IntelliPlanner Movement Information & Planning System (MIPS)

User Guide, For v2.1, Rev 0.9

Change History
Date Version Changes
2010-02-19 0.9 Created for v2.1

Purpose

This document, using screen shots, presents the main functionality of MIPS system. It covers the
functionality available to pre-built General role and focuses on end-use aspects of the systems rather
than on setup/administrative functions. The application is available through the web and the easiest way
is to just play around.

The document is broken up into following parts

1. Navigating and finding your way around the application
2. Overview of functionality and concepts
3. Detailed instructions

Navigating and finding your way around the application

In order to access the application, please type in the following address in your Internet Explorer1
Browser’s address bar:

http://www.ipssi.com/amber.htm

or

http://203.197.197.17:8008/LocTracker/home.jsp

It will be good for you to book mark the address. Once you type-in you will be asked to login:

1
As of 2.1, only IE 6 and above browsers are supported. Support of other browsers (Navigator and Chrome are
planned)
Once you login you will see a page like as follows:

At the top black bar contains your Menu options. The document calls this as menu tab. When you put
your mouse on the text a drop-down sub-menu will come up giving other choices. The options that
appear in the menu tab as well as drop-down sub-menu are controlled by privileges granted to you:
 Menu Options

Click to go to first
sub menu Submenu options

Will appear when you point

your mouse on the text. Submenu options

Click to goto sub menu Will appear if there are

option options below sub-menu

When you are using the tool, you would either be looking at data about vehicles or setting up controls
that control how the tool recognizes trips or rules or who to alert etc etc (see concepts later).

A typical “Information Look” screen looks as follows:

Link for downloading data

Click on it and save data .xls

format and the report will be
saved in Excel

Links for customizing

Result Table:
If you have privilege to customize
This table (on which this box is for whole Org only then
being shown is the result table) Customize for Org will appear
Search Box:
1. Clicks on column headers to 1. Click on it and a page will pop
Fill desired search sort. First click sorts increasing (as shown on next screen that lets
criteria in the options and then reverses. you select columns, titles and
provided and press 2. Clicks on successive column order that appear in report)
‘Go’ button to get header sorts successively
report for selected
criteria
As noted in the 3rd box, you can change the columns that appear and the order and the labels – when you
click on “Customize” order you will see a new page pop-up that appears like as follows:

Customizing your report

Obviously you select the column,

the order and the title that you
want for the column.

Press Save to Save the changes

Press Discard & Refresh to undo
changes you might have done
Press Set to Default to set to
default report for your org

Data Entry operations usually follow the following approach:

1. You see a list of ‘items’ of interest. On the top you will see buttons to create (and sometimes
delete and other buttons of relevant interest) and you will see a search box if relevant.
2. Pressing on the link of a specific item will take you to page to edit or create

Below is an example:
 This is an example showing how you view
list of rules available to you. Depending
upon the list of objects, you might see a
search box. Press on Go to search.

Once you press on the link you will get to the detail page for the item of interest:

Always Press Save Changes to finally Save

Press Discard Changes to undo changes

and reload page

Press Back to go to list – on some pages

this button may not appear
Press “back” button of your key
board or “Back” button of your
browser or click on menu to go
back

Press on + button icon to add new row

and X button icon to remove row

On Using On the Map

Most map screens will show map on left and on right hand side show relevant information. At the top of
the map you will see buttons that let you zoom etc (see the etc below)

Because the menu at top as well as IE itself takes some space, we give the ability to hide things. To hide
the menu press on the up arrow button on button bar of map. You can reshow the menu by just
repressing it

To hide/show IE’s button, press F-11

On map you can zoom (in – see detail or out – see totality). You can zoom to a particular area. You can
save the current zoom and area as preferred view (when you come next time it will show by default). You
can pan (move around the map). All of these buttons are available on top as well as by right clicking.

In addition, sometime by mistake you may make selection on map – currently we do not offer any
functionality that uses selection capability. Simply right click and clear selection. You can also measure
distance between points.
In addition on map (especially in setup) you may be able to ‘identify’ things. Same map editing approach
is used everywhere. Here is an example for region setup.

