DAVIS FMS DriveRight Getting Started Guide (8186) - Manual (Page 5)

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Introduction
The DriveRight ® Fleet Management Software (FMS) package allows you to store,
view and manipulate DriveRight and CarChip ® data on your PC. More specifically,
FMS provides tools for sorting, tracking, analyzing and printing data, and viewing
and printing reports for a number of individual DriveRights and CarChips.
This guide is intended to get you up and running with DriveRight FMS in the
shortest time possible.
DriveRight FMS Features
• Supports the following devices: CarChip Fleet, CarChip Fleet Pro, DriveRight
600 E , 600, Trip 500AL, Trip 130AL, and Trip Computer.
• Supports wireless download, which allows multiple DriveRight devices and
CarChip Fleet Pro devices to be wirelessly downloaded at a time.
• Supports the SmartCard System, which allows a DriveRight device to be
downloaded without disconnecting it from a vehicle. The SmartCard System
can also be used to upload information from FMS to a DriveRight or multiple
DriveRights.
• Automatic backup option allows the user to define the number of months of
data kept in the active database.
• A location field in the database facilitates “rolling up” data, making it possible
to manage data from many locations in one database.
• FTP support simplifies uploading data to higher levels in the organization while
preserving location information.
• Sophisticated reporting on driver safety and vehicle usage.
• Works with a variety of popular SQL relational databases: MS Access
® ,
MySQL ® , MS SQL Server ® , and Oracle ® . Installation of MS Access is integrated
into DriveRight FMS. No extra software or licenses are required.
• Password security for data access and program functions.
• GPS data can be exported to a text file in a format which can be imported at a
later time by the MapPoint ® software.
• Trip Maps, Day Maps, and Accident Maps can each be generated in MapPoint
or Google Earth TM applications, or with Google Maps TM if you have Internet
access and a web browser.
• Wizard for adding DriveRight devices to the database.