Frotcom Web - Release notes - 2024

The following list shows the most recent features implemented in Frotcom Web.

2024-12-02

Frotcom Web with Multifactor authentication: Multifactor authentication (MFA) with a Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) is now available on Frotcom Web to increase the security against possible compromised credentials.
MFA will require a second authentication method through something the user owns, which, in this case, is the smartphone. It will be optional for the user in three different levels:

• No MFA;
• MFA is required when the IP is different from the last login;
• MFA is always required.

You can find more information regarding Service Requirements and automatic alarms in this article.

2024-11-29

Integration with RIO platform: With this integration, you can see vehicles from the RIO platform into Frotcom with the following data:

• Position/Speed/Time (PVT);
• Ignition status;
• Direction;
• Odometer;
• Elevation.

Please note that this service has a monthly fee per vehicle. Contact us for more information.

2024-11-26

• New API endpoint for retrieving tire pressure and temperature data for all vehicles in a fleet.
• Includes additional sensor data such as door sensors and temperature sensors.

2024-11-16

External feed icon in the Vehicle list: A new icon is available in the Vehicle list to identify the External Feed Vehicles and External Feed Assets in the account:

Tracking information in Administration > Vehicle: A new column (Tracking) is available in Administration > Vehicles to help you to identify the vehicles or assets with External Feed service:

2024-11-14

• New Filter Criterion: Added "Tracking Type" as a filter option in the vehicle filters.

• Tracking Type Options: Users can select from options including Vehicle with GPS, Asset with GPS, Vehicle without GPS, Asset without GPS, External feed vehicle, and External feed asset.

• Default Setting: No tracking type selected by default, which includes all vehicles.

2024-11-08

Triggering DTC Alarm when a new entry is registered in the Vehicle Maintenance: Whenever a new Diagnostic Trouble Code is registered in the Vehicle Maintenance module, a new instance of the DTC Alarm is triggered for the Vehicle.

Abrupt Speed Change Alarm: A new alarm that detects abrupt changes in the speed of Vehicles (with Detailed Tracking) in a pre-determined timeframe.

2024-11-06

Service Requirements With the OBD2 service activated (only C4OBD v8, available soon), you can see Service requirements information in addition to DTCs.

• Vehicle Maintenance
  • Distance and Service Expected date using AVG Mileage/Day (last 30 days average mileage),
  • Next service (month/year)
• Engine oil maintenance
  • Distance and Service Expected date using AVG Mileage/Day (last 30 days average mileage),
  • Next service (month/year)
• Brake Maintenance (These dates may present excessive values until the vehicle detects brake usage)
  • Front brake distance and Service Expected date using AVG Mileage/Day (last 30 days average mileage),
  • Rear brake distance and Service Expected date using AVG Mileage/Day (last 30 days average mileage).
• Brake fluid Maintenance
  • Service Expected date (month/year)

Automatic Alarms Based on Service Requirements

Information received from the vehicle related to vehicle maintenance, engine oil, brake, and rear brakes, as well as brake fluid, creates automatic appointment alarms.

You can find more information regarding Service Requirements and automatic alarms in this article.

2024-10-21

Accumulated Alarms supporting multiple Definitions: In the Accumulated alarm's definition, it's now possible to select more than one Alarm definition to be accounted for the alarm:

2024-09-26

• Introduced new cluster icons for vehicles and places.
• Added functionality to display a list of vehicles or places within a cluster when hovering over the cluster icon.
• Implemented the ability to select an item from the list, which zooms in on the item and opens its detail info box.
• Redesigned cluster behavior to enhance user interaction and map navigation.

2024-09-19

New Toll Costs Rules for Germany

• New Parameters: Added Engine Emission Type (Euro 6) and CO2 Emission Class for toll calculation in Germany.

• CO2 Surcharge: Updated toll rates to include a CO2 emission-based surcharge for Euro 6 vehicles.

• Vehicle Profiles: Users can select the CO2 class for Euro 6 engines in vehicle profiles for route and nearest vehicle calculations.

