A Servicebased Approach to Realtime Vehicle Tracking and Asset Monitoring

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A Service-based Approach to Real-time Vehicle
Tracking and Asset Monitoring
September 2005
Chantale Caron
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A Fleet Management Solution

• Visual History Display Reports
• Emergency Call Display

• Address Vehicle Locator

• Vehicle symbol display based on operating status
• Points of Interest Management

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Deployment Diagram
GEAC Dispatch System
AmeriTrak AVL Server Database
CARIS Desktop Map Client with AVL support
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Chain of Events to Access AVL data
User is required to log into the system. Some of
the functionality at the map client level is role
based.
Requests are made to the server to retrieve the
features relevant to the user in question.
Once the user is subscribed to the system, the
server will start sending plot commands.
Commands are received from the server related to
the status of each vehicle
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Examples of Data Transfer Commands
Data is being pushed to the server at a
pre-determine rate. When the map client receives
the data it parses out the commands and
interprets them accordingly
gtVehicleltvehicleIdgt,ltlabelgt This command
represents a vehicle belonging to an account
gtVehicleStatusltconnIdgt,ltvehicleIdgt,ltstatusCodegt
This command is used to retrieve the active
status of the vehicle in the dispatch environment.
gtPlotltvehicleIdgt,lttimegt,ltlatgt,ltlongt,ltvelgt,lteventgt
,ltgpsQualgt This command is used to send updated
position information for each vehicle.
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Benefits of an AVL Solution

• Accountability
• Driver accountability Where and When
• Company-owned vehicles 24/7 Dispositions
• Productivity
• Operating Cost Management Fuel, Wages,
  Maintenance
• Asset Utilization Efficiency Routing, Downtime
• Revenue Enhancement Real time, efficient
  dispatch
• Risk Management
• Real-time fleet management Weather, Traffic,
  Security
• Performance/Event database Insurance, Litigation
• Reduce or Eliminate Billing Disputes

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Vehicle Symbol Display
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Custom Vehicle Symbols
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Vehicle Information

• Radio ID
• Vehicle ID
• Velocity
• Speed
• Time
• Status
• Crew ID List
• Crew Member List
• Shift List
• Current Post

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Ambulance being Dispatched
Emergency Call
Dispatched Vehicle
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Visual History

• A visual history dialog allows the user to
  defined the selection
• The results from the search are displayed as
  numbered points on the map

• A Visual history table will be populated with the
  details of each recorded position
• Users can located any of the points from the
  table by choosing the Locate option

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Visual History Commands
gtHistoryltvehicleIdgt,ltseqNumgt,lttimegt,ltlatitudegt,ltl
ongitudegt,ltvelocitygt,lteventgt,ltgpsQualitygt
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Sample Visual History Request
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Address Locator

• Geocoding is performed on the AVL server to
  locate addresses.
• Located addressed are marked on the map with and
  X symbol
• Addressed can be stored for future reference.

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Easily locate any vehicle
Find vehicle within a 2 mile radius
Vehicle ID-gt 222 Radio ID -gt 650
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Points of Interests

• Points of Interest can easily be added on the map
  and stored in the database of the AVL server.
• The user can choose from a vast number of icons
  to display the points of interest.
• Geocoding is used to locate the address on the map

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Future Enhancements

• Adding GeoFencing
• Vehicle Grouping
• Improved call management such as the ability to
  adjust the position of emergency calls via the
  map client
• Batch loading of points of interest
• Animate visual history
• Adding a default view management system
• Improvement of the vehicle symbol configuration

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Questions?