What’s new in MyGeotab — January 2025

Welcome to our latest summary of updates to MyGeotab.

January 30, 2025

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7 minute read

Gain insights into driver behavior with the enhanced Safety Center

The Geotab Safety Center has been upgraded to provide a more driver-centric approach to safety management. This means you can now get a more detailed understanding of individual driver behavior and risk profiles.

Previously, the Safety Center mainly focused on safety events linked to specific vehicles. Now, you can easily see how different drivers operating the same vehicle are performing. With the new driver-centric approach, you can do the following:

Predictive collision risk: See the collision risk for your group, assets, and drivers to proactively address potential safety issues.
Fleet performance and benchmark: Compare your fleet's safety performance with other similar fleets.
Asset and driver performance and benchmark: Compare asset or driver safety performance with similar assets and drivers in other fleets.
Risk factors: Identify high-risk assets that need immediate attention due to the following risk factors:
- Harsh braking
- Harsh cornering
- Speeding

This update is powered by a machine learning model that aggregates safety events and attributes them to individual drivers, regardless of the vehicle they use. The model considers a range of critical safety events, including acceleration, braking, cornering, speeding, and contextual data points.

Understanding your safety performance with Benchmarks and Risk Analytics

Benchmarks

In the Safety Center, you'll find three types of benchmarks that help you understand your safety performance compared to other fleets. To make these comparisons meaningful, peer groups (groups with similar characteristics) are used.

For more information on benchmarks, refer to the Benchmarks section of the Safety Center user guide.

Risk Analytics

Risk Analytics gives you an overview of your group or fleet's collision risk compared to other similar fleets. The Average Collision Risk graph shows the trending probability of a collision occurring in your group or fleet in the next 100,000 km or miles. By default, this is based on the last 365 days, but can be customized using the date picker.

For more information, refer to the Risk Analytics section of the Safety Center user guide.

Introducing the new Work Order Management

We're excited to announce that we're replacing the Legacy Maintenance Center in Beta with the new Work Order Management! This update will begin on 22nd January 2025.

✱ NOTE: Work Order Management will initially be in Beta and will be refined based on user feedback throughout January and February.

Work Order Management brings all your maintenance needs into one place. It combines the existing Maintenance Reminders, Upcoming Maintenance, and Maintenance Records into a single, easy-to-use tool.

Here's a quick look at what you can do:

Maintenance Schedules: Allows you to set up recurring maintenance which will automatically generate work requests.
Work Order Management: Provides a space to review all your scheduled maintenance in one place, and act on them.
Work Requests: Shows you all upcoming, and overdue Scheduled Maintenance you set up. It will also show you Data Insights, predictive data Geotab used to determine there may be an issue with your vehicle and need to investigate it further.
Work Orders: Allows you to have a better picture of vehicle downtime, and overall costs for a Work Order.

Migrating to Work Order Management

If you have any existing Maintenance Records, you'll be asked to migrate to the new system. Don't worry, it's easy! Just visit any of these pages:

Maintenance > Maintenance Reminders
Maintenance > Upcoming Maintenance
Maintenance > Maintenance Records

You'll see a banner to migrate to Work Order Management. Click Migrate to transfer all your maintenance information to the new system. You'll need to be a database Administrator to do this.

Banner notification to migrate your maintenance information

! IMPORTANT: Once you migrate, you won't be able to go back to the old system. After Geotab Connect 2025 in late February, all customers will be automatically migrated to Work Order Management.

Where to find Work Order Management

You can find the new Work Order Management feature by navigating to Maintenance in your MyGeotab menu. For more information, refer to the Work Order Management (Beta) user guide.

Dive into Work Order Management in The Road Ahead Webinar

Watch an in-app demo, catch the Q&A with members of the Product Development team, and learn how to connect with these presenters to share your product feedback directly with the team.

Watch The Road Ahead: Work Order Management and Geotab Roadside here.

Order Now program expands to include Marketplace software solutions

Software solutions are now available on Order Now, streamlining access to top-tier fleet management tools integrated with the Geotab platform. In addition to the video telematics and asset tracking solutions already available, now you can purchase from a curated range of software options from Geotab's Marketplace.

