Binding Geofence to units

tata, have you planned for that?

Dear mapa,

Let me give you a real case. We have a customer with hundreds of vehicles. Each vehicle has its own zone for each day of week. This means each vehicle has a zone for Sat, Sun, Mon etc. This customer wants to execute a report for whole fleet and knows when the vehicle entered its geofence and when left it and also get other related data. With current features it would be only possible to create a report for each vehicle per day (and set time limitations based on days of week), means if we have 500 vehicles and any vehicle works 7 days we need 3500 reports! If we can bind each unit to only 7 geofence then we can create only 7 units group reports (for each day of week) and Wialon will check which geofence is binded to which unit and only shows related data. And these 7 reports are reports on units groups with geofence table.

We can say that when we create a report (units groups report) we choose an option to consider binded geonfence to each unit. Consider that these zones have intersections in most cases. Consider we have the A unit, now, if we execute report on whole fleet and check all geofences (for Sat as example) then we receive entrances and exits to/from many geofences which are not related to zone of unit A, same for other hundreds units.

Still Isn't clear ? Let's take a look at attached image. I guess elements in images are clear. Now let's think that a company has 2 units, A and B, and also has 2 geofence each one related to one of those units. We create group of units A and B and call it The Group. Now we execute a geofence report on The Group. In results we have information about what happened for unit A inside geofence of unit B (that is not useful or important for us) and also what happened for unit B inside geofence of unit A (that is not useful or important for us). Now consider that we have 500 vehicles and 3500 geofences, lots of usefulness information will be reflected on report results.
It's logical to create 7 reports and set time limitation based on days of week. But still we will have 500 units and 500 geofences for each day (or better to say for each report template) with lots of usefulness and messy information in report result.

With Binding Geofences to Units we are going to solve this big problem.

mapa, thank you for your patience in reading my long posts.

First:

I just shared this for better understanding of situation. This problem is easy to solve as we can use time limitation feature in report template and create a report template for each day of week. Seven report template is acceptable.

Big factories that distribute their products themselves, they have hundreds of vehicles and has set something like this:

Zones for truck A:
Sa >>> Zones 1, 2,3
Su >>> Zones 4,5,6
Mo >>> Zones 7,8,9,1,2,3
Tu >>> Zones 10,11,12,4,5,6
We >>> Zones 13,14,15
Th >>> Zones 16,17,18,4,5,6
Fr >>> Zones 19,20,21

They have set these zones for each vehicle as they know how much goods they should deliver to each zone because they have customers or warehouses there.

They have all these geofences for whole country in their sales software and we can import them.

Creating even 3500 report templates is not hard for us but executing 500 of them each day is not acceptable for customer. Adding more than one table won't work. We are going to create a report template on Units Group with hundreds of units. Let's think we are creating this report template only for Sat, so we use time limitation and set it to Sat only for each table. Now you tell me how we should add tables to this report template to reach what we need? Consider we want to add Geofence table 500 times in this report template, which option or feature will cause reaching the result we are talking about?

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