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Driver Behavior is an important safety and cost saving measure. Driver behavior alerts and reports help with Safety and Compliance, and enable you to get the most from your staff and assets.

By using Accelerometer, GPS and smart algorithms, we can produce alerts and reports on driver's behavior such as idling or parked time while inside work hours.

Idle Flag on Device

Hard-wired devices have the ability to set a digital input when idling is detected on the device. Then the server can simply look for when this input is active to log idle time - great for 3rd party platforms.. 

System Parameters 

To enable idle monitoring, we assign a Digital Input in the dropdown. This input becomes active when the Idle Time Threshold and Idle Speed Threshold conditions are met. 

E.g. for 300 and 5 as above, if:

1. The device is in trip (i.e. ignition on)
2. The speed is below 5km/h 

for over 5 min (300 sec) - The configured digital input will be set active '1'. 

Heavy Equipment Idling

Sometimes we wish to detect idling on heavy equipment such as excavators - so we know if the ignition has been left running inadvertently. The trouble is, often such equipment will be at work, in use in a stationary position. So the above idle set up will flag idling all day, while the asset is being used!

If accelerometer activity is detected - the idle input will not be set. 

Idling in Telematics Guru

Idle Alerts in TG

When idle monitoring is active and the threshold is met, the device will log a ‘digital input changed’ log reason – since wired devices are connected to the server constantly during a trip, it will connect and upload to TG.

You are able to create an alert based on the digital input chosen for idle monitoring. 

1. Go to Alerts->New Alert (Advanced)
2. Setup the alert as required: general, asset, notifications, advanced.
3. In the conditions tab, specify “Use Digital Input”:
   1. Choose the digital input you have set in the idle monitoring tab within OEM. 
   2. Choose alert when I/O is Active

 

 

Idle Monitoring in TG

Telematics Guru has an inbuilt idle monitoring tab inside 'Asset Details> Log Events' which declares an asset as 'Idle' after X amounts of minutes below a certain speed and logs it accordingly. This is the same as how the idling parameter works - but it is done on the server rather than the device.