RavTrack PC Map Creation step-by-step
Creating a Map for RavTrack PC Creating a map to be utilized by RavTrack PC can be completed in just a few steps. We like to use a powerful mapping program called Global Mapper for development of our maps,…
Battery Comparison for GPS Tracking Device
Overview Many different types of batteries may be used with Raveon’s M7 series of GPS transponders. This Technical Brief describes how well some common battery types will work with the M7 radios. Actual battery life will vary based upon how…
TDMA Transmission Overview
TDMA, or Time-Division-Multiple-Access is a very effective way of allowing a lot of radios to share one radio channel. Used extensively in GSM cellular and APCO public-safety systems, TDMA excels at allowing quick and reliable access to radio channels. It…
Criterion International
After searching for and testing several UHF radios to upgrade a municipal water department’s wireless SCADA system, RAVEON’s Fireline modem was chosen as the best performance/value solution. The simple and versatile ability of the Fireline to be quickly configured easily…
Examples of events triggering fast reporting
The standard M7-GX GPS tracking transponder has 2 separate reporting rates, the TXRATE and the IDLERATE. In many deployments the TXRATE and IDLERATE are identical. However, in some deployments the IDLERATE is set to transmit position less frequently than the…
Setting Up VPN access to a Windows XP Computer
If you are running your GPS tracking system using RavTrack PC on a Windows XP computer, you may want remote users to be able to access the tracked objects database from a remote computer that is not on your local…
Identifying Digital Input States in a $PRAVE message
The $PRAVE message has the status of each input as represented by a single digit hexadecimal number in field 12. For example, the the $PRAVE message below, the last 3 represents the digital inputs from transponder 0001. $PRAVE,0001,0001,3308.9051,-11713.1164,195348,1,10,168,31,13.3,3,-83,0,0,,*66 In this…
Microsoft SQL Server User Logins
When you choose to use Microsoft SQL Server for your RavTrack PC database, all of the location information of the GPS tracked vehicles will be stored in the SQL database called "RavTrack". You must create this database manually using Micrtosoft's…
Crystal Reports Installation Issues
Integrated into RavTrack PC GPS Tracking software is a powerful report generating software program called Crystal Reports from SAP. As part of the RavTrack PC installation, a run-time redistribution module is installed on the computer along with RavTrack PC. The Crystal…
Configuring a Microsoft SQL Server Installation
With release of RavTrack PC vesion 3.1, RavTrack PC supports Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 and 2008. By default, RavTrack PC uses Microsoft Access databases and tables to store its inforamtion. Access is a very good choice for a database when…