You come here by pressing Setup then Map

Items Setup then Region Definition and then On
Map

Relevant information is shown on right. Here

shows list of regions. Usually you select some
items and bring mouse on buttons to take action
on those. Here we press show/hide on ACC Gagal
element to show the region on left

To add new region, put mouse

on Add, a drop down of
Polygon or Rectangle appears.

To use rectangle – select

rectangle button and then
press your mouse on one
corner of region and while
keeping it pressed drag to
opposite corner. You will slight
highlight of selected

To use free-form polygon (or

other free forms) click at
corners and at last point click
Ctrl+Click

Once you are done, you will be

prompted to provide additional
information
Concepts and Overview
The MIPS tool uses GPS technology to bring real-time positional and other vehicle information of your
vehicle to you through this application. This information is available to you in visual manner on a map.

In addition you can set up ‘Rules’ to monitor the data coming in from vehicles and if conditions are met
then actions to be taken. Also you can tell the system your ‘Operating Stations’ and ask the system to
identify trips that happen. The system will look at when vehicle goes into an operating area and exits,
records the in/out information and then creates trips for the vehicles

The trips and ‘rule conditions’ identified are available to you in reports.

Furthermore synthesized operational information is available to you on screen in a dashboard like format

Let us look at the menu tab in order to examine the key information and planning tool available to you:
Menu Sub- Sub-sub-menu Description Deta
menu il’s
Link
Home First page that appears at login N/A
Setup Controls monitoring and trip estimation behavior of
system
Device Models List of Devices & their capabilities supported by software TBD
Not available to general users.
IO Mappings Controls how I/O connection on devices get converted to
vehicle data
IO Mapping List Mapping of I/O pins of device to data.
Currently Not available to general users.
Reading-to- Conversion table for data electrical signal to data value
Value Currently Not available to general users.
Manage Rules
Rules Conditions that need to be monitored
Rules Sets Grouping of rules that then are assigned to vehicles
Manage Alerts Tells who to alert if conditions become true for a vehicle
Rule Alert Assignment of who to alert in what time window if a
‘rule’ happens
Region Alerts Assignment of who to alert in what time window if there
are delays at operating stations
Vehicle Setup Information about device installed in vehicle, including
who gets temporary access, the rule(sets) to apply, the
alert(sets) to apply, I/O mapping
Operating Stations Definition of what constitutes wait, gate, operating
areas of loading/unloading stations (plus some other
‘types’ of stations to help with dashboarding)
Map Items Setup
Route Prescribed road and regions in which a vehicle can
operate (feeds rule setup)
Landmarks
On Map Defining landmarks of interest on map. These landmarks
appear on map and also describe the ‘location’ of
something happening
File Upload Doing same through file
Regions
On Map Defining regions that helps identify for example loading
areas on map
Direct lat/long Doing same by just entering lat/long of the regions
entry
Planning How many vehicles? Where? Who is the driver
Shift Schedule How many vehicles? Where? Who is the driver
Drivers List of available drivers
Load Piles If loading location is determined by shovel operation,
you can identify where the shovel is operating by
‘bench’ and optionally by blasted ore location. Unlike
landmarks these are temporary
Unload Yards If unloading location is determined by dozer etc, you
can identify the same. Unlike landmarks these are
temporary
Shift setup The hours for your shift
Current
On Map Real-time information of vehicles shown on map
Textual Real-time information of vehicles shown in text form
Analysis Various reports – the options vary from customer to
customer and user to user
Trip & Movement Trip summary, detail and mileages
Comparative One page view of comparative performance across
 drivers, vehicles
Movement summary Stops, Moves, Fuel consumption
Event Report All conditions that you set in rules
Raw Logged Data For integration
Movement & Event On map playback of vehicles’ movement as well as
Visualization events that occurred
Dashboards Various customized view of your operating performance
On Rule sets, Alert Sets etc.

You will notice things like Rule set – basically inorder to enable you to make changes multiple vehicles at
the same time, the system groups alerts and rules in a set and this is what you assign to vehicles.

On Organization:
The unit for controlling who sees what is done through organization. As a user you granted functional
roles on an organization and you can only do those functions on data of the organization. Organizations
are arranged in a tree like manner (typical to Org hierarchy found in most corporations). However
recognizing that you might want to give view only access to a vehicle to your customers, you can assign
a vehicle to multiple to organizations for viewing purposes.

