Aspire GPS Integration

Once tracking devices have been installed and configured in company equipment and vehicles, the information returned by those devices can be utilized within Aspire.   

This information can be utilized in the following ways:

• Automatic Vehicle Meter Reading – Each night, Aspire can be set up to automatically update meter readings on the vehicles. 
• Vehicle Map Location – The Schedule Board provides an Equipment Location Search option for displaying a map that pinpoints the locations of the primary vehicle assigned to each route for a route manager.
• Vehicle Alerts on Schedule Board – The Schedule Board provides access to vehicle alert information for the primary vehicle assigned to any route.
• Property Stop Duration in Time Entry – On the Time Entry screen, Aspire shows the duration that the vehicle was stopped at the property for each work ticket based on the property’s defined geo-fence.

Aspire can automatically update meter readings for vehicles with GPS tracking.   It will perform these updates if the Create Equipment Readings option is enabled on the Aspire GPS Integration tab of the Application Configuration screen. The update will occur each night. For each vehicle, Aspire will determine how many miles the vehicle traveled since the prior update, and will add those miles to the prior equipment meter reading. A new meter reading is created with the new value.

If the meter reading becomes out of sync with the actual vehicle, you can enter a manual meter reading specifying a value matching the vehicle as shown below. This will bring the meter readings in Aspire back in sync with the vehicle odometer.

Aspire provides the Equipment Location Search from the More drop-down menu on top of the Schedule Board to display the Equipment Location Search screen that shows the location of vehicles equipped with enabled GPS tracking devices.

On the Schedule Board, Aspire displays an Alert Symbol on a day for which the GPS device recognized an alert associated with the primary vehicle on the route.  If you right-click on that day, Aspire provides the Show Alerts option in the pop-up menu. Selecting this option displays a list of alerts. 

Aspire reports the following types of alerts for the primary vehicle assigned to the route:

• Harsh braking
• High speed
• Rapid acceleration
• Speeding
• Device Tampering

On the Time Entry screen, Aspire provides a new GPS Stop column that displays the duration in hours of the total time the vehicle was stopped at the associated property.