Server based alert areas allow you, to use extended alarm areas, like polygonic areas and corridor areas.

Summary

Please note the basics of area/field monitoring.

Even if your box does not support alarm areas, you can use server based alert areas. For it, you can define the alarm areas by a location with a circumcirrcle, as a free defined polygonic area or as a corridor along a predefined route.

Initial view

If you call the area overview, first you see the map with its predefined map extract without some vehicles. At the left corner you can see the menu, for some other actions.

Menu bar

	Help	The question mark at the right bar corner, links to this help.
	Back	Even if you don't see the start/overview page, at the left of the question mark, you can see the back button. It allows you to go back to start/overview page.

If the start/overview page is shown, at the top (directly after the top menu bar) you can read a usage notice, and there is also a link for alarm manager. There you can setup later, what action is called if a vehicle crosses the area borders. Also there is the button to add a new area.

Below this, a list of existing alert areas is shown. Depending to the user settings the alarm manager button can be also hidden, if the user dont have the right to show the alarm manager.

Depending to the last called action, the view of the menubar changes. These can view the details and options for a single area, but also  the options to create a new area. In this view. The map circumcircle switches back to its predefined view, if the home button is pressed.

Area list

If one of the shown areas is clicked, the map will zoom to the required display area and shows it. At the same time other features and options will be displayed on the relevant area at the top of the menu bar.

If you will show or create a other area, first you must go bach to the start/overview page. After it you can select or create the area. If you want to goto the start/overview page, you have to click the back arrow button at the top right corner of the top menu bar.

Area details

The area details of the selected area are always shown inside the top menubar. The listed details are:

• activate cars for area
  
• edit area
• (optional: the width of the korridor to watch)
• delete area
  
• back to overview
  
• Alert management for this area
  

Activate area vehicles

Herewith you define the cars that should be watched for crossing the borders of a area. If such event is triggered by a watched car, first a message is stored inside the position list. All following actions are managed by alarm manager.

After a "activate cars for area" click, a list of vehicles, owned by current company, and the watch state of the selected area is shown. A gray field means, the vehicle is not watched. Otherwise a green marked vehicle points to a watched vehicle. You can switch it simple by a click at the vehicle.

The quick-selection keys, to activate/deactivate all vehicles watching and the close button is placed at the top left vehicle selection corner.

At area settings you can also see the point "save car assignment". By a button click you can save the changes. You you have forgotten to save youre changes you will be asked on close if you wan to save all changes.

Edit area

The next area properties point is named as "edit area". After a click also the area view changes by showing the movable vertexes inside the map. Moreover, now the name of the area is changeable, which is shown directly below the "edit area" button.

If the current area is defined by a route, the width of the monitored corridor is additionally changeable. The change can made by moving the slider or by direct input the width value. If you input it directly the inputed value will be rounded to fully 100m. In addition, a list of created route points will be displayed. So you can simple change the targets inside the list.

If you use a older browser, or youre computes is slow, it can result in longer waiting times at complex areas.

If you will save the changes, you simple have to click the point "save changes", which is located at the same position, where you have enabled the edit mode before. After saving, the vertexes will be hidden and the area name + corridor width are set to readonly. The label of the button is now changed to "edit area".

If you have changes, not for saving, you can found the "cancel edit" button below the "save" button. This will reset the area data to the data before youre changes. Alternatively you can click inside the menu bar at the top right, the back button arrow.

The area changes will not be lost by changing the car assignment. You can save area changes by going to edit mode, or by uck arrow button.

Delete area

With a click at "delete area" you can trigger the delete action of a selected area. After you have confirmed the security question, the area will not be displayed anymore and the monitoring of area depending vehicles is also disabled. All messages before the deleting action are also accessible after a deletion.

Back to overview

Whith it, you can close the area details and go back to the starting view.. The arrow at the top right menu corner does the same.

Alert management of this area

The requirement to show this button is, the user must have the "edit" right for alarm manager. Only in this case the button click brings you to alarm manager, in relation to the chosen area data.

• If you dont have associated a alarm to current area, you directly go to input mask for defining a new alarm..
• If allready a alarm exists for current area, you will go to "edit area" input mask for change the current defined alarm settings.
• The system also allows multiple alarm entries of a area. If so, you must select the alarm to edit. Which case is the right, will be shown, if you click the button.

