1. September
2011
Roadmap monthly newsletter In this issue
New features
Adaptive Tracking
Editorial
Europe Vicinity Roaming
Improved Appointments Alarm
S
eptember in many Northern Hemisphere countries
marks the re-launch of the economic activity, after Case Study
the silly season typically associated to summer Frotcom sponsors
holidays. FSL rally team
It is therefore common for companies to return to their activities and launch News and events
their projects during this month. Frotcom is no exception.
New Frotcom Video
is now available
For instance, our R&D is completely redesigning the method for the
programming and registration of new devices in the Intranet. It is now becoming This and much more…
a highly automatic process, allowing Frotcom International to cope with the ever
growing number of activations requested by Frotcom Certified Partners and
their clients.
Moreover, deep optimization of Frotcom’s web interface is taking place, with a
special focus on maps. This will result in faster maps manipulation and an overall
more user-friendly and consistent web interface.
In parallel, other activities are also being developed, such as the launch of a new
video about Frotcom, presented in this edition of Roadmap. More videos will
follow, containing simple and to-the-point Frotcom tutorials.
This multi-front approach is enriching the
Frotcom experience and yes, we’ll have
more surprises soon.
Read all about it in Roadmap.
Valério Marques
CEO - Frotcom International
A note from the editor – If you would like to have your own
say in the next edition of this newsletter please do not
hesitate to get in touch at roadmap@frotcom.com.
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2. Did you know?
Frotcom goes
New Features on a boat trip!
Adaptive Tracking – A new tracking experience
Adaptive tracking is an alternative to the “one-
position-a-minute” standard. It will send
positions when the vehicle makes a turn,
which also eases the reading of the path on
the map.
Adaptive Tracking will transmit data under the
following conditions: Until now Roadmap followers have
been used to reading words like
1. With ignition ON vehicle tracking or vehicle maps.
a) If the GPS receiver detects a turn > 30 degrees (the vehicle is turning);
b) Every 5 minutes if no turns are detected as described above. Today, we enlarge a little bit more
the horizon to let you know that
2. With ignition OFF - Every 20 minutes.
Frotcom embarked upon a sea
journey.
Release of the new Europe Vicinity Roaming service At the middle of August a boat left
the shore of Greece with a Frotcom
Europe Vicinity Roaming is a new roaming GPS tracker on board, traversing a
option for Europe, in which the roaming is distance of 83 km in 2h13m. The boat
limited to a total number of 6 countries, owner used Frotcom so that his
usually around the company’s home friends and family could follow his
country. trip.
All the companies which have the need for roaming limited to a vicinity of their
home country can benefit from this option.
Appointments Alarm has been improved
Frotcom has now an improved version of the
Appointments Alarm, where multiple instances
are configurable, both in time and mileage. It also
allows users to link their appointments to specific
entities (suppliers) and cost types available in
Frotcom’s Management module. This way, it is
possible, for instance, to know which vehicles
need to be inspected by a specific inspection
entity.
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3. Tip of the month
Case study Associate a department with
places, vehicles, drivers or
Frotcom and Fast Lane Sport (FLS) - two winning teams trips in Frotcom.
On September 2nd Frotcom Spain
signed a sponsorship agreement
with Spanish FLS Rally Team.
Frotcom has made it possible for
The FLS Rally Team is formed by two
users to associate departments to
pilots, Roberto Ballesteros and
places, vehicles, drivers or trips.
Ainhoa Sarasua, who although
young, already have a lot of A new option “Departments” is now
experience behind. available on the left column of the
Administration tab. By clicking this
At the moment, the team drives a Renault Twingo R2 and a Peugot 207 THP.
option a departments table will
The FLS team has a large track record of participations in various competitions, appear.
both national and regional, as listed below:
Then, by pressing the New
 The Catalan Championship of asphalt rallies department button, the following
 The Regional Catalan Championship of gravel rallies window will pop up for you to fill in:
 The National Championship of asphalt rallies
The objectives of the team for this year are to compete in the Spanish Asphalt
Rally Championship integrated in the Challenge Renault Twingo R and to
achieve the maximum possible of clocked-up kilometers in all other
championships of the central region.
You can check the official page of the team, where you can find information
about the championships the team participated in, the results, members profile
and much more: http://flsteam.es. It is now possible to generate some of
the reports for specific departments.
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4. News and events
Next, on Roadmap
New Frotcom video is now available!
Frotcom International has recently News and events,
released on YouTube a brand new video more new Frotcom features
which displays a simple and concise
portrait of Frotcom Vehicle Tracking and tips will be presented.
System characteristics.
Frotcom’s message is embedded in an This and more, so don’t miss
attractive audiovisual aid of 3:43 minutes
length. The video also captions switchable the next issue of Roadmap.
subtitles representing the languages of all
Frotcom Certified Partners countries.
To watch the video, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-DisfKOqRg.
Frotcom Indian Ocean Road show
Frotcom Indian Ocean has been organizing road
shows every weekend in different shopping
centers around Mauritius. The purpose was to
engage visitors in a real demonstration of how
Frotcom Vehicle Tracking system works.
This activity has been taking place twice per
month and will go on until the end of the year.
So far the public proved to be receptive, showing
interest in Frotcom and providing positive
feedback.
According to Fawzy Delyor, Managing Director
of Frotcom Indian Ocean, “These events have
highly marked the brand awareness, getting
companies in real contact with the Frotcom
system.”
Roadmap congratulates Fawzy Delior and
Frotcom Indian Ocean team for this successful
initiative.
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