5.2.1 Create new alarm

You create a new alarm by following this procedure:

1 First you name the alarm and select which type of alarm you wish to create:

2 Depending on the type of alarm you will need to fill in different fields:

Description	Fields
Geofence Will raise an alarm if a unit moves more than a certain distance away from its current position.	Unit: Select the unit the alarm will apply to. Distance: The number of meters the unit must move in order for the alarm to go off.
Point Will raise an alarm if one or more units arrive within a certain radius of a specified point. This alarm type also allows for a reverse alarm when a unit moves away from a point, or has not arrived at a point within a certain time frame.	Application: Whether the alarm should apply to all units, selected units, or to a group. If you select one of the latter two, you will need to select units or group, respectively. Type: Select what should trigger the alarm – when moving into a point, away from a point, or not reaching the point before a specified time. If choosing the latter you will need to provide a date and time. Point: Select the point that will trigger the alarm. Distance: The tolerance, defined as a radius around the point. Being within this radius will qualify the unit as arrived at the point. You must fill this in to at least compensate for any GPS inaccuracy.
Zone This is identical to point alarms, except that units are registered within a zone and not in proximity of a point. See the Zones section for more on how to manage zones.	Application: Whether the alarm should apply to all units, selected units, or to a group. If you select one of the latter two, you will need to select units or group, respectively. Type: Select what should trigger the alarm – when moving into a zone, out of a zone, or not reaching the zone before a specified time. If choosing the latter you will need to provide a date and time.
Inputs An input alarm will go off if the selected input is active. An input can be connected to pretty much anything on a unit, and is a simple on/off auxiliary alarm.	Application: Whether the alarm should apply to all units, selected units, or to a group. If you select one of the latter two, you will need to select units or group, respectively. Input: Select which input should trigger the alarm. Make sure to check the unit configuration of inputs to ensure that you select the right input (See the Fleet section). Click the Show more inputs link to expand the selection of available inputs.
Movement A movement alarm will go off if any movement is registered within a specified time frame.	Application: Whether the alarm should apply to all units, selected units, or to a group. If you select one of the latter two, you will need to select units or group, respectively. Week days: Select the days you want the alarm to inspect the selected units. Time: Select the time window in the selected days that movement must be detected.
Unit state Monitoring of the general “health” of your GPS device. Enables you to setup an alarm on either the device’s power level (voltage), internal battery level, signal conditions or ability to transmit data. Note that the alarm can only be set up on one of the options.	Application: Whether the alarm should apply to all units, selected units, or to a group. If you select one of the latter two, you will need to select units or group, respectively. Power level: An expression of the external power supply, eg. +12V or +24V. The power level can be adjusted down to 1 decimal place, making it possible to set up a more accurate alarm. Choose from the predefined power levels, or enter a desired value, with decimal, into the text field. Note the lower and upper power level limits. Battery level: An expression of the GPS devices internal power supply, a Li-ion battery. This power source may, for certain devices, take over if the external power supply fails. GPS fix: An expression of when a valid GPS fix was received last. No GPS fix may be the result of a poor satellite coverage. Data sending: An expression of when a data transmission was received last. Data transmission is performed via GPRS, and will continue undeterred even if the device has no valid GPS fix.
Temperature Will raise an alarm if the temperature moves past one of the limit values.	Application: Whether the alarm should apply to all units, selected units, or to a group. If you select one of the latter two, you will need to select units or group, respectively. Temperature 1/2 limits: Use these to specify the upper and lower temperature limits for the sensor. Note that the use of two sensors does not necessarily yield the same limits, as the sensors can be located in different places with different temperature conditions.

Definition of movement:
Movement is registered when the unit starts driving.
Moving the unit (on maybe a trailer) to another location – will not be registered as movement.
See the examples below, for details on how to set the movement alarm.
The examples clarify how the inspection of the units work, when selecting specific weekdays.

Monday From 10.00 To 15.00	Units are inspected: Monday, From 10.00 To 15.00
Monday From 18.00 To 07.00	Units are inspected: Monday, From 18.00 To 23.59 Tuesday, From 00.00 To 07.00
Monday+Tuesday From 18.00 To 07.00	Units are inspected: Monday, From 18.00 To 23.59 Tuesday, From 00.00 To 07.00 Tuesday, From 18.00 To 23.59 Wednesday, From 00.00 To 07.00
Friday+Saturday+Sunday From 15.00 To 07.00	Units are inspected: Friday, From 15.00 To 23.59 Saturday, From 00.00 To 07.00 Saturday, From 15.00 To 23.59 Sunday, From 00.00 To 07.00 Sunday, From 15.00 To 23.59 Monday, From 00.00 To 07.00 Note, that this alarm does not inspect the selected units saturday+sunday from 07.00 to 15.00! A ‘weekend inspection’ would require four separate alarms. As an example: Friday 15.00-23.59 (alarm1), Saturday 00.00-23.59 (alarm2), Sunday 00.00-23.59 (alarm3), Monday 00.00-07.00 (alarm4).

If movement is registered within the time frames for the selected days, an alarm is triggered.

3 Once the alarm is defined, you specify who should receive the alarm and how.
For both e-mail and system notifications you can select any number of recipients. See the Searching and selecting items section for details.

4 Finally you must check the Active box in order for the alarm to be applied.
Toggling an alarm active/not active is a nice way of turning an alarm on or off without having to delete and re-create the alarm each time.