Tracking your assets
You can track your assets locations on a map and assess your tracker performance.
Before you begin
- We recommend you do a drive or walk test with your tracker to display and analyze a number of reported locations. You can also place the tracker in a moving asset you want to locate.
- The tracker must be provisioned on a ThingPark platform. To create a free account, see ThingPark platforms URLs.
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Log in to Abeeway Device Manager using the URL that applies to your environment.For example:
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Abeeway Device Manager on ThingPark Community platform : here
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Abeeway Device Manager on IoT platform: https://iot.thingpark.com/abeewayDeviceAnalyzer/?dxprofile=iot
If using another platform, see ThingPark platforms URLs.
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In the Select Devices column of Abeeway Device Manager, select the tracker you want to see the location, and click Select.
-> The tracker appears in the Selected Devices column.
Note
You can select up to ten trackers to be shown and analyzed at the same time.
- In the Device Analysis Dashboard that opens, the tracker you have selected displays its status details and statistics. Click the arrow to expand the tracker information. The information relevant to notice is:
- MCU Firmware : It gives the tracker MCU firmware version. Please refer to the Abeeway trackers reference guide matching the MCU Firmware version to know the supported features.
- First Position and Last Position of the tracker
- Last Mode : Current mode of the tracker
- Battery : Percentage of remaining battery
- Click the Map tab to see the reported locations of your tracker.
- Once you have located your tracker positions on the map, zoom in or out to get the best view of them.
- Click all the eyes to close them, then click them again slowly one by one to display each packet separately and discriminate the information. When Standard Deviation Marker is selected, a green circle is displayed around the location representing the position accuracy.
- Click a marker to display more information.
- Use the slider slowly to monitor a period of time where you want to display locations on the map accordingly.
- Click the Performance monitor tab to display statistics about your tracker.
- When opening, only the battery chart is displayed.
- Click the eyes to display more charts.
- Pause the mouse over the charts to display the date and details of the packets.
- Use the slider to change the monitoring period range.
NoteFor a given tracker, all the sliders are synchronized between each other.
- For more information about how to use Abeeway Device Manager, see Abeeway Device Manager User Guide.