Area creation

If you have clicked to "create new area" inside the area list, the view at the top area of the menubar is changed and allows you to define the area as a ploygon, or as a corridor along a route.

Polygon

You must define a area name and after it you should move and scale the map view, to show the whole area to watch.

You must use the "assign alert area" button. After it you see a new yellow toned rectangle area, representing the alert area to watch. If you want to change the form and/or size of the area you can move the vertexes.

In the middle between the vertexes a small white circle is placed. If you move it, a new vertex is created.

Complex areas can be created, with up to 1000 vertexes.

Please note the area size - locate interval ratio. For server based monitoring, the GPS messages of the box are evaluated. If the location interval is large there is a possibility, a vehicle can go in and out the area between 2 messages. In this cases the monitoring fails! To solve the problem, you can change the interval of the depending vehicles to a smaller value, or alternatively you can enlarge the defined area dimensions.

If the editing is finished, you can save the alert area changes by a click to "save alert area". If you want to cancel the editing, simple click to the back arrow, at the top right of the menubar.

Corridor

Also here you have to define first a alert area name. Below them, you can create a route by filling the 2 predefined routing points. By clicking the "add another target" button you can add more routing points. After it, you can move the created points (drag & drop) to the position of youre need.

The 2 input fields let you define starting and ending points. Please note, for each point, created by a input field, you have to define the associated country. The preselected country is defined by Administration – Portalsettings – Settings / User data

Each routing point can be moved upward or downward (order), by the arrow buttons, or by drag & drop. You can also delete/clear each routing point by clicking the "X" button at the right top corner of a target list item. Clear is only used, if there are less than 3 points defined.

At the top right corner of each routing point list item also a pin needle is visibled. If you click it, you can select a predefined customer address from youre current address book. New customer addresses can be defined by Administration – Address Administration.

The top row inside the addressbook gives you a quick select area for fast preselect addresses by a single starting character. Below follows a fulltext search tool for also preselecting some adresses. Above the result table/liste the count of found adresses is shown at the left corner. If more than 100 Adresses was found, at the right side a navigation is shown (pagination). If you click at a shown address, the address is assigned to the selected routing point and the addressbook will be closed.

If you have defined a route, you can check the route by clicking "check route" at the top of the menubar. Now the addresses of all defined waypoints are checked. If only a single address was found by a waypoint, the route is directly shown inside the map.

If a waypoint address could not be found, the corresponding item is marked with red color. If a single address was found it is marked with green color. If the input isnt unique (multiple addresses was found), the background color is yellow. On multiple matching addresses also a select with all found addresses is shown. After you have selected a address from this list, it will be used as input text.

Only if all way points use a valid address the route calculation is startet..

If you have booked the automatic routing (or if not) then following view and route editing  differs.

Without routing module

In this case, the editing does similar to area editing. You can see the addresses as vertexes. The connection between the addresses will be shown by a straight line. If you want to adapt the line to the given roads, you can move the existing way popints, but also insert new waypoints.

The list updates on each inserted or moved waypoint. If you have set a waypoint outside the normal street, the text input shown a message "no address to point". But the coordinates it self are correctly defined.

With routing module

The Manipulation here works a little bit a other way for giving you a easier usage. The Route is following automatically the way of the roads. Only the waypoints, defined before are featured.

If you want to add a new waypoint, you have to move the mouse nearly to the displayed route. At next position a new white circle is shown. This circle can be moved to the new required routing position. THe route will be changed, if you release the mouse button. At the same time, the found address is added to routing waypoint list. If you move a existing waypoint, the new associated address is shown inside the waypoint list. All waypoints remain if some routing target(s) are changed.

After you have finished youre routing, below the name input you can define the width of the corridor. The operation in equal to area edit mode. You can change the width by moving the slider or by directly input the value you want to use. Please note the relation of the corridor width and length to tracking interval. The serverside monitoring only evaluate the GPS messages from the box. If the tracking interval it large, a vehicle can left and join a area unnoticed if it all occours before the next message. If you want to prevent this problem, you can set the message interval to a lower value, or enlarge the corridor width.

Finally you can save the route by clicking the "save route" button. After saving you are getting automatically redirected to area list view with the last route selected. Now you can define the vehicles to watch with this route.

Also here, you can abort all actions by clicking the back arrow at the top right, inside the menubar.