Private/Business Driving Mode Functionality
Solution description
Allowing employees to drive company vehicles for personal reasons is a widespread practice. It is an attractive perk for employees, assisting business owners to hire skilled people and boost its competitiveness. But how to effectively monitor and manage this process, generate reports and avoid a car misuse trouble-free way? To assist businesses with this, Teltonika Telematics has developed a special GPS tracker mode.
This solution will allow your company car to be used by employees for personal purposes without violating the EU General Data Protection Regulations. Moreover, self-employed people can easily convert their own car into a business asset and ensure that the data provided (such as distance traveled) is correct.
What you need for a solution?
- The Private/Business Mode Scenario is supported by FMXxyz series (excluding FMX640), which has DOUT which in this scenario is used to connect a LED for driving mode indication and DIN to connect a button that allows the driver to change the mode by pressing it.
- The SIM card in order to get data to your server
- Teltonika BTAPP mobile application to change between Private and Business modes
- FOTA WEB to remotely send the configuration to the device.
Installation
Configuration
1. Prerequisites:
1.1. Read through First start guide
1.2. Understanding of possible Sleep modes.
2. Configuring Private/Business Mode Scenario
Parameter ID – Parameter name GPRS settings:
- 2001 – APN
- 2002 – APN username (if there are no APN username, empty field should be left)
- 2003 – APN password (if there are no APN password, empty field should be left)
Server settings:
- 2004 – Domain
- 2005 – Port
- 2006 – Data sending protocol (0 – TCP, 1 – UDP)
After successful GPRS/SERVER settings configuration, device will synchronize time and update records to the configured server. Time intervals and default I/O elements can be changed by using Teltonika Configurator or SMS parameters.