Adding Digi routers as GPS data sources - Vehicle Monitoring 2.3.18.0

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 a Digi router as a push data source.

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 Data source, and enter an entity Name.
4. Click the Properties tab. In the Data source section, enter a unique identifier for the data source.
   This identified is prefixed to each NMEA sentence sent from the router. If the router cannot prefix a unique identifier to the NMEA sentence, use the IP address of the router.
5. From the router's configuration web page, navigate to Configuration > Position > GPS.
6. In the GPS Message section, select either Fix data (GGA) or Position and Time (RMC) as the type of NMEA sentence to include in IP messages.
   NOTE: Only select one of the GPS message options. Fix data (GGA) is the recommended method.
7. In the IP Connection section, configure the following settings:
   1. Enter the IP address, Port, and unique Prefix that you configured in the Vehicle Monitoring plugin.
      IMPORTANT: By default, the Digi router leaves a space in the Suffix field, which invalidates the NMEA sentence for the system. Ensure that the field is left blank for the NMEA sentence to be valid.
   2. Ensure that UDP is selected.