Details of functions
Below are key relevant screens with notes to help you understand the functions of each screen

Notation: X->Y->Z
Means go to X level menu, then Y sub menu etc
X->Y->Z link means go to X level menu, then Y sub menu and link of the Z object in the table

Rules List (Setup -> Manage Rules -> Rules)

List of rules available to you for viewing or
editing.

Rule Type:
Stop – If vehicle stops
Moving – If vehicle is moving
Region – If vehicle enters/exits
region. You enter region in
Parameter field and in/out in
condition
Route Deviation - You enter
Route in Parameter field &
distance in threshold
Data – You enter Data Attribute
in Parameter field & conditions
like >, < etc in condition. Than
value appears in Param Value.
Use $Previous to indicate
previous value
Edit Rules (Setup -> Manage Rules ->
Rules -> Click on desired rule or Create)
Rule consists of multiple conditions that must
evaluate to true for the rule to ‘fire’
Rule must be true for Threshold min. to take Actions
Fields for rule
Name: Name of Rule
Applicable to: For what organization is the rule
Status: Active/Inactive/Deleted(Set to Deleted to
delete )
Notes: Description of rule
Setting Threshold Setting Actions
In Region you optionally
select a region. The thresholds Select SMS or EMAIL depending
written in the row will apply upon action to take
only if the conditions happened
to be true, first, in the region In alert set you will then
specified. If multiple rows specify who to send this
qualify then the first one is alert. You will see the rules
used. If none qualify and there in Alert set up even if no
is a row with no region action has been set up here-
specified (‘select’ text appears but the system will ignore
in select box) then that row is such rules
used.
First alert to be taken at
completion of 1st Threshold and
so forth.
1st Threshold is mandatory
and can be 0 for immediate.
Alert Target Set (Setup -> Manage Alert ->
Rule Alert or Region Alert)
People to whom send alert to when rules become
true and actions need to be taken
 Name: Name to identify

Active From & Active To:

How long will this alert set be
valid

Applicable to: Which org’s

vehicle can this alertset be
applied to

Status:
Active/Inactive/Deleted

Select Alert to FROM-TO Send alert to this The person to whom to send
Rule send person between these days alert.
against (SMS or
which to EMAIL) If the alert needs to be send Click on + sign to create new
send between From-Time to To- contact
Alert Time

Operating Stations (Setup -> Manage

Operating Stations
Define what constitutes outside gate, queue area and
operating areas. Actually anywhere you want to track
‘operating performance’ create different types of stations
(see detail)
Operating Detail (Setup -> Manage Operating Linked Vehicles
If Operating Station positioned by
Stations -> Operation Region Link vehicle then put the vehicle here. Only
vehicles of Shovel Type can be selected
here
Operating Area Types
Load – Entry here indicates loading
Unload – Entry here indicates unloading
Load Track – Not for trip but for tracking operational
performance. Usually for inside specific performance.
Operational performance also kept for regular load/unload
Unload Track – Similar to Load Track
Rest Areas – Vehicles here are not considered operational
Near Load Region for Vehicle at gate – To know extended
vehicles coming in
Near Unload Region for Vehicle at gate – Similar to above

Key Parameters
Wait Region – Vehicle not entered in ‘Plant’ but is effectively waiting. Is
a Region and to add new, first create using Region Setup (see later)
Gate Region – Entry into premises. If either of wait/gate is blank, then
will pick the other one
Operating Areas and threshold – where the load/unload physically
happens. Processing threshold determines how lon a vehicle must staty
to consider to be loaded/unloaded
Note op areas must be contained in gate and gate in wait

We are not giving screens for other Setup items (except vehicle setup) – but do see Concepts portion to
see how to navigate and use map and thus define new landmarks, new regions, new roads etc.

