DCT Antares SB, User Manual

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4.4. REPORTING
.
You can always define a DA containing a single DP so you can send
a single report to a single destination. For example:
>
SDA3;P01
<
Note:
For more information see the
DA
message.
4.4 Reporting
The reporting criteria depends solely on the Event Machine configuration
and on the parameters that controls how signals used by the events’ triggers
change. Events’
routing options allow the generation of reports to several
destinations including IP addresses, phone numbers (thru SMSs) and the
unit’s serial port for accessories like PDAs. To understand how reporting
configuration is done, refer to the next section called
Event Machine that
teaches on how to tell the unit the what , where and when of the user-defined
reports.
The reporting messages generated by the Event Machine to the Destina-
tions are the TAIP messages
EV
and
ET
. These messages contain among
other GPS-related information the event code generating the report. For
information on these messages refer to the TAIP reference.
For SMS’ destinations the
EV
and
ET
TAIP messages are used when an
AVL application has access to a SMS server system
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capable of receiving
the message and analyze it in the same way as does when it comes from an
IP channel. When the SMS destination is not an AVL server but a person’s
phone number, a user-defined text message associated to an event code can
be configured to be sent instead of the not-user-friendly TAIP message. To
do so the
XATM
message is used and the Destination Point configuration has
to be altered to tell the unit to use user messages on a given DP instead of
TAIP reporting messages. See the
XADP
message for more information on
this.
The Antares SB
TM
reporting messages that have to be interpreted
by the AVL software server are the
EV
and
ET
messages. See the
TAIP reference when developing an AVL application capable of
extracting the report information from these messages.
Note:
See also the Reports’ messages section on the Operation chapter.
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Using Short Message Peer-to-Peer Protocol (SMPP) or a dedicated GSM modem
connected via USB or serial port.
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