Surerity Trace Tracking App for Android

Overview

Our tracking app runs on most Android devices with a GPS and an active data connection, communicating your current position (longitude / latitude), time, direction of travel, battery level and changes in direction.

This data is transmitted to our tracking system, and data such as routes, trips, stops, current position and more will be displayed via the web app.

Currently this tracking app and the tracking web app is free for download and use, within reason. Sure Security may at a later stage institute an affordable montly service fee, but you will be given at least 30 days notice of any cost changes.

This app is currently in beta mode, and available for customers to implement with the acknowledgement that Sure Security is not responsible in any way for loss of data, security breaches, or any other issue customers may experience.

Setting up the tool

• Download the app to your phone
• Alternatively, download to a workstation and sync the file to your phone. Usually this will be loaded to your Downloads folder.
• Go to Android settings / Security and enable ‘Unknown sources’ so the app can be installed. Once the app has been installed, disable this option.
• In the download folder, tap on the downloaded file. The app will now install to your device.

• Open the app (tap on Surerity Trace)

• Set up the device
  • Service status must be stopped
  • The Device identifier is a unique id for your device: this must be entired into the Surerity tracking application using an account with the necessary Admin status
  • Server URL: this defaults to the correct server address and port
  • Location accuracy: Medium is default
  • Frequency: this controls the frequency at which a stationary device will transmit it’s position to the tracking server. The default is 300 seconds. For most phones you can try setting this to 15 minutes (900 seconds) if you also set up the distance paramenter
  • Distance (in meters): the phone will transmit its position after the established distance has been travelled. The default is 0, which will disable this parameter. We usually recommend setting this to between 150 and 300 meters for most users, depending on your average speed and desired level of tracking accuracy
  • Angle (degrees): default is 0, which is disabled. Every time your direction changes by more than the specified angle, the phone will transmit your location. Depending on the Distance parameter, we usally disable this parameter. Note that if you walk round with your device, the angle changes constantly and may negatively affect some reports and increase your data usage excessively.
  • For Android devices that will be mounted in a vehicle: You may want to increase or even disable the Distance parameter, if you specify a suitable Angle parameter.
  • Please test a few permutations of the above to suit your needs.
  • Remember that more frequent tracking notifications can improve accuracy and concurrency, but may use a little more data.
  • Once set up, set the Service Status to ON.

Options

We are also developing a ‘hidden’ version of this app that is difficult for the phone user to detect. Please contact us if you are interested.