Frotcom Web - Release notes - 2023

The following list shows the most recent features implemented in Frotcom

2023-10-17

Vehicle Maintenance: Vehicle Maintenance is a new module, available in the Summary menu, where you can find information about the DTCs (Diagnostic Trouble Codes) collected from your vehicles:

You can find more details regarding this feature in this article.

Option to send messages as Office or Frotcom user: As of now, you can select the Sender (either the Office or your Frotcom User) of the Interact messages sent to the Drivers:

This option is available whenever you send a new message, or reply to any messages.

Allow the use of two consecutive Reduced Weekly Rest periods: Drivers engaged in international transport of goods may, outside the Member State of establishment, take two consecutive Reduced Weekly Rest periods provided that the driver in any four consecutive weeks takes at least four weekly rest periods, of which at least two shall be regular weekly rest periods.
Reduced Weekly Rest periods must be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken before the end of the third week following the week in question.

To allow the use of two consecutive Reduced Weekly Rest periods, you must activate the option in Administration > Account > Driving conditions:

You must also configure the Establishment country of the account (in Administration > Account > Profile), as well as for the Drivers (in Administration > Drivers > Professional):

Energy consumption for Electric vehicles: Similar to the TFU (Total Fuel Used), Frotcom can now save and calculate the Energy consumption of Electric vehicles. With this addition to Frotcom Web, you will have access to:

• Calculation of Total Energy Used;
• Recharging information on the Map;
• Average Energy Consumption in the Infobox > Other Information
• Battery charge graph

Show the reason for Abandoned Routes: Currently, Frotcom Users don't have access to the reason a route was abandoned. With this new development, you will be able to check the reasons behind an abandoned route in the following areas of Frotcom Web:

• New column Abandoned Reason on Route> Assigned Routes > Table view
• Label informing the reason for abandoning the route on Route > Assigned Routes > Linear view
• Tooltip with the reason for abandoning the route when hovering over the Route' status
• Label informing the reason for abandoning the route on the Map > Bottom panel

Improvement in the Trafic layer of the Map: The Traffic Layer of the Map has been updated to use traffic information provided by HERE Maps:

You can activate the Traffic layer by selection Show Traffic under the Hamburger menu of the Map.

Note that this option is only available for accounts using HERE Maps, and with permission to see the Traffic information.

Delete Tachograph Company cards: A new option is available, in Administration > Tachograph > Company cards, for you to delete Company cards:

It is not necessary to make any changes in the CardReaderApp after deleting company cards.

Proper auditing of failed logins: The messages displayed whenever a login is denied by Frotcom (by failed login attempts, expiry date, or unauthorized IP) have been revamped, and now display a clearer message for the user with the reason for the failed login:

2023-07-24

Support for Multiple trailers: As of now, vehicles can support Coupling and Uncoupling operations for up to 5 assets simultaneously.

With this improvement, the following areas in Frotcom were adjusted:

• Coupling and Uncoupling of up to 5 assets to the same vehicle are now supported;
• Coupling and Uncoupling information available in Bottom Panel > Coupling, Vehicle list, Vehicle marker, Vehicle infobox, and Summary > Activity today;
• New icons for Semi-trailer, Dollies, and Containers available;
• You can now manually Couple and Uncouple assets that are selected for Automatic Coupling and Uncoupling operations (except BLE assets);
• Automatic Coupling and Uncoupling rules updated;
• Coupling and Uncoupling report updated;
• New Coupling and Uncoupling alarm available;

You can find more details in this article.

Driving times update - Use Night work restriction: It's now possible for you to configure Night work restrictions for your account, enabling some options and visualization for the vehicles that can operate under such restrictions:

You can configure Night Work restrictions in the Administration > Account > Driving conditions > Driving time restrictions section.

Electronic Logbook - Print Logbook details: You can now generate and download a printable .pdf file with the details of a driver's Logbook:

This option can be found under the Hamburger menu at the top-right corner.

Tachograph Remote Download - New Periodicities: As of now, in addition to the currently available periodicities, you can configure the Tachograph Remote Download to be executed on a specific day of the month (for Tachograph files) and on a specific weekday (for Driver files):

Adjustment in the Driving time limits alarm: Currently, when you choose Use GPS Tracking in the configuration of a Driving time limits alarm, you must configure two parameters: Maximum continuous driving time and Maximum daily driving time.

With this development, you're now able to configure the alarm with only one of the parameters above, while the other can be set as 00:00:

Google Maps with costs for Directions/Nearest vehicles: As of now, you can retrieve the costs (vehicle, driver, and total costs) when calculating Directions and Nearest vehicles with Google Maps as your map provider:

In addition to that, a new Vehicle class (Electric car) is available for you to set up your vehicles.

