2024 GPS Trackit Product Year in Review

In 2024, GPS Trackit introduced a range of product updates across reporting, mapping, alerts, video telematics, dispatching, asset tracking, and driver workflows. These updates were designed to give fleet teams more visibility into daily operations and make it easier to manage vehicles, drivers, assets, and field activity from the platform.

This year-end roundup highlights several of the GPS Trackit platform enhancements and product releases from 2024.

Reporting Enhancements

GPS Trackit added new reporting options to help fleet teams review utilization, mileage, activity, and driver data more easily.

• Hours of Use Report: Provides visibility into first on, last off, machine hours, working hours, weekend hours, billing hours, and overtime hours.
• Non-Reporting Report: Lists vehicles that have not reported within the selected date range, including unit tags, last recorded address, and the date and time of the last recorded reading.
• State Mileage Summaries: Summarizes mileage accumulated by each vehicle in each state during a selected date range. This information can help support IFTA reporting workflows.
• State Mileage Crossings: Provides additional detail about state mileage activity, including border crossings, locations, and date/time information. This data can also help support IFTA reporting workflows.
• Updated report layouts: New report layouts were added to Landmark and Utilization reports.
• Active and inactive driver filters: Users gained the ability to generate and filter reports by active or inactive drivers, while still retaining access to historical data from inactive drivers.

Why reporting updates matter

Better reporting helps fleet teams turn daily activity into information they can use. Reports can support billing, utilization review, compliance workflows, maintenance planning, driver management, and operational decision-making.

Map, Dashboard, and Alert Updates

GPS Trackit also introduced updates to help users review vehicle activity, location history, alerts, and map-based information more efficiently.

• Custom Map Layer Control: Users could upload KML or KMZ files to create customized map overlays, such as planned road closures, service territories, or other location-based information relevant to fleet operations.
• Recent Alerts Dashboard: The dashboard provided a filterable list of triggered alerts within a selected date range by unit or driver.
• Landmarks Visited Dashboard: This dashboard helped users review visits to selected landmarks and time spent on site.
• Landmarks Real Time Dashboard: This view showed currently occupied landmarks and the vehicles located within them.
• Improved Vehicle Trails: Vehicle Trails updates improved how activity data appeared on the map and simplified the trail table for easier review.
• Vicinity Tool: The Cloud Vicinity Tool helped users identify vehicles and drivers within one mile of a specific location during a selected time period.

These updates were designed to make location data easier to understand and apply, especially when reviewing routes, alerts, incident reports, service areas, or site activity.

Device Troubleshooting and Connectivity

GPS Trackit added tools to make device review and connectivity workflows easier to manage from the platform.

• Troubleshoot Device option: Users could troubleshoot fleet devices, hardwired asset trackers, and battery asset trackers directly in the platform. The tool evaluated factors such as installation status, cellular connection for supported devices, current location, odometer, and engine hours.
• Video telematics camera hotspot: Compatible video telematics cameras could provide Wi-Fi access within the supported range, helping drivers connect to business tools and applications without adding separate hotspot hardware.

For fleet teams, easier troubleshooting and connectivity support can help reduce time spent diagnosing device issues and improve access to business-critical workflows in the field.

Video Telematics Updates

Several 2024 updates focused on video telematics workflows, including clip review, event management, and driver assignment.

• Updated Clip Review: Drivers and administrators gained new ways to review automatically generated clips or snapshots, including driver review of assigned clips.
• Status and notes visibility: Statuses were added to the review process, and notes became visible to drivers through the Driver App.
• Preview from SD card: Users could preview video from the device’s SD card before requesting a clip.
• False positive review: Users could mark video events as false positives to support future detection improvements.
• Assign driver to previous events: Users could assign or reassign a trip to a driver from the Video Tab, updating associated records for that trip.

These updates helped improve review workflows and gave teams more context when managing video events, driver assignments, and safety-related activity.

ETA and Customer Communication Updates

The ETA feature was updated to help users manage live tracking links more effectively. Fleet teams could send an estimated time of arrival link to a destination and manage active, scheduled, and completed ETA links.

Users could also schedule ETA links in advance, automate them where appropriate, edit details, and resend links to specific contacts. For service, delivery, and field operations, this type of visibility can help improve customer communication and reduce manual status updates.

New Product Updates

GPS Trackit also introduced or highlighted several new products and capabilities in 2024.

FieldSync

FieldSync was introduced as field service management software designed to support dispatching, scheduling, mobile forms, reporting, and customer management workflows. It could be used as a standalone field service management application or integrated with the GPS Trackit platform.

Solar-Powered Asset Trackers

Solar-powered asset trackers were introduced to help teams monitor trailers, containers, equipment, and other assets that spend time outdoors or away from wired power. Solar-assisted tracking can help reduce manual maintenance needs and improve visibility into distributed assets.

Driver ID Bluetooth Tags

Driver ID Bluetooth Tags were introduced to help identify which driver is operating a vehicle equipped with compatible hardware. When assigned to a driver, the tag could associate that driver with the vehicle from ignition on to ignition off.

Air Recorder AI Camera

The Air Recorder AI Camera was introduced as a fleet safety camera with onboard intelligence designed to support video review and driver safety workflows. AI-assisted camera systems can help provide context around safety events and support coaching programs when used with clear policies and driver communication.

Looking Back at 2024

The 2024 GPS Trackit updates focused on giving fleet teams more ways to review activity, manage exceptions, improve reporting, support drivers, and connect field operations with back-office workflows.

Today, GPS Trackit is now Zonar, where it continues to support fleet teams with technology that helps improve visibility across vehicles, assets, drivers, safety, maintenance, compliance, and daily operations.

To learn how Zonar can support your fleet management goals, contact the Zonar team.