

Sms

About sms informing users asked and wrote for a long time. At the moment, smacks are tied to almost any event that can occur with a car, whether it is speeding or just opening a door. SMS is not tied to the balance on the device’s SIM card, but tied to a personal account in the system, from which SMS charges are deducted. This service works in almost all countries of the world where there are mobile operators. The entire event processing cycle lies on the server side, which means that you do not need to be constantly on-line, in case of an alarming event (or programmed action), the SMS will come by itself, informing the operator or host. One of the features of working with SMS is the ability to assign information from digital sensors,

SMS to driver

In the system, a driver or several drivers is attached to each vehicle, but only one is assigned during a flight. Each driver has a mobile phone, which in turn is tied to his account. Now the operator (dispatcher) can send messages (about changing the route, for example) directly from the monitoring service, dialing it and sending it via the send form. Further, this function will develop into communication with the driver using the navigator or PDA, but at the moment it is the most convenient way.

Dynamic map

In earlier articles, a static map was already mentioned for insertion into the blog , we went further and made a dynamic map function, where the user can transfer information in the form of an iframe about his objects to another person or group of people. Quite convenient when holding various kinds of competitions or just a dynamically updated map for relatives who are worried about long trips. It is possible to transmit both data on all vehicles, and selectively generating different codes for insertion on the site.
Code generation form and vehicle designation:



Actually the map itself in the browser:

Updated chat with device

The function of sending commands has already been implemented in our service, but now it has undergone quite significant changes, which primarily concerned the expansion of functions. At the moment, chat with a GPS device is a journal in which you can see the last 10 messages that the server received from the device. They are reflected in the form in which it arrives at the server, and in the parsed form, i.e. in the form in which the string will be written to the database. The main purpose, in addition to management, is control over the sending of data from devices, the compilation of macros for management (changing a group of commands, etc.).

Free and commercial use

The service for non-commercial use was, is and remains free. The concept of “non-commercial use” means the use of the service by organizations that are unprofitable or socially oriented: ambulances, programs for finding children , public and youth organizationsor sports orientation (nightly competitions or games ala "Watch", etc.). Such organizations have access to the service, without any restrictions when officially contacting us. Non-commercial use also included individuals and enterprises that have no more than 5 units of vehicles or other objects connected to the service. But when large corporations arrive, connecting more than 100 units of transport in dozens of cities, this is too much. Therefore, the resource was positioned as free for non-commercial use. We would be glad to provide services free of charge to everyone, but with the growth of the service, the cost part increased almost 10 times a month (compared with the period a year ago), but these are details for another article.

The service is developing and at the moment provides many unique opportunities in various fields of activity. At the moment, people, cars, horses, dogs, planes and small boats are “monitored”, and this proves that our service helps people live, and read about its new features in the following articles.

Stay tuned!
Sincerely, Gps-tracker.com.ua