For more information go here

2024-09-11

External Feed Assets in the Fuel level alarm: You can now select External Feed Assets (used for Inbound integrations with Schmitz) in the configuration of Fuel Level alarms:

2024-09-10

Trip consumption for all types of vehicles: In the trips' details on Bottom Panel > Trips > Trip details or in the Trips menu, you can see your vehicle trips' consumptions with the correct energy units:

You can find more information in this article.

2024-08-12

Forms Builder in Frotcom Web: Up until now, only FCP users could build and edit Forms using the Forms Builder section of the Intranet. To give more autonomy to end customers, the tool is now available for you on Frotcom Web:

Working day and rest duration alarm: The new Working day and Rest duration alarm notifies the Fleet Managers about driving conditions (working day and rest periods) that do not meet the company's criteria:

You can find more information regarding this and other alarms in this article.

2024-08-06

Frotcom AI Chatbot: Artificial Intelligence (AI) ChatBot that answers users questions, on your language, on how to use Frotcom, based on the information available in the Help Center.
This is the first feature of Frotcom based on AI algorithms and it is the basis for further studies that are ongoing.

You can find more information regarding this and other alarms in this article.

2024-08-01

Streamlined Driver Compliance Tracking with Last Tachograph Driver ID Display

In the Administration > Tachographs > Drivers section, a new column displaying the last Tachograph Driver ID Date has been added. This Date reflects the last time Frotcom read the tachograph driver ID, formatted according to Frotcom’s date and time standards, and displayed up to the minute for optimized data management. The new column will also be included in CSV exports.

Enhanced Graphs in Bottom Panel

• Expanded the selection of graphs available in the bottom panel.
• Improved performance and responsiveness of the graphs.
• Enhanced data visualization options.
• Streamlined application by removing outdated components.

2024-07-18

Extended trip report - Summarized by period or day:

This two new Extended trips report views with additional Driver productivity metrics on a daily or periodic basis, such as:

• Driving or Idling percentage,
• Mileage,
• Maximum,
• Mean speed,
• Number of trips,
• Number of days with trips. 

Extended trip report - Summarized by day

Extended trip report - Summarized by period

You can check the details in this section.

Version 120652EB solves vulnerability on file uploads.

2024-07-04

Schmitz Cargobull trailers: As of now, you can see on Schmitz trailers additional information, whenever it is available for your trailers:

• Speed;
• Manufacturer and model;
• CANBus odometer;
• Weight;
• Setpoints;
• Fuel level (percentage and liters);
• Tire pressures and temperatures;
• Battery voltage.

You can check the details in this section.

2024-06-26

Management > Energy: As of now, you can choose the type of energy and see the different consumption of your vehicles: 

• Internal combustion vehicles:
  • All; (Default)
  • Diesel;
  • Gas/Petrol;
  • Other.

• Electric vehicles
• Natural gas vehicles:
  • All
  • CNG;
  • LNG;
  • RNG;
  • Other.

You can check the details of each report in this section.

2024-06-25

Reports with consumption information: Reports show the different types of energy and your vehicles' grouped by their type of energy: Internal combustion, Energy, or Natural gas, and their consumption information with the correct calculations and units:

• L or G,
• KWH or
• KG.

Reports with consumption units and grouped by energy consumption updated were:

• Fuel management report,
• CANBus details report,
• Extended trips report,
• Extended trips with CANBus report,
• Driving behavior report. 

You can check the details of each report in this article.

Vehicles using Natural Gas as energy: You can now configure vehicles with Natural Gas: CNG (Compress natural gas), LNG (Liquefied natural gas), RNG (Renewable natural gas), or Other energy type in the Vehicle details > Management section: 

These vehicles show the correct unit kg, kg/100 km, kg/h on their consumptions on Frotcom Web:

In addition to that, you can see the vehicles' consumption (with the respective energy units) in the following places:

• Vehicle list > Natural gas in the tank: You can see the Natural gas in the tank (Green/Yellow/Red icons next to the Vehicle - with details on the mouse-over);
• Vehicle Infobox > Other information: Several new fields are available in the infobox;
• Refueling events: Location and refueling information on the Map;
• Natural gas graph: Natural gas graph available.

