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Create up to Five Radial Geofences for each GPS Personal Location Device

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

sentryGPSid GPS tracking portal safe zone overview

With the sentryGPSid GPS tracking portal and our GL100 GPS personal tracking device, you can create up to five radial geofences (safe zones) per GPS tracking device. Each GPS device will always show a list of Zones 1 – 5, even if no zone is yet created. You can create your zones in any order. and can easily see which zones are active or inactive at any given time.
If you have more than 1 GPS personal location device associated with your account, you can switch between GPS location devices by utilizing the drop-down above the list of geofences.
Create and edit each of your radial geofences individually, but view all of your geofences for each device on one tracking map.

Creating a new GPS radial geofence

To create a new radial geofence for any of your GPS location device, simply follow the steps outlined below:
Step 1: Enter the address you wish to create the geofence around, then click the Go button.
Step 2: Enter the distance, and choose your unit of measure for the radius of the geofence, then click Go.
Step 3: Name your zone and click the Create Zone button.

Edit a GPS radial geofence

You can also easily edit your previously created and saved geofences for each GPS location device. Start by clicking the “edit” button located under the geofence which you would like to edit. Then edit the center of the location by using the drag-and-drop directions below, or edit the name or radius by entering the new information in the pop-up window. Then just remember to click the “Commit Zone Updates” button.
Hint: You can also deactive or delete any of your zones by clicking the corresponding button as well. (if you deactivate the zone, you won’t receive any alerts for breaches of that zone).

Recenter a GPS radial geofence

One of the unique features of our GPS tracking portal is the ability to “drag-and-drop” the center of your geofence on the setup map in order to recenter your geofence.
After entering the address for a new zone, or clicking “edit” in order to update a current zone, simply click on the red icon on the map that signifies the center of your zone, and hold the mouse cursor down. Now drag your mouse cursor to whatever location you wish for the center of the zone to be and release the mouse button. Now just re-save your zone!
Hint: If you switch the map to “Hybrid” view prior to starting the drag-and-drop process you can see the actual buildings and other geographical features to help ensure your GPS location device’s geofence is centered exactly where you want it.

Interested in finding out more about our GPS tracking solutions for children, adults, fleet management, asset tracking, or how they can work for your particular situation? Call our sales office at 866.825.6050, or send us an email through our online support center.

Using the Revamped GPS Tracking History Page

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Our new GPS personal location device tracking portal has several new and expanded features, one of which is the ability to query and download your GPS device’s history by date range.  Here’s how (click on the map image below to see an expanded version):

1. If you have multiple GPS devices on your account, you will see all of the GPS devices listed.  The GPS device name that is faded-out is the one currently selected.  To switch to view the history of a different GPS device, simply click on the button with the name of the desired GPS device.  If you have only one GPS device associated with your account that GPS device will automatically be selected and you will not see this option.

2. If you want to see a certain number (5, 10, 25, 50, 100 or 200) of previous points of data from your GPS device; select the number from the drop-down and click the corresponding “Go” button.

3. If you want to see your GPS device’s history in a certain date range, select both the “from” and “to” dates and click the “View History” button.  Please not the map will only show 200 points of data, starting with the most recent in the date range.

4. If you would like to export your GPS device’s history to a .csv file, you may do so by clicking on the “Download History” link.  This link will download the history according to the criteria which you have selected in the previous 3 items.

Interested in finding out more about our GPS tracking solutions for children, adults, fleet management, asset tracking, or how they can work for your particular situation?  Call our sales office at 866.825.6050, or send us an email through our online support center.

New Feature: Add, Edit & Delete Additional GPS Users

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Now you can add, edit and delete additional user accounts to view your GPS portal and to receive alerts and notifications about your GPS device.

To do so, simply log in to you GPS web portal, and scroll to the bottom of the Live Tracking screen to the My Users and Groups section.

To create a GPS portal user, click on New and then enter the appropriate information and click Save.

Customize Your View of the GPS Tracking Map

Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Choose your GPS tracking preferences

Choose your GPS tracking preferences

The SentryGPS webportal allows you to customize your view of our GPS tracking map.  Through the Settings option immediately below the map showing your GPS device, you can customize the following options:

  1. Whether or not to show the data collected from your GPS device.
  2. The ability to select the number of points of data to display from 1 to 50.  Choosing 1 will show the latest position reported by your GPS device, while choosing more than one will show the current position along with the appropriate number of historical points of data.
  3. Whether or not to show visual indicators on your map which correspond to any alert information triggered by your GPS device.
  4. The SentryGPS webportal allows you to any geaofences you have created for your device directly on the GPS tracking map.
  5. You also are provided the option of showing connecting lines between points of data (if you have selected more than 1 point of data).  This can be useful in helping o establish a travel pattern for your GPS device.

Tech Tip: Know when your GPS’ battery is low

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

The SentryGPS webportal allows you to create an alert that will automatically inform you when your sentryGPSid’s battery is low.  A low battery alert is easy to create under the Settings tab just like any other alert.  Simply:

  • create a new alert
  • type a name & description
  • under Conditions choose Sensor Reports
  • click transducer then select Low Battery and click OK
  • click Add then Next
  • under Actions select Create Alarm and Notify
  • Click Alarm Name to name the alarm, then Info to choose the alarm level, and Alarm Content to modify the alarm message
  • then click Add, Next, and Finish

there you go, now you will be alerted (by the method you have configured for the chosen alarm level) whenever the sensor detects a low battery