Common use cases
A place is an area that you mark on the map and want to monitor.
You can use places to see where machines are located, when they arrive in an area, or when they leave the area.
What you can do with Places
What types of places are there?
There are three types of places:
Worksite
Use Worksite for areas where machines are used for work.
Here you can see:
how many machines are at the place
when they arrived or left
Depot
Use Depot for places where machines and vehicles are stored or maintained.
In Machines, you get an overview of:
how many machines belong to the depot
how many of them are in the depot right now
the total number of machines that have been in the depot
when machines arrive at or leave the depot
Region
Use Region for a larger area where machines can be located.
More information is coming.
What information does a place include?
All places have:
name
start date
geographic location
option to add an end date
tags
description
Place alerts
You can set up alerts that notify you when a machine enters or leaves a place.
You can add alerts:
when you create the place
later from the alerts page