Currently, we develop a new dashboard for bulk usage of all of your GPS tracker from scratch. You will be able to preview & test our new Tracker Management in your Racemap account, soon. We are excited about your feedback already. 

In the last two years, customers proposed enhancementS for the (de)activation process of devices, and some asked to ease the pricing of the tracker management also. Reason enough to simplify both, the activation process & the pricing.  

As the 2nd step of launching the new tracker management, we initialize a more convenient charging for its usage on the 1st of January 2023. Find all details below. Do not hesitate to drop us a line with your feedback. 

Racemap GPS tracker

• Free usage of the tracker management for bought & rented Racemap devices.
• €25 per device from external suppliers. The tracker management becomes usable for the lifetime of the device.
  
  

Or subscribe to the tracker management

In case you don't want to pay for lifetime usage of the tracker management you select the subscription and pay only when using it. 

• 1€ per device for 30 days, same as before.
• No minimum running time, previously 3 months.
• Free usage for 5 GPS trackers, previously no free tear.
  
  

How does tracker management become chargeable?

In case you don't use your GPS trackers for example during the off-season, we don't charge for tracker management.

• Only devices that are inserted into the tracker management.
• Devices become chargeable with usage, automatically.
• Set the new archive status for specific devices to prevent unintentional charges. Archived devices work for live tracking, nevertheless.
  
  

What applies as usage of tracker management?

• Add devices to tracking maps.
• Send messages to devices.
• Devices send coordinates.
• Change device name.
• Add user to devices.

No unintentional charges

On the 1st of January, all devices in your tracker management except Racemap devices will be archived, automatically. You can easily restore devices & make them usable in tracker management again. 

Go to your tracker management: https://racemap.com/admin/trackers

Our Tracker Management is the remote control for many location devices through GPRS messaging - sending commands, receiving SOS- & crash alerts, and status reports on the battery, reception & GNSS. We are currently developing a completely new dashboard for bulk managing GPS trackerS. The 1st enhancementS have been rolled out, already and you can get their advantage when commanding your GPS devices. 

Instant commands

We released to directly send commands (beta) if devices are connected with tracker management (online). Previously commands could be sent only when Racemap received a message from the corresponding device, which can take some minutes.

Process acknowledge response

We also rolled out to evaluate the acknowledge (ACK) response when Queclink GL3XY devices receive a command. The command queue now provides clear information on when a command was created, sent, and acknowledged. 

Read all information about Racemap communication platform for GPS tracker in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/hardware-for-live-tracking/trackermanagement

For a couple of months now, we are providing the grabber to pull real-time data from endurance races and make the data usable for live productions such as video broadcasting. Time for an update. 

We now added the new parameters gap, gapAverage, gapChase and gapDistance to the grabber. Additionally, there can be set a refDeviceId or a refStartNumber to flexibly define the reference device for the gap calculations. 

Furthermore, the drafting- and related penalty discussion at triathlons let us develop a prototype of a drafting tool. The tool evaluates the distance between participants and monitors if participants move in the draft zone.

All information about our handy tools to easily extract live data from our */current-API can be found in our documentation article: https://docs.racemap.com/data-api/grabber  

The current API processes real-time geolocation data for TV graphics & overlays, speed monitoring, gap time calculation, and any other 3rd party application that needs live data from sports events. We now added three parameters to the API: 

• speedRaw: Average speed in [m/s] is calculated with the interpolated raw coordinates. 
• gapChase: Duration in [s] to reach the current location of the leader respectively of the reference device. Prediction with the speed of the chaser. 
• gapDistance: Distance in [m] to reach the current location of the leader respectively of the reference device.  

With this update, the startNumber is a query parameter and the leader is the reference for the calculation of gapAverage, gap, gapChase, and gapDistance by default.

Read all about our current API and find live samples to test with your applications in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/data-api/current

There are many users that manage the participant information in RACE RESULT 12. Racemap provides an interface to import & sync participants with your tracking map, easily. Using the synchronization feature you just need to update only one source of participants' data. 

We now reworked this modal and added some enhancements. 

• Showing the list of contests corresponding to the event id.
• Select each contest separately to sync with the tracking map.
• Showing the time of the last synchronization.
• Parsing the raw data file and showing an overview such as the number of participants with transponder id.

Read all about the import of participants from RACE RESULT into your tracking map in our documentation https://docs.racemap.com/api-import-and-export-data/import-basics/metadata-import-via-rr.

We've added parameters to flexibly adjust the mapping algorithm to the specific needs of your event: 

• Max. mapping distance
• Max. and Min speed for speedfilter

This will allow for more accurate mapping, and we are sure it will be a helpful addition for your event. Access the mapping parameters in the "Danger Zone" of the advanced settings of your event.

The mapping impacts all functions and features in Racemap that calculate the relation of the devices' locations to the shadowtrack. Which are visualization, leaderboard, monitor, */ranks & */current API.

How does the mapping work? GPS devices send their geo data to a specific tracking map. The mapping calculates the device's location on the shadowtrack. The algorithm takes into account the device's current coordinates and its previous location on the track. Mapping considers laps and assumes that a device moves onwards (and not backward) on the track.

Our monitor is a safety dashboard for the head office of endurance races. This tool provides real-time data directly from the race course to verify the participants' situation and to support making precise decisions within seconds. During this season a growing number of rally events use this solution to monitor the drivers' safety. Due to this specific use case, we were asked to feature automated crash detection. 

Now, in Tracker Management crash alerts can be activated for Pro GPS tracker. The setting parameters are the sensitivity and the revoke time. Crash detection is highlighted in the monitor (same as the SOS alert). Recipients for alert emails can be defined, too. 

We improved the alert and notification stream, also. Now, notifications of the same category are stacked for each device. The latest notification is shown on top, users can navigate through the messages and copy related coordinates.

We enhanced the list with the Participants Data in the event settings. The style is cleaner, the list loads much faster and you are able to work more efficiently. The two major improvements are 

• The list flexibly spreads to full display size and
• The menu shows the number of entries.

Since we are providing live geodata through APIs two years ago, we have been asked for a handy tool to extract specific values such as speed, distance to go, gap or away from track etc. 

In most cases, a TV production has no time to develop or adapt their solution feeding the overlay with live data from our API. Now you can use our handy and flexible grabber tool to directly display specific live data in a browser tab. We are looking forward to learning more about your use cases and how you are going to apply this solution.

Read more about this solution in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/data-api/grabber

We added the option to preset filters for the visualization. When setting the "none" status as the default filter, the tracking map will initially hide participants with a DSQ or DNF status tag. Spectators watching the visualization can adjust the filter in the tracking map, also.