Adding generic NMEA GPS entities to Security Center - Security Center Fleet Monitoring 2.2

Before you can monitor GPS units in Security Center, you must add them to the plugin role. You can add GPS unit entities to Security Center using generic NMEA over a COM port.

1. From the Config Tool home page, open the Area view task.
2. Click Add an entity and select GPS unit.
3. From the Model list, select Generic NMEA, and then enter an entity Name.
   Tip: For better search indexing, it is a best practice to include the vehicle type and identification number in the entity name.
4. Click the Generic NMEA tab, and then configure the following settings:

   Serial port

   Configure the baud rate, data bits, parity, and stop bits settings of the serial port used by the hardware supplying your GPS data.

   Minimum satellites

   Minimum number of satellites required to confirm the location data of the unit.

   Read timeout

   Time, in millisecons, that the system read waits for data before a timeout. When a socket read times out, it immediately attempts another read.

   Connection retry

   Time, in seconds, before the system attempts to re-establish a connection after a read timeout.

5. Click the Properties tab, and then configure the following settings:

   Polling

   Adjust the polling times for the unit.

   • Poll interval: Polling interval in seconds.
   • Stale location age: If the system does not receive location data for the GPS unit by the time indicated here, it considers the data to be stale.

   Accelerometer

   If you are using an accelerometer, select the unit model. Define any accelerometer thresholds and whether to receive events based on these thresholds.

   Display unit

   If you are using an onboard LCD screen, select the unit model.

   Input/output device

   Input or output for external sensors.

   Local archivers

   Destination archiver for offloaded video data.

   WiFi

   If you are using an embedded WiFi adapter, select Monitor WiFi connection. You can choose to receive events when the GPS unit is connected or disconnected from WiFi, and set the intervals in seconds for verifying the unit's WiFi connection.

6. (Optional) Click the Metadata tab and override the plugin defaults for the metadata configuration of the GPS unit.
   1. Click . The Add metadata configuration windows opens.
   2. Enter a Metadata key and Triggers.
   3. To raise a GPS metadata match event, bookmark video, or protect video when the system identifies a match for the metadata key and value pair you configured, select the associated check boxes. Metadata matches can also be tied to alarms, event-to-actions, incidents, and so on.
7. Click Apply.