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1. Overview
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| What it is | The High Impact (g-force) and Rollover Detection Alert Feature will supplement organisations’ health and safety policies to enhance the ability to respond to driver distress resulting from a vehicle emergency (adverse event). The feature is intended to detect and report on adverse events that involve vehicle collisions and rollover of such severity that the driver may be rendered unable to communicate via normal means. It is not intended to detect all collisions, particularly at low-speed impacts e.g. fender-benders (refer to the expected performance for further detail). Features include:
The Alert Feature contains two distinct methods of monitoring the forces generated when a vehicle is involved in adverse event. These include:
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| How it works | Smartrak’s Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) device (see Limitations section below), securely fitted and located in the vehicle, monitors the accelerometer, checking for the three forms of adverse events above. When detected, the AVL will send an event to the Smartrak AVL Gateway, notifying it that an adverse event has occurred. This will be presented to any monitoring users on the map site, and through notifications to registered people. The emergency event comes through as shown below:
SMS alerts contain a cut down version of the email above, supplying the vehicle involved, date and time, location, and type of adverse event. |
| Expected feature performance | It is important to know the types of events that the AVL will and will not report on to fully understand the intended use of the feature, and its expected behaviour given a variety of situations that Smartrak identified through its development and testing phase. The following types of events are particularly important for the monitoring users to identify with in the case of an alert.
While we do not provide alert reporting for low-speed impacts and impact with smaller mass, Smartrak can provide Crash Reportingthat has detailed information on incident events collected by the AVL unit, such as history, speed, g-force, vehicle, and driver information. |
| Limitations | The High Impact and Rollover Detection Alert Feature must not be used as the sole means of any health and safety policy. It should only be used as a supplementary measure. As identified in the expected performance, the AVLs are not to be relied on to detect all adverse events on the road, furthermore there may be certain conditions where false positive alerts are generated. The feature will not function under these conditions:
Versions R8 & R9 are compatible with HIR. |
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