Binding truck with a trailer

The easy and cheap way: have an IBUTON somewhere on the trailer and when you connect trailer with truck connect also the 1wire cables.
But this needs mechanical skills, more complicated cables etc.

you can also use active rfid tags as "ibuttons". Than you need a tracker with active RFID receiver and a active rfid tag.

2nd gps tracker in trailer is expensive! (not only for licence fees but also for traffic, HW etc)

I would always use active RFID tags and Ibutton protocoll.

Wolf.

Let me know if you find a solution as we have a similar problem. Truck and Trailer have GPS devices and i want to be able to pair them when they are connected. At the moment this is not possible from what I can see.

Hi Road-Link,

Dynafleet does have an API, but it's only available against a fee.

You could trigger an event, from the Ruptela Devices (IN1, IN2; ...) If The EBS-Modul gets powered (as soon as someone plugs in the ABS-Cable this module will have power.

Then query the Dynafleet API with the GPS-Coordinates from your Ruptela Devices. This can be done relative straightforward with the notification feature of Wialon.

This would however mean that you need some external program which receives the Notification, connects to the Dynafleet API, and connects to the Wialon API to register the Trailer with a "trailer" Since you do not have the Tractors in Wialon. Or The dynafleet API lets you register a trailer.

Definitly a thing which would work, depends on the pricing and Availability of the Dynafleet API.

so far,
axpdreamer

P.s.: Does your Ruptela TCO implementation work as expected?

Hi axpdreamer

Thank you for your answer and good idea about Dynafleet API.

Anyway, we didn't find any solutions with Ruptela.

At the moment, we are making a test in real conditions with a FM1125 from Teltonika and a RFID box and tags build by a french company..

Even if this solution need an hour minimum to install, the result seems to be OK.

I have also tried the new device from Cellocator (Nano 20) but the device and its peripherals are not strong enough to support the transport conditions.

Have a nice day

Xavier