What's new in Fleet Monitoring plugin 2.3.26.0 - Fleet Monitoring 2.3.26.0

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.26.0

New filters added to Data offload status page

New filtering options have been added to the Data offload status page. These new filters support filtering on words found in AVL Unit, Archiver or Description sections.

GPS plugin geofence processing type

You can now configure geofence processing to be done using the GPS plugin. For more information, refer to Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin geofence processing.

Vehicle route playback export operation can be executed on server instead of client

You can now configure vehicle route playback exports to be done on the server side to take advantage of faster transfer speeds that may be available from the server's network. Alternatively, you can configure exports to be done on the client side to avoid using too much bandwidth on the server network.

Show export location for an export that has completed

A new column has been added to the AVL data offload status page. It shows the types of items that are included in the offload, like AVL data and video, and indicates if an export is included. You can hover the cursor over the export icon to review information related to the export, including the full path of the zip file or Clearance case name.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.24.0

Log metadata from Vehicle Monitoring

You can now activate the logging of GPS metadata in the Fleet Monitoring plugin configurations section. This goes along with the existing Log GPS data option. There are similar settings in the Vehicle Monitoring plugin and together the settings allow a head-end only deployment to choose whether the Vehicle Monitoring plugin will log the data or the Fleet Monitoring plugin. To configure this setting, refer to the General settings section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Improved high speed scrubbing in AVL route playback task

High speed tracking in the video timeline of the AVL route playback task has been improved.

Hide options panel in AVL route playback task

You can now hide the options panel in the AVL route playback task to increase the visual space occupied by the video tiles.

Use export settings from plugin configuration to pre-populate the export dialog

You can now define default export settings in the Fleet Monitoring plugin so that vehicle route playback exports will have certain fields pre-populated with information that is standard across all exports. To configure this setting, refer to the Default export settings section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.23.0

Default settings populate export when offloads are completed

You can now configure default export settings that direct automatic exports when they are set up to occur after an offload completes. To configure this setting, refer to the Default export settings section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Manual offload email notifications

You can now configure manual offload settings so that selected users receive email notifications when offloads are complete or have failed. To configure this setting, refer to the Manual offload settings section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Automatic offload after export completes

You can now configure the system to automatically do an export after the offload completes.

NOTE: These automatic exports can only be done using the REST API.

To configure this setting, refer to the Manual offload settings section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.22.1

Swagger documentation for API

You can now consult the API documentation for the REST API configuration. For more information, refer to the REST API section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.22.0

Data sinks in Fleet Monitoring

The Data push source configuration has been renamed to Data sink. Data sinks you configure will have data pushed to them from the plugin. For more information, refer to Creating Fleet Monitoring plugin data sinks.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.21.1

Optional display of location tile in Vehicle route playback task

You can now choose whether or not to automatically display the location tile in the Vehicle route playback task. For more information, see the Route playback settings section in Configuring the Fleet Monitoring Plugin metadata properties.

Metadata overlay on Route playback map tile

You can now overlay a metadata information panel in the corner of a map tile in the Vehicle route playback task. For more information, see the Route playback settings section in Configuring the Fleet Monitoring Plugin metadata properties.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.21.0

Select default zoom level for route playback maps

You can now define a geographic area that map tiles automatically zoom to fit. You can also define a minimum zone that is automatically zoomed to during an export if the map is not already zoomed to this level. For more information, see the Route playback settings section in Configuring the Fleet Monitoring Plugin metadata properties.

Display or hide ALV unit type icon

You can now choose to display or hide the AVL unit type icon when you have a custom icon background configured. For more information, see Adding AVL unit entities to Security Center.

Auto config copies entity icon

When an AVL entity is automatically created using the auto-add feature, it copies the icon of the template AVL unit.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.20.1

Data logging for AVL unit status made optional

To reduce demand on the database, you can now deactivate location data logging for the AVL plugin to prevent excessive accumulation of data. For more information, see the General settings section in Configuring the Fleet Monitoring Plugin metadata properties.

Activate and deactivate geofence processing

You can now chose to process geofence data locally, using a REST service, or opt to deactivate geofence processing. For more information, refer to Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin geofence processing.

Frame-by-frame video seeking in Vehicle route playback task

You can now track video 1 frame at a time in the Vehicle route playback task. For more information, refer to For more information, refer to Viewing vehicle route, video, and data playback using the Fleet Monitoring plugin.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.20.0

Improved high-speed scrubbing in Vehicle route playback task

Video time seeking sensitivity has been enhanced to provide a smoother experience when tracking through a video timeline in the Vehicle route playback task.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.19.2

Vehicle route playback can be configured to show text-based metadata panels

You can now configure metadata panels to show a number of text-containing tiles that show AVL metadata. If required, choose to display these metadata tiles instead of the default bus diagram. For more information, see Configuring the Fleet Monitoring Plugin metadata properties.