2024-06-20

Version AFF84624 solves two security vulnerabilities on legacy reports:

1. URL app.frotcom.com now forces HTTPS;
2. Export to Excel through Excel Web Query (IQY) is now protected to only accept legitimate Frotcom URLs.

2024-06-04

New login page: Frotcom's login page has been revamped and now contains not only the area for you to add your credentials but also a set of highlights displaying the latest features added to Frotcom Web:

With this improvement, the access to Frotcom's Next environment was removed. As of now, all the upcoming new features will be added straight to the production environment.

You can check the details about the login page in this article.

What's new: This new page is where you can find the Upcoming and Recently released features on Frotcom Web:

This article will give you more details about the What's new page.

2024-05-28

Days left to return vehicle to country of origin Alarm (Mobility Package): This new alarm can be used to notify you when vehicles must be returned to the specified country and period. It uses the Vehicles' Establishment Country, together with the parameters in the alarm's configuration, to detect when the vehicles must be returned to their specified Country:

This feature comes along with the latest Mobility Package rules.

Import Routes Schedules - Send to Driver app: You can now use the Import Route Schedules routine, either via the Excel file or the APIv2 endpoint, to send the Routes to a Driver app terminal (in addition to WFM and NAV terminals):

More information about this feature can be found in this article.

Permission to the Apps menu: Up until now, the permission to the Apps menu was manually controlled by a setting in the DB, which would force all the users of a company to have the same permission. With this latest addition, you can now control which companies and users have access to the menu with the new permission General Features > Apps:

Waste Collection Management System: This brand new module of Frotcom Web is an area where you can check, review, and generate reports with information regarding Bin IDs (RFID tags), Bin types and Weight collected from trucks during waste collection operations:

You may check more information regarding this module in this article.

Use traffic information for ETA: As of now, you can use the option Use traffic information to consider the traffic on the road in the calculation of Directions and Nearest vehicles:

When this option is enabled, traffic information will be considered in direction calculations, thus providing greater assertiveness in ETA calculations.

Improvements in the Coupling information: A few improvements regarding Coupling operations were implemented:

• You can now see coupling information from operations that happened before the selected period (if available) in the bottom panel;
• A tooltip with details about the coupled vehicle/asset is available in the Vehicle list;

Daily Summary Report - Show the weekdays: As of now, you can choose how you'd like to see the Weekdays in the Daily Summary Report - as Columns or as Rows in the report:

If you export the report to an Excel file, the format of the report will also be respected and printed accordingly:

Maximum Engine Speed available on the Engine Speed Graph: As of now, you can see the Maximum Engine Speed, which is used to trigger Driving Behavior Events, in the Engine Speed Graph:

Both Average Engine Speed and Max Engine Speed can be selected together in the Graph, and you can change the selection to adjust the graph to your needs.

TPMS Graphs (Temperature and Pressure): The new TPMS Graphs (TPMS Temperature and TPMS Pressure) are now available for vehicles with a Tire Pressure Measurement System configured.

These graphs show the evolution of temperature and pressure for all the vehicle tires:

You can interact with the graphs by selecting only the tires you'd like to track from the graphs. Also, you may use the TPMS graph, which combines both Temperature and Pressure into one single graph.

You can check this article to learn more about the graphs.

Working day not started alarm: This new alarm allows you to specify the exact hour when the working day should start and, if there are vehicles that didn’t start after that hour, the alarm is triggered to warn you of the situation:

To create a new instance of this alarm, you should configure the following definitions:

• Working day expected start: Start of the working day;
• Ignore activities shorter than: If you opt to use this parameter, the first activity of the day must be kept for X minutes to be considered as the start of the working day;
• Use TCO driver state: If you select this option, the alarm will control the start of a daily activity based on the TCO driver states (i.e., the states Drive, Work, and Available will trigger the start of the day). Otherwise, the alarm will use the Ignition state instead.

Max. Engine speed (RPM) in the Driving behavior events report: As of now, when you generate a Driving behavior events report, you will see the column Maximum Engine Speed (RPM) available in the report

Also, the columns Value and m/s2 are now combined into one single column (Acceleration m/s2).

