Custom Icons for Sensors

alek, I'm not sure i got your point or not. Do you mean in case we have 3 sensors then we will have 3 icons for each message?
If yes, then yes you're right if we have theses parameters in all messages. but we considered that these parameters will come with some messages not all. I explained, don't think about this function like sensor color, it's different and will have different usage. With this function we want to check events that happened in unit track based on parameters we know them and created sensors based on them. something like event icons in Track menu but completely customized as user can set the event (based on sensors and their values) and icons.
The worst, if there is a sensor created from parameter that coming with all messages, then there is at least 2 options for user to prevent overcrowded map:
1. User can set icons only for his desired values/intervals on a sensor not for all values/intervals
2. User can choose which sensors should be shown on map, he can use 1 sensor or more, as he knows the logic of sensors he created and type of parameters

What you think?

alek, Again, the idea behind this is to check events, let's call it sensor based events, just like Stop, Registered Events, Fuel theft and...
It excepted to be completely customized on icon case.
Let me explain, the customer use mobile phone application (android) and this application will send different parameters with different values based on activity of user. Values of parameters, availability of parameters and combination of them have different meaning for customer. They need to see events on track with special icon for each event (for better understanding i remember you Custom Statuses in WiaTag. if you want to combine them with themselves or other parameters to define different meanings using mathematical and logical calculations)
If we want to speak about vehicles, i can give you some examples as well. just think that we have a truck and it's important for us to check when the cargo of truck is opened/closed. we just need to create a sensor to detect changes in door status from open to close or from close to open (you know better than me how we can create such sensor), this way if the truck travels around we can have it's track and icons on it when the cargo door is opened or closed. Just think that we want to have icons in same way for ACC sensor, Temperature sensor (when temperature rate changes from increasing to decreasing or opposite), Weight sensor (when status changes from loading to unloading) and for drivers when driver of truck is changed. I believe that it's very interesting to have all these events icons on Map when checking unit track in a quick view on map.
If you think you will find out that what i explained is only a simple usage for sensor icons, there will be more complex cases that will solve with this function and as you can imagine there won't be overcrowded icons on unit track (while i strongly believe that you shouldn't be worry about overcrowded icons on map, as just right now, if you have 100 units in a city and if you add them all in monitoring, in small zooms you will have overcrowded icons of units and all Wialon users experienced it but no one says that it's a big problem as user is who decide to what he want to see).
You can see that the idea is interesting in both Mobile Software and AVL Hardware cases.

PS:
Regarding overcrowded icons problem in monitoring menu i posted a topic, Please check it as well:
https://forum.gurtam.com/viewtopic.php?id=10563

alek, Thanks for your early response.

We are talking about icons for sensor based events, so if we want to have an icon library it should be a sort of icons can cover most cases. I'm thinking about some numeric icons in different colors, another idea would be to add a sort of simple icons in different colors. this way we can set each icon for a sensor but with different colors for different values. it may works, I'm not sure. It's really hard work to define a universal icon library for events that we don't have any information about them. we can't guess what is in each user mind! I'll think about and will inform you if my mind blink.
I still believe that you can offer user an option to add custom icons like icons for Units, Unit Groups and... and the worst you can define a standard for icons (size, format, aspect ratio and...).
Please don't forget that 2 important parts of idea:
1. the hover/click tool-tip on icon that should show all available values (or last known values) of parameters and sensors in that point.
2. the sensor icons excepted to use in Monitoring, Tracks and map output of Reports.

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Dear Hamed,

We haven't desided upon your request yet. Anyway, even if the answer is "yes", this will take some time to implement (several months at least).

For now, I would suggest that you creatively use combinations of existing functionality to solve this issue. For example:
• to make unit's icon on the map look different according to sensor value, use notifications and unit groups (when certain value is received from a sensor, notification triggers and unit is put into a specific group, and now its icon on the map is defined by that group; it's for real time only, not for history)
• to be able to see more sensors in the Monitoring panel, use "extended info" option and sensor color (extended info is like unit's tooltip but it's fixed, you don't need to hover all the time; and sensor color can be used in the extended info — for each of the sensors, not only for one single sensor like in the columns of the Monitoring panel)
• to make tracks more informative, again set sensor colors (if you need your track to obtain color according to a variety of sensors, use validators for this)

If you are going to try some of these things and need more information or help to make all needed configuration, please contact our technical support team at support@gurtam.com

1. This idea might be interesting, and we'll store it for future.

2. Event is registered through notification, isn't it? So, choose %ALL_SENSORS% parameter for the notification text, and you'll have all sensor values in the tooltip.

alek wrote:

Any update regarding this case?

This theme is not supported by other members on the forum, as we see. Also, we never heard about it from other partners. Taking into account the difficulties of integration such function, we are not ready to approve the idea of sensors icons now.

mars, thank you first.

It seems good idea.

What you explained is good. What we proposed is not to show all sensor values in unit track. After discussions with GT we reached to this point that we can have a trigger for some sensors to display them on track if specific condition occurred. The idea was about points (messages) on which sensor state changed (and accordingly sensor icon should change). In this case there is no overcrowded map. As, right now we have some icons on map (fuel filling, fuel theft, parking etc) that we can activate them or deactivate them.
Another way I'm thinking about for implementing this idea is to put icons in messages tool-tip while user hover on messages over tracks.

3 sensors seems enough (we can set these 3 from Unit properties) and each sensor should have different icons for different values (like colors).