Vehicle route playback location data tile can be set to show or hide individual data items

You can now select what metadata to show in the Vehicle route playback location data tile. Choose from a variety of metadata such as acceleration, altitude, and speed. To configure this setting, see the Vehicle route playback settings section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

My offloads task provides a list of recently viewed offloads

You can now set the My offloads task to show up to five of your most recently viewed offloads. This setting can be configured in the Mode section of the My Offloads task.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.19.1

Entity query interval

You can now define a time interval after which the map object provider queries AVL unit entities to ensure you continue receiving events. To deactivate this feature, set it to zero.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.19.0

Vehicle route playback entity list show which are displayed

Indicators showing which entities are displayed in monitoring tiles have been added to the Vehicle route playback task.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.18.0

Raise event on fleet health state change

You can now configure Security Center events that are triggered by a fleet health state change. To learn about how to set up events-to-action in Security Center, see the following: https://techdocs.genetec.com/r/en-US/Security-Center-Administrator-Guide-5.10/Creating-event-to-actions

Timeout setting for AVL unit icons removes them from map upon expiry

You can now configure a setting after which AVL units that have not reported data in a determined time period disappear from the map. To configure this setting, see the Map settings configuration section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Hide graph tile by default in Vehicle route playback task

You can now choose to hide the graph tile in the Vehicle route playback task by default. To configure this setting, see the route playback settings section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Vehicle route playback map tile shows entire location history and can be used to set the current playback time

In the Vehicle route playback task's map tile, instead of showing the location of the AVL unit at the playback timestamp and a trail of the last few locations, you can now show all known locations during the playback time frame and show the AVL unit icons in the location at the current playback timestamp. Click any known location on the timeline to set the playback timestamp. To configure this setting, see the Route playback settings section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Route playback seek video while dragging timeline

You can now configure the Vehicle route playback task to seek the current timestamp (as changed by the timeline drag bar in the left panel) for video tiles so the user can see the video at the selected time prior to selecting a time. To configure this setting, see the Route playback settings section of Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.17.0

Automatic AVL unit creation

You can now set up automatic AVL unit creation. Create an AVL unit entity in the Area view task and designate it as your automatic creation template, then select this template AVL unit and define a default area in the Properties tab of the AVL plugin that automatically created AVL units are assigned to. When the feature is enabled, the automatic creation of a GPS unit triggers the creation of a corresponding AVL unit using the template AVL unit for its configuration. For more information, see the following:

• Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role

Add vehicle metadata using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) realtime

You can now configure the Fleet Monitoring plugin to connect to a GTFS realtime feed to determine if a vehicle is or is not running. A vehicle's presence in the feed means that the vehicle is running. Absence from the feed means the vehicle is not running. The system will keep this information as an AVL unit metadata key and value pair (similar to other key and value pairs that already exist) so it can be used in fleet health fault definitions. For more information, see Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role.

Fleet Health Report

You can now generate fleet health reports to show all of the faults that occurred during the reporting period. Before you do so, you must configure the Fleet Monitoring plugin to record fleet health history metadata. For more information, see Configuring the Fleet Monitoring plugin role and Running AVL fleet health reports

Enhanced icon adornments

Icon adornments are now shown as arcs instead of circles, reducing the number of circles on the page to reduce visual confusion.

Display unit speed

You can now activate a setting that shows the speed of an AVL unit and the units the speed is measured in the icon labels on the maps.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.16.0

Real-time Fleet Monitoring metadata monitoring tile

When an AVL unit is loaded into a monitoring tile, a graphic metadata tile and a tile containing a text-based list of metadata key and value pairs are available for display. The graphic metadata tile is only available for AVL units assigned Type: bus.

Route playback tile with visual metadata

A tile showing graphical representations of the current metadata values for AVL units that are Type: bus is now available in the Vehicle route playback task.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.15.0

REST API for offloads

You can configure the REST API at the AVL plugin level to integrate third party software with the plugin and initiate, monitor, and manage AVL data offloads. Contact your Genetec customer service rep for the API specifications.

Fleet Monitoring 2.3.14.0

Fleet Health Configuration

You can now configure custom conditions and notifications related to fleet health at the plugin level. The conditions you create define parameters which determine the health status of AVL units. The fleet health configuration tab can be used to do the following:

• Detect when a GPS unit has not submitted data for more than a specified period of time
• Detect when a successful offload has not occurred within a specified period of time.
• Define what constitutes unit failure and whether failures are major or minor faults.

AVL data offload status: manual refresh

You can now define a time period after which the list of offloads will refresh and perform manual refreshes in the AVL data offload status task.

Previous versions

AVL automatic data offload: Maximum offload chunk failure count

You can now configure a setting that specifies the maximum number of times a failed chunk of an offload is automatically re-queued.

AVL automatic data offload: Minimum elapsed time between retry of failed offload chunks

You can now configure a setting that specifies the amount of time that must elapse before a failed chunk of an offload is re-queued.

AVL automatic data offload: skip cameras in maintenance state

Cameras that are in a maintenance state are now skipped over during automatic offloads. This does not affect manual offloads.

