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The OBD II plugs directly into the vehicle’s on-board diagnostics port.  A Smartrak authorised installer is not required to do this, however we do recommend that someone suitably familiar with the vehicle’s diagnostic system carries out the installation.

Connecting the device to the vehicle:

• Find OBD II connector in your vehicle (Figure 10. Most common OBDII connector locations.).
• Before connecting the device to the OBD II socket, make sure that ≥3A fuse is present on OBD connector power supply

The Remora has two modes of operation, stationary and trip mode. When in stationary mode the Remora will send a position update to the map once every 12 hours. When the asset moves for a distance greater than 250 metres the Remora will automatically switch to trip mode. In trip mode the Remora will establish its location every 2 minutes and update the map with these position updates at the following times:

• Every 30 minutes during a trip
• At an end of trip (signalled by being stationary for 5 minutes)

The start of trip will not be shown until one of those two updates occurs.

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Remora Trip

When the Remora is stationary for a period of 5 minutes it will return to stationary mode and resume position updates every 12 hours.

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Health Check event - Known Location

If no GPS signal is available during a position update (described as a Health Check on the map) then an unknown location icon is displayed with the last recorded position. This can occur when the device is moved, but within the 250 metres meaning the device won't process the movement as a trip.

For Example: The device is attached to an asset that is moved into a shed overnight. The move is not shown on the map site (as it less than 250 metres), and the next time there is a position update, no GPS signal can be found from within the shed so provides its previous location with NO GPS location.

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Health Check event - Unknown Location

Note: Figures in italics can be altered - speak with your Customer Success Manager if these settings aren't right for the usage of a device.

The device can trigger Smartrak Geofence enter and exit emails (and/or SMS messages) when a GPS location update is detected inside or outside of a configured Geofence.

To enable this functionality, first create a Geofence with one of the following Geofence classes.

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Note: Though the class refers to Email, SMS can also be configured for these Geofence events.

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Using the 'Alerts' Geofences class will enable on-screen alerts on the Smartrak map site - both Emails and SMS can be configured for these alerts also.

Instructions for setting up recipients with Email and/or SMS notifications via Smartrak Admin can be found here

If you cannot see Geofence Enter/Exit classes on your map or the Alert type in Smartrak Admin, please make a request through the customer service portal for Geofence alerting.

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The Smartrak platform has a range of standard reports, the main reports for the OBD II are;

• Overspeed Period Report: Shows the individual periods when vehicles were speeding. The report includes the date and time of each period, overspeed period duration, location, posted speed limit (for those customers with the Posted Speed Limits feature enabled), and overspeed magnitude.  

• Overspeed Severity Report: A headline report showing the severity by which each vehicle was speeding (highest overspeed, longest time and distance speeding. Along with the magnitude of over-speeding for those customers with the Posted Speed Limits feature enabled). Vehicles can optionally be grouped into three categories (Most Serious, Moderate and Mild Offences) based on their degree of speeding.

• Fleet Utilisation Report: The Fleet Utilisation report reveals opportunities to optimise fleet usage and size.

• Trip: Provides an overview of all trips that occurred on a given day by the selected vehicle or group of vehicles.

• Geofence Report: Calculates distance travelled and time spent within a selected geofence. In conjunction with this report you can run ‘Trip out of Geofence’ which provides details of trips that are outside of the selected geofence.  

To learn how to run or schedule a report go to;