WiaTag questions / enhancements

Good day.
Our answers on your questions:

1) WiaTag on iOS using location service always. Because of operating system restrictions, we can't disable it in background mode (application well be killed by system). Location service can switched programmatically by collect positional data with GPS reciever (A-mode: high battery consumption mode, high accuracy) or with Cellular broadband networks (B-mode: low battery consumption mode, but low accuracy). Option for collecting data by timeout work as follow: we enabling GPS only for getting first message with A-mode, and then we shutdown GPS, and move location service in B-mode, and waiting again for timer. Example: 20 sec in A-mode -> 4 min 40 sec in B-mode and etc. This is some kind of trick, do not pay attention for symbol of location service in status bar.

2) This is cannot be done, because of iOS restrictions. When you kill the app in task manager, after that iOS don't know anything about app (all application processes and services stopped immediately), until user start application again via springboard tap.

3) This is possible but needs refinement. But in case when internet connection not available, these messages will not be sent (status is sent to the server immediately).

4) This is possible, for some count of settings, but not all, because of barcode data limit. But in next releases we will add to iOS version of WiaTag remote control feature, that will allow upload configuration file from Wialon web hosting to WiaTag device remotely.

Dmitry
Developer at Gurtam.

Dmitry,

after talking with other partners in minsk, there would be realy the need of some kind of easy configuration of the WiaTag.

the "easiest" way would be:
- let Admin create on a "app in wialon" create a new Wiatag object with predefined configuration and create a pdf file with a 2d barcode or so (qr-code)
- send pdf to customer, he prints it out and scan it with the WiaTag app (or he scan it from screen or so)

that would be cool!

It should be configurable to set custom switches and kind of tracking / times of tracking and the device id / password.

what do you think?

Wolf.

Dmitry,

i am intensively playing around with WiaTag and still have following problem:

- i set the device to send every 3 Minutes, i disabled all other kind of superclever dupidupi algorithm.

What device does is: If i am in the night sleeping it sends every hour,
If i drive it sends up to 10 messages per minute.

So its absolutely not that what i expect if i set it to "send every 3 minutes"

the second problem (or active request of a customer) is, that with this behaviour i can not use number of messages as a detection if units is active or if process is disabled.

so we need something (as already written in a support request) that actively send a status message if software was startet AND if the switch "active" or "non actice" was switched.
otherwise (and i think our customer is right in that) its impossible to check if employer is always switching it off!

Any ideas?

Thanks

Wolf.