What are Driver Periods?

A Driver Period is a duration in which we recorded a Person as being the Driver of a Remote.

Driver Periods can come from a number of different sources, such as completed Smartrak Pool Booking bookings, iButtons, Identifiers, or completed PoolCar bookings.

Companies can be configured to use no source, a single source, or multiple sources at one time.

Driver Sources

Driver sources are enabled per-company by requesting this be done via the Smartrak Service Desk

Smartrak Pool Booking

• Only checked-out or checked-in bookings are used (This can be a manual or automatic check-in).

• Checked-out bookings are treated as continuing forever until they get checked-in.

• To enable: must be enabled via Service Desk

• To use: Create bookings in Smartrak Pool Booking!

Smartrak Identifications

• Log-on periods from the Identifications system can be used as a source for Driver ID.

• Supported Identifications are:

  • Smartrak Identify App

    • Log on/off using a mobile app on your personal iOS or Android device.

  • iButtons

    • Log on/off by attaching/detaching a personal iButton to a KCS AVL

    • The current iButton system will not be supported. An entire new standalone separate system has been developed, which means current/historical iButton periods will not be used in the Driver-based reports. Customers will have to migrate to the new iButton Identifications system using this tool in Admin: NEW - iButton Migration Process (for use with NEW - Driver Based Reporting) .

• To enable: must be enabled via Service Desk

• To use: Create and assign identifications in Admin, or use the Smartrak Identify Mobile App.

Smartrak Assigned Drivers

• This provides the ability to assign who is the regular Driver for a Remote, via a page in Admin.

• This is designed to support smaller companies where employees have personal vehicles, and Pool Booking or iButtons are not needed or used. Or, for companies who have a mixture of Pool vehicles and (semi-)permanently assigned vehicles.

• This will replace the purpose of the current ‘Driver Name / Driver Phone Number’ system, which is set on the Resource Info page in Admin.

• To enable: must be enabled via Service Desk

• To use: Create people/drivers under the Manage / People page in Smartrak Admin and assign them via the Manage / Drivers page in Smartrak Admin.

PoolCar Bookings

• Only checked-out or checked-in bookings are used (This can be a manual or automatic check-in).

• Checked-out bookings are treated as continuing forever until they get checked-in.

• The Driver's name and email on the booking are used to name the Driver (the driver does not have to exist in the Smartrak system).

• We match the Smartrak Remote to the PoolCar booking based on the vehicle's rego.

• To enable: must be enabled via Service Desk

• To use: Create and check out bookings in PoolCar!

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