In most cases, our monitor dashboard is used to increase the safety of endurance sports events. Usually, the monitor is streamed on a large screen in the race office. 

Users asked for better targeting of the SOS alerts from GPS trackers. Hence we published a feature to send detailed SOS notification emails which perfectly works on smartphones. 

When a participant presses the SOS button of its GPS tracker the editors of the tracking map receive a short email summarizing relevant information: 

• name of the event (to keep an overview when multiple events are running at the same time),
• participant's name & bib number,
• time, when the participant pressed the SOS button on the GPS device,
• name of the device in the tracker management 
• link to the corresponding monitor with additional data such as the last known location to verify the situation in the race 
• exact coordinates of the SOS alert, to copy and past and forward to the helicopter team
• maps showing the overview

The SOS email is sent a couple of hours before and after the event start- and end time

• if monitor  add-on is activated for the event and 
• if the GPS device is active in the tracker management

We reworked the navigation panel of the interactive race visualization. Now the user interface is more intuitive and provides exciting new features. The enhancements improve the useability of Racemap tracking apps, too. 

• Selection of contests and stages 
• Selection and highlight of tracks and lines 
• Separate buttons for points of interest and for athletes 
• Filter added to athletes 
• Stronger highlighting of flags due to size difference

We added new features to the Tracker Management, which let you quickly select multiple GPS tracker used for a specific event. This way for example you can target commands to those devices that are used for your half marathon. With the new "events" column, you can filter your GPS trackers according to your tracking maps. The column shows the number of events in which the device is assigned and you can hover the events' names.

We reworked the interactive race VISUALIZATION and moved the option to select contests & stages to the navigation bar. Selecting, searching, & filtering the participants, points of interest, and contests in a tracking map can be applied in one place.

The main advantages of this improvement are: 

• Cleaner and more intuitive user interface in group- & in stage maps. 
• More space to show the map as the contest selector does not overlay the map anymore. 

We improved the filter tags in our interactive tracking maps. Now, participants without a specific attribute in a category can be selected separately. Using this enhancement you can easily hide participants with a DNF or DSQ attribute in order to show only those participants who are still in the race.

Additionally, the selected filter attributes are set in the URL of the tracking map. Sample: https://racemap.com/player/100KmDuathlon2018_Repeat#filter=Age:--null--     

The improvements are valid for past events also.

Superspring is the leading GPS company and asset tracker in Indonesia. Local customers asked to integrate the protocol and commands of their M20 GPS tracker into our Tracker Management. 

For devices that are subscribed to our tracker management, you can now work with the following commands to remote control your superspring M20 GPS trackers, efficiently:

• Reboot device
• GPS report interval 
• Send a custom command
• Activate & deactivate SOS SMS
• Activate & deactivate vibration alarm

Read more about how easy controlling many GPS trackers simultaneously: https://docs.racemap.com/hardware-for-live-tracking

There are specific events such as activity challenges or virtual races where the progress of the participants' activities is more relevant than their current location. For that reason, we have been asked to enable our tracking apps to show the leaderboard as the 1st screen when users open the event in the app.

We added two options in the visualization section of each tracking map:

• Default app screen (either the map or the leaderboard)
• Disabled app screen e.g. to hide the tracking map from publicity

We added commands for the meitrack MT90 GPS tracker to the Tracker Management. The meitrack MT90 is the 9th GPS device that can be remotely controlled in our tracker management. 

For active devices in our tracker management, you can now work with the following commands to efficiently remote control your meitrack MT90 GPS trackers:

• Reboot GSM
• Reboot GPS
• Sleep mode on
• Sleep mode off
• Report interval
• Send custom command

Read more on how Racemap supports you working with many GPS trackers: https://docs.racemap.com/hardware-for-live-tracking

Racemap tracking platform provides a solution for live visualization of a races from sporadic reads of the timing system. We call it predictive tracking (prediction). We now published our new dashboard for the prediction showing insights and giving feedback to improve your predictive live tracking and supporting your team on the race ground. 

The dashboard is separated into four sections: 

With our monitor we provide a dashboard automatically showing the safety status of participants. Users feedbacked to prioritize filtering and highlighting the relevant information. For that reason, we reworked the monitor to improve its useability in the race office. The two most important enhancements are 

• Column added with status tags, which let users hide devices of participants with DNS- or DSQ-status. 
• Alert stream supports selecting and highlighting the corresponding entry in the device list. 

Read more about the monitor in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/how-to-use-live-tracking/monitor