Performance improvements: Several performance improvements focused on the Interact module were implemented and are available as of now for you.

Shorter default periods for larger fleets: Users with large fleets can take considerable time to access some pages due to a larger amount of data.

With this new option activated, available in Administration > Accounts > General, the following features will use the default period Today to avoid unnecessary data to be loaded:

• Alarms screens
• Management > Fuel,
• Management > Fleet
• Management > Costs
• Jobs > History
• Interact
• Interact > Forms
• Driving behavior Simplified and detailed

Exports to Excel in the correct format: The following reports have been updated to correct the format of the data exported in the Excel file:

• Activation of area entrance and area exit alarms
• Alarms
• CANBus - Driver work states
• CANBus Details report
• CO2 Emissions
• Daily summary
• Driving behavior events
• Driving behavior
• Extended trips
• Extended trips with CANBus
• Fuel management
• Logins
• Permanence in Places
• Subsistence Allowance
• Traffic by area (IFTA in USA)
• Vehicle status
• Vehicle stops
• Visits to Places

Automatic coupling using Teltonika BLE: The Automatic Coupling/Uncoupling Based On Trailer ID feature now also supports Teltonika BLE devices (BLE EyeBeacons/EyeSensors).

As of now, when you configure automatic coupling based on BLE, you will be able to see and select Vehicles and Assets equipped with Teltonika BLE devices:

In addition to that, assets without GPS equipped with Eye sensor can now be chosen for Temperature alarms and Temperature graphs.

Battery level for Trailer ID: Assets configured with a Trailer ID (BLE) will now display their battery status in the Vehicle list whenever the selected period is Now:

The color of the icons change according to the level of battery:

• Between 100% and 70%: Green;
• Between 65% and 35%: Yellow;
• Between 30% and 0%: Red.

Important: This feature is not yet available for Teltonika BLE devices.

Trailer ID battery level alarm: The new Trailer ID battery level alarm can be used to be notified about low battery levels in the Trailer ID devices:

To create a new alarm, you only need to define the level of battery which will trigger the alarm (i.e., when the sensor's battery level drops below the defined value, the alarm will be triggered) in the Definitions tab.

Important: This feature is not yet available for Teltonika BLE devices.

Adjustments in the End of the period (Visit to Places report): Currently, when a vehicle is still in a Place, the information presented in the Departure time column of the Visit to Places report is stated in the future. 

To ensure the correct behavior of this report, the following adjustments were implemented:

• If the period includes the report generation time, the field Departure shows "-" instead of 23:59;
• If the period includes the report generation time, the field Stay during working hours, Stay outside working hours, and Total stay in place are calculated with the time the report was generated (instead of 23:59).

Export multiple vehicles/asset's QR Codes: You now have the option to generate and download multiple QR codes for Vehicles and Assets at once.

To do so, you must first select the option Edit multiple in Administration > Vehicles and then select your vehicles:

Now, if you click on Next, you will be able to click on the Generate QR code button. In the popup, you can click on Download all to download all QR codes (as .png images) in a single .zip file:

Reorder Tasks after Route optimization: As of now, whenever you generate a Route based on the Tasks of a Job with the option Optimize sequence selected, the list of Tasks will be reordered following the optimization of the Route:

Please have a look at this article for more details about generating a route from the Job information.

Tachograph driving and working hours report revamp: Revamp the Tachograph driving and working hours report, to implement a new layout and to optimize the data to avoid timeouts when generating the report:

Improvement in the Driver diary report: The Drivers diary report (without authorities format) has been improved to include the following new columns:

• Multi-manning
• Co-driver
• Working day <13h
• Working day >=13h<15h
• Working day>=15h<21h
• Working day>=21h
• Available
• Total hours of daily rest
• Total hours of weekly rest

Important: Multi-manning and Co-driver data is only available as of February 24th. If you generate this report with a period prior to it, a dash (-) will be placed in those columns instead.

Improvement in the Communication problems alarm: The Communication problems alarm was improved to accept two periods for the configuration:

1. Time to trigger alarm when the last ignition received was On;
2. Time to trigger alarm when the last ignition received was Off.

These new configuration options can be used, for instance, to be more accurate when a vehicle has its ignition turned off or when devices enter sleep mode.

New version of the CardReaderApp: A new version of the CardReaderApp is available for download.

You can check this article for the instructions to download and install the latest version of the app.