Now let us look at vehicle setup – While major activities are done by us – but an element of assigning
rulesets, additional read only access to other Organization and alert set for a given vehicle can be done
by you
Now let us look at Planning module
Here you will be able to define Standard Shift timings and then for a given shift, describe the production
plan including driver/vehicle assignment for that shift. You can also provide non-standard timing for the
shift. This in turn is used to drive target items in dashboard (see dashboard later) as well as to identify
shifts in the trips

Planning ->Shift Setup

Provide shift name and start/end timings
You can also days for production and maintenance. This is currently not
used otherwise

Planning ->Shift Plan

The list of Shift Plan (a search for date is planned here)
Note the Copy Shifts button and Copy to Date – you can create a plan
and copy to other dates

Clicking on the link or pressing Create Button goes to Shift Plan Detail

Planning ->Shift Plan->Shift Plan Link

Set up production plan (# of trips/# of vehicles assigned) to
Load/Unload operating station.

For Load/Unload operating station, you can, if the operating station is

mobile you can provide Load Location/Unload Location.

In trip calculation we also provide a name of the operating station

location. This is the name used if provided. Else we will use the name
estimated from map

For non-uniform allocation you can provide start/end time

 List of Drivers, List
of Physical
Locations come
from other setup
screens in Planning.
Not shown here
because these are
quite obvious

Driver assignment

Loading Station & UnLoading Station & Planned # of trucks and What part of time
Location (latter is Location (latter is trips (at least one of this window this allocation
optional) optional) has to be given) applies to

Now let us look at a dashboard screen. While currently the content areas is fixed, you can customize
these in the same ways as report and/or maps.

Stranded vehicle – if a
vehicle is at an operating
station but a vehicle that
came in later got
processed first then
these vehicles are marked
as stranded

Current view of vehicles is available visually (and in text) under Current menu
 Vehicles are color coded. Red
means stopped, Green
means moving at at least 5
KM/Hr. Yellow means the
data is slightly old (> 4hr)
while grey means it is quite
old (>24 hr)

Bring mouse on vehicle to

see more detail

Orientation shows how

vehicle is moving

The reports are available under analysis. Actually there are two types of report – one tabular and the
other enables you to visualize historical movement of vehicles. Instead of presenting screen shots, we
describe the current list of reports

Broadly the reports cover 4 data aspects:

1. Trip reporting – Essentially reports on trips made from loading stations to unloading stations
2. Event reporting – Whenever a rule you have defined is triggered, a record is made. This shows
textual representation of events, timings and location. Two events are predefined:
a. 5 min stoppage
b. Moving (after stoppage)
3. Mileages etc – Distances, speed etc
4. Look-see of raw underlying data – raw data – either for deductive review or interfacing with
external systems

With this view lets us look at the current set of reports available under Analysis menu. All the reports can
be run on daily/weekly/monthly or shift basis
Menu SubMenu Driving Report Description
Data Category
Trip & Movement Reports
Trip Summary Trips Count of trips from source to location by vehicle and by
driver. Various grouping options as well as avg time
spent on different portions of trip
Trip Detail Trips Each trip with timing and time spent in different
portions of trip
Movement Mileage Moving duration, stoppages, max speed, fuel
Summary consumption
Comparative Performance
Trip Trips Comparative dashboard of trips by factors like time,
Performance count and grouped by things like vehicle, driver etc
Movement Mileage Comparative dashboard of movement by factors likes
Performance distance travelled, hours travelled, fuel consumption
rate etc
Movement Summary
Stoppage, Event Shows chunks of start/end point of movement with
movement & intervening stops
fuel
Stoppages & Event Shows only stops
Fuel
Movement & Event Shows only movements
fuel
Suspicious fuel Event Fuel level droppage by more than 10% in between
drops measurement ticks (usually 1 min)
All Event Report Event General purpose report for examining reports. For Mines
a useful report of Garage stops. For bulker a useful
report of out of bound
Raw Logged Data Raw Data
Movement & Event Visualization Raw Data & Visual – see later
event

Movement & Event Visualization is a visual analysis mechanism – it lets you see the events and
movement retrospectively between a time period for selected set of vehicles on the map. You can ‘play’
the movement & event as it happens and at different speeds. This is a powerful tool for spatial analysis –
for example, to see the typical stoppages just look at ‘Stoppage’ event and clusters of stoppages will
appear. Size of circle indicates the duration of stoppage.
Movement of vehicle and events are
shown on map

The map refreshes every 20s and

shows the movement and events that
occurred during that period.

Each refresh occurs at selected speed

– you can choose inifinte in which
case, all the points will be displayed
on map in one shot!