TrackRoad GPS User Guide

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TrackRoad GPS

User Guide

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Overview

Welcome to TrackRoad GPS – TrackRoad GPS offers GPS services for virtually any kind of vehicle for both personal and commercial usage. Whether it is to better inform you of where your vehicle is located, or to use on your next trip, Our GPS devices are designed to be very thorough and make sure you are well informed of your vehicles at every moment. From car theft to business travel if anything happens along the way you will be well informed as it happens, live, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We have broken down our GPS service into the following categories for your benefit:

GPS for Fleets

Regardless of the nature of your fleet vehicles, whether they consist of public buses delivery trucks, or any other type of service vehicles, TrackRoad GPS systems can ensure that your vehicles, your employees, and your investment are all protected. There are many ways in which TrackRoad GPS can protect your fleet:

Vehicle positioning: You can know, with complete certainty, the location of any of the

vehicles in your fleet. Further, you will be able to track whether your employees are arriving and departing on schedule, as well as whether any of your vehicles are exceeding posted speed limits.

Engine idling: Needless idling can signal a waste of time, a waste of gas, and a waste of

money! It can also lead to excessive carbon emissions. We all want to minimize our carbon footprint as well as our bottom line. This preventative measure can ensure that idle time is kept to a minimum.

Vehicle maintenance: TrackRoad GPS can protect not only the life of your vehicles,

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GPS for Cars

There are many reasons why smart consumers feel compelled to add the TrackRoad GPS system to their cars, motorcycles, and other vehicles. Here are three of the most popular reasons:

1. Theft recovery: If you have a TrackRoad GPS system installed in your vehicle, then

your vehicle can be tracked down. Period. It doesn’t matter if your vehicle has been shut down or turned off, your vehicle can be found and recovered with TrackRoad.

2. Tracking family members: A TrackRoad GPS system can help consumers to track

their family members in a number of ways. For example, the system can track how often a vehicle arrives at a particular destination, or a vehicle’s movement in a given period of time. With TrackRoad, no longer will you need to worry over the

whereabouts of your elderly parents or rebellious teenagers!

3. Preventing reckless and dangerous teenage driving: With a TrackRoad GPS

system in your teenager’s car, your teens will know that mom and dad are watching them at all times. If you’re teen knows that you are aware of speed, distance, and destinations, he or she will be more likely to behave like perfect angels rather than speed demons!

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GPS for Motorcycles

TrackRoad GPS services offer efficient and effective technology for tracking your valuable

motorcycles. The TrackRoad GPS system will offer optimum service and reliability, everything you would hope for and expect in your GPS tracking system, without the added strain of it draining the life out of your battery. TrackRoad GPS is both efficient AND effective. Guaranteed!

GPS for Watercrafts

A TrackRoad GPS system is an aggressively preventative way to protect your valuable property with 24-hour access to the location and other vital information you need to track your personal and business assets. Loss prevention and recovery truly supersedes any insurance claim, and a TrackRoad GPS system can give you all you need to find and recover your vehicle, truck, motorcycle, lawn mower, and other assets.

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GPS for Landscaping Equipment

A TrackRoad GPS system is an aggressively preventative way to protect your valuable property with 24-hour access to the location and other vital information you need to track your personal and business assets. Loss prevention and recovery truly supersedes any insurance claim, and a TrackRoad GPS system can give you all you need to find and recover your vehicle, truck, motorcycle, lawn mower, and other assets.

TrackRoad GPS offers a wide variety of products and services. Our industry experts are happy to answer any questions you may have, or to simply give you more information on our GPS systems.

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TrackRoad Web Browser Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Although TrackRoad GPS is designed to be compatible with most web browsers, TRACKROAD GPS Website minimum web page requirements are as follows:

 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher

 current stable releases of: o Mozilla Firefox o Apple Safari o Google Chrome

Older versions of these browsers may also be suitable, but TRACKROAD GPS does not maintain, nor test for browsers that are not listed above.

If you are not sure of the version of your browser, select Help in the menu bar of your browser and choose About.

Supported languages

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TrackRoad GPS Work Environment

The TrackRoad GPS Website

The TrackRoad GPS Website provides access to several web pages. Access the web pages via the menu items on the toolbar. The options are:

 Home – The is the initial or main web page of the TrackRoad GPS website

 Products – The Products and Services web page

 Solutions – The Industry driven solutions web page

 Videos – The page that contains videos of the GPS systems

 How it works – The page that explains the TrackRoad GPS service process

 Contact us – Page to contact TrackRoad GPS

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The Main View

When a user logs in the Main view or the Map Screen displays. The TrackRoad GPS Map Screen is divided into two main panels: The Map Display Panel and the Function Panel.