Send Routes (Jobs) to Driver app: Up until now, when you assigned a route to a vehicle, you could send it to a WFM or NAV terminal. However, didn't give you the option to send the Route (as a Job) to the Driver app.

With this latest release, you will be able to assign Routes to Vehicles and send them (as Jobs) to the Driver app:

In addition to that, the rules applied over which vehicles can receive Jobs have been updated:

• Driver app: The account must have the permission to use Jobs;
• WFM app: Each vehicle must have a WFM terminal configured with the version superior to 1.0.1226.7;
• NAV: Each vehicle must have a NAV terminal configured. If using Enforce Path, it must have the protocol A614; If using Destination only, it must have the protocol A603 or A618.

Trigger delay in seconds for Local Speed alarms: As of now, you can create new Local Speed alarm definitions and configure their Trigger delay in seconds (instead of minutes) in the Time Restrictions section:

TPMS Alarm - Tire numbering scheme update: The current numbering scheme for the TPMS module is based on inspection tires. As this is not a globally known scheme by Drivers and Fleet Managers, we are updating the numbering scheme to be more adequate for the inspections of the tires.

This improvement was made to Frotcom Web and the Driver and Fleet Manager apps (Android and iOS versions).

Adjustments in the Temperature report: A new set of improvements was made to the Temperature report to avoid misunderstandings and display the correct information.

With this version, the exported Excel file now displays the headers according to the generated report.

Battery level for Teltonika BLE EyeSensor/EyeBeacon: In the Vehicles list, for vehicles equipped with Teltonika BLE EyeSensor and EyeBeacon, you can now see the Battery level according to their BLE technology (Temperature, Door sensor, or Trailer ID):

The levels/colors of the battery icons follow the rules below:

Improvement in the Activation of Area Entrance and Area Exit alarms report: As of now, the column Stay Duration of the report is calculated according to the report's selected period:

Tachograph's One-Minute Rule activated by default: The One-Minute Rule was implemented for all Tachographs sold after October 2011. As this option was Disabled by default, customers could forget to activate it.

With this latest version, the One-Minute Rule is Enabled by default for new vehicles:

Optimization of Import Cost Files: Currently, when you Import Cost Files, the operation may fail if there are too many entries in the file. This occurs due to validations done with the Odometer, which makes the operation slower.
To overcome this limitation, you now have the option to Optimize import. If selected, the validations done to the Odometer won't be carried out, making the process faster and avoiding timeouts:

Improvements in the Temperature report: A new set of improvements was made to the Temperature report to avoid misunderstandings and display the correct information.
These improvements include:

• New option: Only vehicle sensors;
• Split the Place column into two: Place and Address;
• Selection of the fields to be included in the report.

Vehicle Maintenance - Icon in the Vehicle list: As of now, you will see an indicator icon next to vehicles with reported DTCs in the Vehicle list:

Timestamp for Fuel and Charging events: You can now see the timestamp of Fuel events (Refueling and Drainage), as well as the Recharging events (for Electric Vehicles) in the respective infoboxes in the Map view:

To show/hide these events on the Map, you must select the respective options in the Hamburger menu > Map Settings > Vehicle:

Improvements in the Temperature report: The temperature report was improved to avoid misunderstandings and display the correct information.
These improvements are:

• The column Ignition was removed from the Report, and the column On Trip is available instead (to avoid misunderstandings);
• A new option is available in the report's configuration, Reefer engine status, that allows you to select a Digital Input that represents this status;
• Show the Country and District instead of the Place Name when the latter is unavailable (because the temperature reading is out of Place). If you click on the Country-District, a new window with Google Maps pinned at the correct location will be opened.

Driver ID feature working automatically with Immobilizer: As of now, whenever you try to activate/deactivate the Immobilizer for Teltonika devices for a vehicle in which the Driver ID was configured to be used with Immobilizer, the following warning message is displayed:

"This vehicle is configured to control the immobilizer through the driver identification. Thus, it is not possible to control it remotely.

Please contact your Frotcom Certified Partner for more information."