Roadmap monthly newsletter - October 2012

October
2012

Roadmap monthly newsletter In this issue

New certified partner
Editorial Frotcom is embarking on a new
partnership in Egypt

A nd the winner is…
The winners of the Frotcom 2012’s video contest “Share the
Experience” have been decided. The video contest asked Frotcom
users around the world to submit a short video showing us their success stories
New features
Polygonal borders – A new way of
defining areas

and/or day-to-day experiences while using Frotcom. News and events
It was great to see the response from customers and users from Africa, Europe Frotcom continues its active
and South America. The winners were (alphabetical order): involvement in various sports areas

João Agostinho, Transports Supervisor at Sonils
Angola This and much more…

http://youtu.be/TzCMBcnDGJ0

Juarez de Morais, Aftersales Diretor at Group Tecar
Brasil

http://youtu.be/h8XKLMJ_uc4

Sotiris Marinakis, Logistics Manager at Med Frigo
Greece

http://youtu.be/THa0_k4iYec

Luís Chaves, Head of Sales Department at Ibervoice
Portugal

http://youtu.be/LBbUH8-Y8n4

Suhadolc Trans team, Suhadolc Rok s.p.
Slovenia

http://youtu.be/hlvL8qBKRz4

Winners will receive a GoPro (Hero Naked) HD camera and an MP4 player. Each
wining company will receive a wall map with a Computer Generated Image of its
main routes and a special discount of 200€ on Frotcom services.
Congratulations to our winners and thank you for your continued support!
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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|Tanzania |Uganda |UK |

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Did you know?

New certified partner

Frotcom is embarking on a new partnership in Egypt
Brand new Frotcom Egypt is the latest celebration of the Frotcom network. The
partnership with company Al Nozom represents a commitment to optimize fleet Fuel cell cars can be a
management in Egypt. solution for the present
times
Founded in 1999, Al Nozom is a reputable engineering company handling all
If before experts believed that
services of digital maps production by using all the methods of field survey, hydrogen-powered vehicles were
photogrammetric or geographic information systems. For a global and more a long-term solution to the oil
detailed profile of Al Nozom, you can visit their website here. dependence problem (with
hybrids, electric vehicles and other
“Teaming up with Frotcom for supplying fleet intelligence propulsion modes filling the gap),
is an interesting and featured development for the nowadays the belief has changed.
Egyptian market. We are sure that this partnership will Wonder what triggered this new
create an entrance for us to introduce a very efficient, user viewpoint? The answer stays in
friendly fleet tracking and management system”, stated the decision of four car
Diaa El-Kiki, General Manager at Frotcom Egypt. manufacturers to show that
hydrogen is a solution for the
Nuno Liñan, Chief Marketing Officer at Frotcom International, noted that “Our present time too. One of the
partnership with Al Nozom for the creation of Frotcom Egypt is another piece objectives is to persuade
that matched our global roadmap puzzle. I can only foresee a successful politicians and others with an
interest in mobility to speed up
collaboration and we are here to support Frotcom Egypt on any matter in the
the establishment of a hydrogen
development of fleet management on the Egyptian market.”
refuelling network. The current
price of hydrogen equates to
ROADMAP welcomes Diaa El-Kiki and the Frotcom Egypt team on board around €10 per 100 km, and it
and wishes them successful operations! may be possible to reduce this to
€7 when economies of scale kick
About Egypt: Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the in, both figures falling within the
Middle East, and the 15th most populated in the world. The economy of Egypt is cost range obtained with modern
one of the most diversified in the Middle East, with sectors such as tourism, petrol and diesel engines.
agriculture, industry and services at almost equal production levels. Egypt has
Seven fuel cell vehicles built by
significant cultural, political, and military influence in the region, and is a major
Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz
power in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Muslim world.
and Toyota are undertaking the
> Capital Cairo > Population 90 million European Hydrogen Road Tour
2012. Nine European cities will be
> Currency Egyptian Pound > Territory 390,000 sq mi covered by the tour: Hamburg,
Hanover, Bolzano, Paris, Cardiff,
> Language Arabic > GDP $533.739 billion Bristol, Swindon, London and
Source:
http://www.wikipedia.org/ Copenhagen.

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Tip of the month

New features
Imposing time restrictions
Defining areas – zones and places – through the on Frotcom alarms
creation of their polygonal borders In some circumstances, it may be
In addition to circular places and zones, you can now create polygonal places useful to define time restrictions
and zones. Sometimes the use of polygonal areas is required to allow a more on Frotcom alarms. For instance,
realistic way to characterize places or zones, as in the parking lot example you may want an alarm to be valid
below. Polygonal shapes can usually adapt better to the original form of a place only until a given date.
or zone.
To define time restrictions, select
Circular Polygonal the corresponding vehicles in
Administration > Alarms and then
choose the alarm from the right
button menu.
On the bottom of the alarm
details, you have a Time
Restrictions button.

Click on the button. You will have
three possibilities to impose time
restrictions on your alarm:
Multiple area alarms are now available
The Area entrance alarm and the Area exit alarm have been changed and now
have the following characteristics:

1. You can choose Places, Zones and Regions (countries and districts) as areas.
2. You can have these alarms looking at up to 10 areas simultaneously.
For instance, you can set the Area exit alarm to be triggered when a vehicle The first thing you can do is to
exits one of 3 zones; or the Area entrance alarm to be triggered when a vehicle
specify that you only want the
enters any of 5 places.
alarm to trigger at certain
You can select between Places, Zones and Regions. moments in time. Your options
are:

The odometer is now displayed on trip tables and trip
related reports
Frotcom now shows the odometer value at the end of each trip, on the trips
table. It is also shown on trip related reports, such as the Vehicle trips report,
where the value of the odometer is shown for the start and end of every trip. You can also specify, in case you
have SMS alarms set, when they
For further information regarding these or any other aspects of Frotcom, please contact Frotcom.
are sent or not.
Frotcom - Vehicle Tracking . Fleet Intelligence Finally, you can also specify that
an alarm is to be used only until a
3 certain time or date.

Next, on Roadmap
News and events

Frotcom continues its active involvement in various News and events,
sports areas more new Frotcom features

and tips will be presented.

This and more, so don’t miss

the next issue of Roadmap.

Frotcom Macedonia has almost turned into a football player. With the freshly
registered football club, FK Borec Junior, represented by an enthusiastic team of
kids, the Frotcom partner took the opportunity of getting involved in supporting
the club in their inter-city competitions. The picture speaks for itself.
Congratulations to Frotcom Macedonia for being engaged in the community!

Krum Donchev at Mabanol Sliven Rally in Bulgaria

Roadmap Newsletter’s readers were previously introduced to one of Bulgaria’s
most successful drivers, Krum Donchev. On September 28-30, he competed in
the Mabanol Sliven Rally in Bulgaria, which is the main event of the Bulgarian
national championship and part of the European Rally Cups. Frotcom Bulgaria
was once again present at the event as a sponsor, supporter and fan!
Congratulations to Frotcom Bulgaria for being a pillar of the Bulgarian Rally!
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