AVL automatic data offload: Minimum elapsed time between automatic offloads

You can now define a minimum time period that must elapse between queuing of automatic offloads.

Support for Regex (regular expression) metadata key type

You can now use regular expression (Regex) as a metadata key type for your adornments.

Set adornments to support time-based metadata rules

You can now set keys for a time-based verification, such as the last time the GPS location of an AVL unit was updated.

Adornments now allow matches on multiple related keys

You can now use multiple keys in the adornment rules.

AVL fleet health: persist last known metadata

AVL units now use the last known metadata if the system is restarted and the AVL unit has not yet received updated metadata.

AVL database cleanup efficiency improvement

AVL database cleanup is now done in chunks to prevent the accumulation of large transaction logs.

AVL unit map icon customizable according to metadata

You can now set and customize icon adornments that indicate whether or not a certain numeric or regex condition has been reached.

Route playback supports entity health status

A new setting is available that you can use to monitor AVL unit health in a monitoring tile.

AVL units shown on Citigraf map

AVL units can be rendered on the Investigate map in Citigraf.

Offloads support description section

You can now add descriptions to your AVL data offloads and filter for these descriptions in the My offloads task.

AVL offline route playback player required to export route playback with player

To export route playback with the offline route playback player, you must install the AVL offline route playback player.

Export type options renamed

The export type options in the Vehicle route playback task have been renamed.

GPS and metadata info displayed when route playback export has no video

If none of the cameras involved in a route playback export have any video from the specified time frame, you can still playback GPS and metadata info associated with the export time frame.

Handle offload failures due to connection loss

If an offloads is interrupted because of a loss of network connectivity, the offload is resumed upon reestablishment of network connection.

My offloads: play partially successful offloads

Offloads that were partially successful can now be played in the My offloads task.

My offloads task shows failure info

Failed offloads now display a reason for failure in the My offloads task.

My offloads page supports re-queuing failed offloads

• If an offload contains failures, you can now re-queue the entire offload as a new offload.
• Performing a retry of an offload now leads to the AVL data offload page, where the new offload is pre-populated with the same parameters, such as time frame, involved entities, and options, as the offload being retried.
• You can now re-submit any offload regardless of whether it is online, offline, failed, completed, or canceled.

Manual data offload form defaults the Create incident feature to OFF

The Create incident feature is set to off by default for manual data offloads.

Route playback export; use pre-installed offline route playback files for package option

During the route playback export process, the Package for distribution option is only available if the user has installed the Offline route playback tool.

Route playback exports videos as g64x

The route playback export feature now exports videos as g64x files.

Allow option to consider video offload with "no other archiver found" error a completed offload

If you have cameras recording to your head end archiver and do an AVL data offload on the head end and it includes those cameras, the items are marked as completed (100% progress)

Retry offloads in the My offloads task

You can now retry failed offloads in the My offloads task.

Retrying status added to My offloads task

Offloads for which a retry is in progress now show a status of retrying.

Cancel offloads in the My offloads task

You can now cancel in-progress offloads in the My offloads task.

Pause and resume offloads in the My offloads task

You can now pause and resume in-progress offloads in the My offloads task.

Canceled status for data offloads

Canceled offloads now show their status as canceled instead of completed.

Fleet health monitoring

The Fleet health monitoring task shows a list of all AVL units with the following:

• Columns showing major and minor faults
• Faulted camera count column
• Color-coded unit health states as follows:
  • Grey: no recent status data received
  • Green: normal function
  • Red: at least one major fault
  • Yellow: no major faults but at least one minor fault

Trigger AVL automatic offload on custom event

You can now configure a custom event in Security Center to trigger automatic AVL offloads.

AVL Offload: show how much has been offloaded for a given time period

A graphical indicator is shown next to selected vehicles that shows if we have already offloaded video for this vehicle for the period. The indicator is green if we have all data for the period successfully offloaded, yellow if we have some video, and red if we have none.

AVL offload: show a warning if a long time period is selected

A passive warning is shown when the user requests an offload of over one hour.

AVL offload: check if already offloaded before queuing

When processing an offload chunk, the Fleet Monitoring plugin checks to see if the complete chunk has been offloaded in past. If so, the chunk is marked completed and an offload of this chunk is not started.

My offloads task

With the new My offloads task, you can view the high level status of video offloads you have requested and easily launch route playback for any of the offloads that are completed.

GUS for Fleet Monitoring plugin

You can now update to the latest version of the Fleet Monitoring plugin with the Genetec Update Service.

Associate an instrumented area with an AVL unit

You can now associate an instrumented area with an AVL unit, allowing you to link occupancy and capacity data from instrumented areas with the occupancy monitoring system on your fleet vehicles.

Improve custom entity icon rendering

Icons are now rendered in higher definition than in previous versions.

Manage and monitor status of AVL offload over federation

You can now query, manage, and check the status of AVL data offloads in federated systems using the My offloads and AVL data offload status task.

Export files for distribution in zip form

You can now package video and vehicle metadata for export as a self-extracting zip file, allowing you to share all sizes of export as a single file.