The Map Display Panel

The Map display Panel displays the city map with the vehicle (s) location as an icon and identifier as shown below:

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The Multi-Function Control Panel

The Multi-Function Control Panel displays the following functionality:

 Drive Report  Configuration Alerts  Group Console  Show Breadcrumbs  Show Traffic  Clear Traffic  Calendar  GeoFence

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Using TrackRoad GPS

TrackRoad GPS Login, Logout

To Log In

To login into the TrackRoad application, access the TrackRoad GPS website via the link below:

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The TrackRoad login screen displays.

Follow the instructions below: 1. Type in your Username 2. Type in your Password 3. Click on the Log In button

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The TrackRoad GPS Map Screen displays. The Map Screen is the main view of the application.

To Log out

To Log out click the browser’s back button until the TrackRoad GPS Home page displays.

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Change Password

To change your Password

1. Log on to TrackRoad GPS.

2. Proceed to the top right hand side of the screen and click on the My Account Information menu link. It will read Howdy, Your name. The sub-menu displays. Click the Edit My Profile option.

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4. Scroll down to the New Password field 5. Enter the new password

6. Repeat new password

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If you forget your Password

1. Log on to TrackRoad GPS. 2. Click the Lost your password link?

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TrackRoad Functionality

Changing the Vehicle Identifier

To change the Vehicle’s identifier number with a name or your own numbering system, click the identifier button on the bottom left hand side of the Main View Screen and when the Enter New Text Dialog displays enter the new identifier, your user name and password and click the Set button.

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Multi-Vehicle Display Drop-Down Menu

The Multi-Vehicle Displays allows the display and tracking of one or multiple vehicles. It is a great filtering feature to hone in to one vehicle or see the activities of all.

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Drive Report

To obtain a drive report on any of your vehicles choose the desired date range from the From and To calendar fields.

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The driving report for the vehicle displays.

The report contains the following information:

 Actions: Arrive, Depart

 Time: Time of arrival or departure

 Location: Departure or arrival location

 Max Spd: Maximum speed used

 Avg Spd: Average speed used

 Drive Time: The length of time of the drive

 Distance: Distance covered

 Time Parked: Time the vehicle was parked

 Time Idle: Time the vehicle was idle

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Configuration Alerts

Create alert with the Configuration alert feature to get an automated email when the criteria specific for the alert happens.

1. Click the Configure Alerts link 2. The configured Fences screen displays

3. Enter the Type of alert:

 Idle  Power Alarm  Ignition On  Over Speed  After Hours  PTO On  Door Open

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4. Enter the comment identifying the alert

5. Enter the e-mail address of the recipient of the alert 6. Enter the number of violations to be ignored, if any 7. Enter the Maximum Number of Alerts

8. Enter if apply to group

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Group Console

The Group Console feature allows the user to graphically see multiple vehicles within a map display. 1. Click the Group Console link to access.

2. The default view displays:

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Show Breadcrumbs

The Breadcrumbs feature is a navigation aid to track the location or the travel track of a vehicle for the day.

1. Select the desired date in the calendar displayed at the bottom right section of the Multi-Function Control Panel.

2. Check the Breadcrumbs checkbox located in the middle section of the Multi-Function Control Panel.

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Show Traffic/ Clear Traffic

The Show Traffic feature is an excellent feature to use in order to find best paths to your destination as well as avoid congested traffic areas. A call from one of your drivers to a dispatch or the office can quickly save time by using this feature.

1. Click the Show Traffic button to display traffic patterns

2. Click the Clear Traffic button to clear the traffic patterns from the map and bring back the default view.

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Calendar

Use the calendar to navigate. Choose the date and the month you want to see display in the Map View Screen.

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GeoFence

Set a Geographic Fence, GeoFence, to setup perimeter for your vehicles. If a vehicle violates these pre-set boundaries, an e-mail notification will be sent to alert you that the pre-pre-set radius has been crossed.

1. To setup the boundaries, click the GeoFence button.

2. This activates the markers around the vehicle that can be dragged to setup the geographical boundaries.

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3. Select if the boundaries set are for: a. 1 shot – one time only b. Enter – Entering the boundary c. Exit – Exiting the boundary

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Additional Information

Note: Contact Technical Support for training, questions, or concerns. The telephone number is: _______________________________

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Contact Us

The TrackRoad Website has a video with information on TrackRoad and its functionality and other pertinent and relevant materials. Also find the contact area where you can enter your name, email, and message and a TrackRoad professional will quickly respond to your inquiry.

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Legal Notices

The information contained in this document is the proprietary and exclusive property of TrackRoad GPS. Copyright 20xx – all rights Reserved. No part of this document, in whole or in part, may be reproduced, stored, transmitted, or used for any purpose without the prior written permission of TrackRoad GPS. Information may be changed or updated without notice. TrackRoad GPS reserves the right to make improvements and/or changes to products, programs, and specifications described in this manual without notice.