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Roadmap Monthly Newsletter | [email protected] | Tel + 351 214 135 670 | Fax +351 214 135 678 Frotcom vehicle tracking system | www.frotcom.com Angola |Belgium | Brazil | Bulgaria | Cameroon | Cyprus | D. R. Congo | Greece | Italy | Kenya | Luxemburg | Macedonia | Madagascar | Mauritius | Morocco | Portugal | Reunion Islands | Romania | Rwanda | Senegal | Serbia | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Slovenia | Spain | Tanzania | Uganda
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Roadmap monthly newsletter
Editorial
eptember in many Northern Hemisphere countries
marks the re-launch of the economic activity, after
the silly season typically associated to summer
holidays.
It is therefore common for companies to return to their activities and launch
their projects during this month. Frotcom is no exception.
For instance, our R&D is completely redesigning the method for the
programming and registration of new devices in the Intranet. It is now becoming
a highly automatic process, allowing Frotcom International to cope with the ever
growing number of activations requested by Frotcom Certified Partners and
their clients.
Moreover, deep optimization of Frotcom’s web interface is taking place, with a
special focus on maps. This will result in faster maps manipulation and an overall
more user-friendly and consistent web interface.
In parallel, other activities are also being developed, such as the launch of a new
video about Frotcom, presented in this edition of Roadmap. More videos will
follow, containing simple and to-the-point Frotcom tutorials.
This multi-front approach is enriching the
Frotcom experience and yes, we’ll have
more surprises soon.
Read all about it in Roadmap.
Valério Marques
CEO - Frotcom International
A note from the editor – If you would like to have your own
say in the next edition of this newsletter please do not
hesitate to get in touch at [email protected].
S
September
2011
In this issue
New features
Adaptive Tracking
Europe Vicinity Roaming
Improved Appointments Alarm
Case Study
Frotcom sponsors FSL rally team
News and events
New Frotcom Video is now available
This and much more…
Roadmap Monthly Newsletter | [email protected] | Tel + 351 214 135 670 | Fax +351 214 135 678 Frotcom vehicle tracking system | www.frotcom.com Angola |Belgium | Brazil | Bulgaria | Cameroon | Cyprus | D. R. Congo | Greece | Italy | Kenya | Luxemburg | Macedonia | Madagascar | Mauritius | Morocco | Portugal | Reunion Islands | Romania | Rwanda | Senegal | Serbia | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Slovenia | Spain | Tanzania | Uganda
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New Features
Adaptive Tracking – A new tracking experience
Adaptive tracking is an alternative to the “one-
position-a-minute” standard. It will send
positions when the vehicle makes a turn,
which also eases the reading of the path on
the map.
Adaptive Tracking will transmit data under the
following conditions:
1. With ignition ON
a) If the GPS receiver detects a turn > 30 degrees (the vehicle is turning);
b) Every 5 minutes if no turns are detected as described above.
2. With ignition OFF - Every 20 minutes.
Release of the new Europe Vicinity Roaming service
Europe Vicinity Roaming is a new roaming
option for Europe, in which the roaming is
limited to a total number of 6 countries,
usually around the company’s home
country.
All the companies which have the need for roaming limited to a vicinity of their
home country can benefit from this option.
Appointments Alarm has been improved
Frotcom has now an improved version of the
Appointments Alarm, where multiple instances
are configurable, both in time and mileage. It also
allows users to link their appointments to specific
entities (suppliers) and cost types available in
Frotcom’s Management module. This way, it is
possible, for instance, to know which vehicles
need to be inspected by a specific inspection
entity.
Did you know?
Frotcom goes
on a boat trip!
Until now Roadmap followers have
been used to reading words like
vehicle tracking or vehicle maps.
Today, we enlarge a little bit more
the horizon to let you know that
Frotcom embarked upon a sea
journey.
At the middle of August a boat left
the shore of Greece with a Frotcom
GPS tracker on board, traversing a
distance of 83 km in 2h13m. The boat
owner used Frotcom so that his
friends and family could follow his
trip.
Roadmap Monthly Newsletter | [email protected] | Tel + 351 214 135 670 | Fax +351 214 135 678 Frotcom vehicle tracking system | www.frotcom.com Angola |Belgium | Brazil | Bulgaria | Cameroon | Cyprus | D. R. Congo | Greece | Italy | Kenya | Luxemburg | Macedonia | Madagascar | Mauritius | Morocco | Portugal | Reunion Islands | Romania | Rwanda | Senegal | Serbia | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Slovenia | Spain | Tanzania | Uganda
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Case study
Frotcom and Fast Lane Sport (FLS) - two winning teams
On September 2nd Frotcom Spain
signed a sponsorship agreement
with Spanish FLS Rally Team.
The FLS Rally Team is formed by two
pilots, Roberto Ballesteros and
Ainhoa Sarasua, who although
young, already have a lot of
experience behind.
At the moment, the team drives a Renault Twingo R2 and a Peugot 207 THP.
The FLS team has a large track record of participations in various competitions,
both national and regional, as listed below:
The Catalan Championship of asphalt rallies
The Regional Catalan Championship of gravel rallies
The National Championship of asphalt rallies
The objectives of the team for this year are to compete in the Spanish Asphalt
Rally Championship integrated in the Challenge Renault Twingo R and to
achieve the maximum possible of clocked-up kilometers in all other
championships of the central region.
You can check the official page of the team, where you can find information
about the championships the team participated in, the results, members profile
and much more: http://flsteam.es.
Tip of the month
Associate a department with
places, vehicles, drivers or
trips in Frotcom.
Frotcom has made it possible for
users to associate departments to
places, vehicles, drivers or trips.
A new option “Departments” is now
available on the left column of the
Administration tab. By clicking this
option a departments table will
appear.
Then, by pressing the New
department button, the following
window will pop up for you to fill in:
It is now possible to generate some of
the reports for specific departments.
Roadmap Monthly Newsletter | [email protected] | Tel + 351 214 135 670 | Fax +351 214 135 678 Frotcom vehicle tracking system | www.frotcom.com Angola |Belgium | Brazil | Bulgaria | Cameroon | Cyprus | D. R. Congo | Greece | Italy | Kenya | Luxemburg | Macedonia | Madagascar | Mauritius | Morocco | Portugal | Reunion Islands | Romania | Rwanda | Senegal | Serbia | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Slovenia | Spain | Tanzania | Uganda
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News and events
New Frotcom video is now available!
Frotcom International has recently
released on YouTube a brand new video
which displays a simple and concise
portrait of Frotcom Vehicle Tracking
System characteristics.
Frotcom’s message is embedded in an
attractive audiovisual aid of 3:43 minutes
length. The video also captions switchable
subtitles representing the languages of all
Frotcom Certified Partners countries.
To watch the video, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-DisfKOqRg.
Frotcom Indian Ocean Road show
Frotcom Indian Ocean has been organizing road
shows every weekend in different shopping
centers around Mauritius. The purpose was to
engage visitors in a real demonstration of how
Frotcom Vehicle Tracking system works.
This activity has been taking place twice per
month and will go on until the end of the year.
So far the public proved to be receptive, showing
interest in Frotcom and providing positive
feedback.
According to Fawzy Delyor, Managing Director
of Frotcom Indian Ocean, “These events have
highly marked the brand awareness, getting
companies in real contact with the Frotcom
system.”
Roadmap congratulates Fawzy Delior and
Frotcom Indian Ocean team for this successful
initiative.
Next, on Roadmap
News and events,
more new Frotcom features
and tips will be presented.
This and more, so don’t miss
the next issue of Roadmap.