A GPS tracker for the family car
For private and family cars Teltonika proposes the FMC003 OBD tracker: it goes into the diagnostic socket in a minute and sends the owner location, trips, alerts and engine faults.
For private and family cars Teltonika proposes the FMC003 OBD tracker: it goes into the diagnostic socket in a minute and sends the owner location, trips, alerts and engine faults. The family car leads a life of its own while the owner is at work. A teenager who has just passed the test drives it, an elderly parent takes it out to the country house, and it spends the night in the yard under the windows. You would like to know where it is, whether it is all right and whether it is due for a service, but nobody wants to fit a complicated system that has to be spliced into the wiring just for that. The Teltonika solution is aimed precisely at the private owner: a tracker that needs no fitting work, data from the on-board computer, and notifications on the phone.
What this scenario solves
The owner does not know where the car is or how it is being driven while he is not there.
A traditional alarm sounds off in the yard but tells the owner nothing if he is far away.
Faults come to light when the car will not start or is already standing on the verge.
Fitting an ordinary tracker takes a specialist and means interfering with the wiring.
The owner does not know where the car is or how it is being driven while he is not there. A traditional alarm sounds off in the yard but tells the owner nothing if he is far away. Faults come to light when the car will not start or is already standing on the verge. Fitting an ordinary tracker takes a specialist and means interfering with the wiring.
There are more private cars in the world every year, and the questions that come with them grow too. How can you be sure a young driver is not racing round the city at night? How do you find out that the battery is going flat before it refuses to start on a Monday morning? What do you do if the car is stolen by modern methods that the factory alarm is powerless against?
For a family this is above all a question of peace of mind. Parents want to know their child got there. The children of elderly parents want to know the car has not broken down on the way out of town. The owner wants to know that nobody is touching the car in the yard.
At the same time a private customer has no appetite for the complications of corporate telematics. He does not need fitting work that takes the dashboard apart, a separate sensor in the tank and a dispatcher's console. He needs a device that goes in within a minute, needs no interference with the electrics, and sends notifications he can understand to his phone.
What Teltonika offers
The FMC003 goes into the OBD socket with no tools and no wiring, reads the on-board computer's data and sends it to the server along with the coordinates, where the owner sees everything in an app.
Installation and setup
Fitting the device and configuring it for the fleet scenario at hand.
Data transfer
The device collects data and sends it to the monitoring platform; how often depends on the model and its settings.
Analysis and control
The person in charge gets reports and alerts and looks into what stands out.
OBD trackers suit private customers well. They are compact, light and inexpensive, they provide enough parameters for monitoring, and they are fitted in a matter of minutes. There are no connections to the wiring, so fitting needs no specialist and raises no questions with the dealer.
For this scenario Teltonika recommends the FMC003 — a compact Plug & Play tracker for the OBD socket with 4G LTE support. Besides coordinates it reads manufacturer (OEM) data, including the real odometer mileage and the real fuel level rather than calculated figures.
How it works. The tracker fixes its position from satellites and at the same time keeps an eye on the car's parameters. All of it goes over the mobile network to the server, where the data is processed. The owner looks at it on a computer, a tablet or in a mobile app, whichever suits him. If something out of the ordinary happens to the car, a notification goes straight to him or to another member of the family.
An example. At night the car is standing in the yard and the tracker records a suspicious vibration, and a minute later a disconnection from the socket. The owner gets a notification, looks out of the window and sees what is going on. What happens next is his decision: go out, ring a neighbour, call the police. If the car is taken away on a recovery truck after all, the towing notification will fire and the last point will stay in the history.
What the owner sees. The current location and the history of trips with date, time, distance and stops. Harsh driving and speeding. A low charge, or a battery going flat too quickly. Fuel consumption and the level in the tank. Engine starts. Leaving a defined zone — if the car has left the city, for example. An attempt to jam the tracker's signal, vibration while parked, towing. Engine fault codes.
The upshot is that the owner knows better where his car and his family are, sends the car in for service in good time, gets detailed reports and can count on better insurance terms where insurers take telematics data into account. And he sleeps more soundly.
Limitations. An OBD tracker is visible if you know where to look, and an experienced thief can pull it out — the owner will get a disconnection notification, but after that the track will stop. If protection against theft comes first, a hidden tracker wired into the electrics is better. On some cars the OBD socket sits where the tracker gets in the driver's way; an extension lead is used then.
What the basic package includes. An FMC003 tracker for the OBD socket, a SIM card for data, and access to the monitoring platform with its mobile app. Fitting with no wiring, and notifications set up to suit the family.
Who sees what. Each member of the family can be given their own login and their own set of notifications: alerts about the car in the yard for one, departure from the city for another. If an adult member of the family uses the car, it is fair to discuss watching their trips with them in advance — a tracker is there to help people look after each other, not for secret surveillance.
The boundary of the offer. This is a solution for a private car: location, trips, alerts, engine faults. It does not replace a security alarm with a response service and it does not guarantee the car will be recovered if it is stolen.
What you get
You fit it yourself
The tracker goes into the OBD socket with no tools and no specialist, which is a real convenience for a private owner.
A history of every trip
The route, distance, date, time and stops are all kept, so there is no longer any need to argue about where the car went.
You can see how the car is driven
Sharp acceleration, braking and speeding help you have a word with a young driver in good time and avoid accidents and fines.
Alerts go straight to the owner
Vibration, tracker disconnection, towing and signal jamming are sent as a notification to whoever cares most about the car.
Faults show up in advance
The state of the battery and engine fault codes let you call into the workshop before the car stops altogether.
You can look from anywhere
The data is available from a computer, a tablet and a smartphone, and notifications are set up for each member of the family.
Why this solution
The FMC003 is made for exactly this private segment: a compact housing, fitting with no wiring, 4G LTE connectivity and manufacturer data including real mileage and fuel level. For the owner it is a device that works as soon as it is plugged in and needs no maintenance.
Unlike an ordinary alarm, the tracker reports events to the person they concern, anywhere and at any time. Whether it is a teenager's first drive alone or an elderly parent's long journey, the family can see that all is well and finds out if something has gone wrong. Firmware and settings can be updated remotely, so the tracker does not grow old along with the car.
How this works in Azerbaijan. A tracker like this is most often bought here by parents whose children have just passed their test and drive around Baku and Absheron, and by families whose elderly relatives travel out to the districts — to Guba, Sheki, Gabala, Lankaran. Another frequent request is protecting a car that spends the night in the yard of a block of flats with no guarded parking. Points to allow for: on some cars imported from other markets the set of OBD data is incomplete, so we check mileage and fuel level at fitting. On the mountain roads beyond Guba and in the Sheki-Zagatala zone coverage drops out in places; the tracker stores its points in memory during that time and sends them once the network returns. GPS.az fits the FMC003, connects it to the Wialon platform and sets up notifications to the mobile app: you log in through go.gps.az in a browser or the Wialon app on a phone. The tracker carries a 1 year warranty.
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