Excessive fuel consumption alarm: This new alarm gives you a way to be informed, at the end of a period, about the vehicles with Excessive Fuel Consumption, in order to identify inefficiencies and decrease the costs of the operations:

To create a new alarm, the following definitions are needed:

• Average consumption: The maximum average fuel consumption for the selected vehicles, above which the alarm will be triggered. You must first select the calculation mode (Per Mileage or Per Hour), and then enter the maximum average fuel consumption.
• Period: The period this alarm will use as reference for the calculation of the average fuel consumption. Options:
  • Daily: Alarm is triggered daily at 00:00 using the past day as reference;
  • Weekly: Alarm is triggered every Monday at 00:00 using the period between Monday and Sunday from the past week as reference;
  • Monthly: Alarm is triggered every first day of the month at 00:00 using the past month as reference.

Increased number of Temperature inputs: As of now, we have increased the number of Temperature inputs available per vehicles (from 3 to 10). This change allows companies using data extracted from temperature loggers/sensors to have an overview of all temperature sensors available for their vehicles in the following modules of Frotcom Web:

• Graphs:
  
• Alarms:
  
• Reports:
  

Advanced Dashboards revamp: The layout/UX of all the available Advanced Dashboards have been revised to make them more attractive, desirable, and with a more up-to-date appearance:

The data available in the Advanced Dashboards remain the same, with the updated UX.

You can find more details about the Advanced Dashboards in this article.

Activation of Area Entrance and Area Exit alarms report: This new report lists, chronologically, the activations of Area Entrance and Area Exit alarms for the selected Vehicles and Areas.

The alarms are used to determine the time the vehicles were inside those areas. Since the alarms use Detailed tracking data, the time provided by this report is accurate to 2 seconds.

To generate the report, you must provide the following information:

• Period: The period the report will be generated for
• Vehicles: Multi-selector for the vehicles in the account
• Show information by: Here you must choose if the report will be generated for Places or Zones
• Show places of: Here you can select the Departments and Segments the selected Places must be part of
• Area entrance alarm/Area exit alarm: You must select one Area entrance and one Area exit alarm definition (already created for the account) as the parameters for the report
• Places/Zones: This multi-selector (only available once both Area entrance alarm and Area exit alarm are selected) contains all the Places or Zones that are selected in both Area exit and Area entrance alarms.

Show the sent date/time of Forms in Interact: You can now see the date and time the forms were sent by the drivers in the Interact module:

To activate this option, you must select Show the sent date/time of Forms in Administration > Account > Forms:

New features available in the Advanced Dashboard - Driver Coaching: The Advanced Dashboard for Driver Coaching now includes the following new features:

1. Vehicle characteristics;
2. Drivers in the period;
3. Assets in the period;
4. Inertia and Ecoroll;
5. Other;
6. Driving score;
7. Export to Excel;

Improved Daily Summary report: The Daily Summary report has been reworked, and this new version of the report, integrated into our new structure of Reports, debuts a revamp in the layout, as well as data optimization to avoid timeouts when generating the report:

New columns in Administration > Drivers: Two new columns related to the usage of the Driver app (Driver app Username and Driver app Last action) were added to the list of drivers in Administration > Drivers:

Place boundaries visible on the Map: This new option in the Map settings allows the Places' boundaries to be visible on the Map.

To do so, you must find and select the option Show place boundaries on Map in Map settings > Places, and then select the Places that will be visible on the Map using the Places selector.

After that, the boundaries of the Places (both circles and polygons) will be visible on the Map, with the same color as their Place types (configurable in Administration > Areas > Hamburger menu > Place settings):

New options in the Fuel Management report: Three new optional configurations were added to the Fuel Management report:

• Include Chronometer: Use this option to include or not the Chronometer in the report;
• Include Engine hours: Use this option to include or not the Engine hours in the report;
• One row per day: With this option, the report will separate the data of the Detailed version of the report per day (one day per row)

Generate QR Code button: This new option in the Administration > Vehicles allows you to generate and print a QR Code image containing the vehicle's License Plate:

Once you click on the Generate QR code button, a popup with the image will be available for you. Click on the Download button to download the image to your computer:

The printout can be placed as a label inside each vehicle, and can be used to allow Drivers to change their Vehicles and Assets using their Driver app.

Integration with Continental's TPMS - ContiPressureCheck: The newest TPMS module in Frotcom allows you to define TPMS models (i.e., the tires settings) for your vehicles, that later can be used as parameter for the new Tires alarm.

To select a TPMS model for a vehicle, you must select the vehicle in Administration > Vehicles - Details and select the TPMS tab:

Once you have vehicles configured with the TPMS models, you can set up Tires alarms to detect problems in the tires, such as Fast/Slow leaking, Low battery, Temperature below/above, and Pressure below/above:

Please contact your Frotcom Certified Partner if you'd like to use the TPMS solutions for your fleet.