You can see all the hardware information about your vehicles on the Hardware screen. The data is presented in a grid, with each vehicle's information in a row. To begin, follow these steps:


  1. Click  >> Hardware.

    The Hardware screen will appear.
      
    The row data is color coordinated as follows:
     
    •  (white): The unit and peripheral are in working order.
       
    • (red): Neither the unit nor peripheral has reported in the past 24 hours.
        
    • (orange): The unit reported, but the peripheral didn’t.
        
    • (yellow): No GPS events were reported today, but the diagnostic message was received.
       
  2. Click the column header for how you would like to sort the hardware information — for example, to sort by vehicle number, click the Vehicle column header.
    Note: The first click will sort the values in the column in ascending order. If you click the column header a second time, it will switch the sort order to descending.
  3. You can customize what is displayed in the grid so that you see just the data you want, including adding or removing columns, rearranging where they are onscreen, and saving your new layout. See Customizing the Grid Layout for details. You can also sort and filter the columns as shown in Sorting and Filtering Column Data.
     
  4. Use the scroll bar along the bottom of the grid to view the columns to the right (and the vertical scroll bar on the right side of the screen to view more vehicles).
           
  5. To see more details for a particular vehicle, click  in its row. The tabs of the Details window are as follows:
     
    • Alerts: Displays any hardware anomalies alerts for the vehicle you have specified in the Hardware Settings dialog box, which are GPS Antenna Issue, GPS Freeze Issue, Grouped Input Wiring Issue, Ignition Wiring Issue, Input Wiring Issue, and Missed Daily Diagnostics, plus when they occurred. If an alert issue has been resolved, you can select it and click Marked As Fixed. Your name will be automatically entered into the Fixed By column, and the current date will appear in the Fixed On column. You can see any notes included for the alert in the Notes grid, and you can add a comment by typing it in the Notes box and clicking Add Note.
       
      In Settings, you can also choose the time frame of alerts and whether to display acknowledged ones.
         
    • CalAmp Details: Shows the CalAmp script, which is a reference for maintenance.
         
    • Map Details: If your organization has mobile data terminals (MDTs), this tab will appear and list all map versions on the MDT. (Because ALK Maps, CalAmp K-12's map provider, supplies regionally specific maps, each device can have multiple map versions on it.)
         
  6. You can open the Edit screen for a vehicle on a new tab by clicking in its row and make any necessary changes, such as modifying the vehicle type. (See Managing a Vehicle’s Properties for details.)


Most of the column headers are self-explanatory, but it might not be immediately clear what information the following ones contain:


  • ESN: Stands for electronic serial number, a unique identifier for the location messaging unit (LMU) — the GPS device. 
          
  • Last Event: The last event that was transmitted from the LMU.
     
  • Last Event Timestamp: The date and time (in local time) of the last event.
     
  • Last Event Signal Strength: The signal strength of cellular coverage when the last event was reported.
     
  • Last Location: The address of the last event.
     
  • Last Diagnostic: The date and time the last diagnostic message was transmitted to CalAmp.
     
  • Last IP Address: The last IP address (a unique identifier for a computer using the Internet Protocol to communicate over a network, composed of a string of numbers separated by periods, such as 131.245.232.112) that submitted data to CalAmp.
     
  • First Report Date: The date and time the GPS device sent its first report to the server.   
     
  • Last ID Report: The date and time the last ID report was transmitted to CalAmp.
     
  • IMSI: Stands for international mobile subscriber identity, a unique identifier for the SIM card. 
          
  • IMEI: Stands for international mobile equipment identity, a unique identifier for the LMU (a type of ESN). 
          
  • Last Peripheral Report: The date and time the last event was transmitted from the peripheral hardware.
     
  • Peripheral MCU: MCU stands for microcontroller unit. This is a small computer that controls the power on the MDTs. 
          
  • Peripheral ATS: ATS stands for A317 Telematics Service. This is the program that sends tracking information from the All-in-Ones (AIOs), which are nontethered MDTs.

Note: One column that many customers find particularly useful is Odometer. This contains the current odometer value for the vehicle, if you've entered the initial value on the Vehicles screen. CalAmp K-12 increments this value based on mileage data from the GPS device. (See Inputting a Vehicle's Odometer Setting for more details.)