Order Now allows you to better access an ecosystem that empowers businesses with choice, flexibility, and confidence, offering direct and easy access to carefully vetted, industry-leading solutions.

How it works

Available solutions

These Marketplace software solutions are the first to launch on Order Now in the USA and Canada, with additional regions to follow soon:


GoAnalytics	Xtract	Tollogic by Commerce Logic

More information

Learn more about the Geotab Marketplace and Order Now here.

Introducing the new Trips History (Beta)

We've listened to your feedback and given the Trips History feature a complete overhaul! You can now track and analyze your fleet's trips with greater ease and accuracy. We're confident that the revamped Trips History feature will provide a clearer, more intuitive, and efficient way to track and analyze your fleet activity. This allows you to make better decisions, improve driver monitoring, and ultimately, save on costs.

Here are some of the new features you’ll notice:

Clear and Organized Data: No more confusion about overlapping trips or multi-day trip durations. The redesigned interface presents information in a clear and organized way.
Easy Trip Identification: Quickly find trips associated with specific drivers or assets. You can also easily identify trips with exceptions without leaving the Trips History view.
Accessible Actions: Important actions like Trip Replay are now prominently displayed and easily accessible.
Powerful Filtering: Robust filtering options allow you to filter trips by group, driver, asset, exceptions, and more, so you can quickly find the exact information you need.

Where you can find it

The Trips History Beta will be released in early February 2024. You can find the new Trips History by navigating to Productivity > Trips History.

✱ NOTE: This feature is initially launching in Beta. We encourage you to provide feedback on performance, missing functionality, or opportunities to enhance ease of use or data points available on the new page.

New user experience for the Assets Details (Beta)

We're excited to announce that the Asset Details page in MyGeotab has been given a fresh new look! This update is designed to make managing your assets easier and more intuitive. This new view is available now!

The redesigned Asset Details page now has a card-based layout that aligns with the modern MyGeotab design. This means you can quickly find the information you need, without having to search through a cluttered page.

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Key improvements include:

Device cards: Each device associated with an asset is displayed on a separate card, providing essential metadata and quick access to key actions.
Organized information: All of your asset configurations and information are grouped into clear, organized cards, such as usage, operational, and key information.
Contextual information: The information displayed is tailored to the asset type. For example, Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) won't show Engine hours or other fields related to Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles.
Simplified device management: We've streamlined the process for removing, archiving, and swapping asset devices with the new Devices & Settings tab.

You can find the new Asset Details page by navigating to your User > Options > Beta features tab > Asset Details > click Save.

Map

New Map Enhancements

We’ve kept this experience in Beta to ensure we’ve addressed your concerns. There are a number of improvements we have been adding based on your feedback. Some enhancements include easier zoom and focus on specific assets, as well as new layer options!

With that being said, we will soon be making this the default view. Stay tuned for more details next month!

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Elevate your asset tracking with these GO Anywhere updates

GO Anywhere has been upgraded to provide enhanced reliability, improved performance, and exciting new features! These updates make it easier than ever to track and manage your valuable assets, optimize utilization, and streamline operations — all within the MyGeotab platform.

! IMPORTANT: If you are using the recently released Beta Asset Details, please note that this feature is currently in testing and may not yet be fully stable.

New versatile tracking modes

GO Anywhere now offers both time-based and movement-based tracking modes. This gives you the flexibility to customize ping rates and data reporting frequency to match your specific needs and operational requirements. Whether you need real-time insights or prefer to conserve battery life, GO Anywhere adapts to your business.

Review your GO Anywhere Battery life remaining

With Battery State of Charge and Estimated Time Remaining, you’ll have clear insights into your tracker’s battery health and lifespan, ensuring reliable location updates for the entire duration you need them.

Battery state of charge in GO Anywhere settings

Updated intelligent power management

Keeping track of your GO Anywhere device's battery life is now easier than ever. The updated power management system features a state-of-charge (SOC) indicator and lifespan monitoring. Smart sleep mode activates during inactivity, extending battery life to 3-5 years! You'll also receive proactive replacement alerts 100 days before the battery is expected to need replacing, ensuring uninterrupted performance.

To avoid confusion between Device battery drain and the previous Battery Drain rule, we’ve renamed the Battery Drain rule to Asset Battery Drain

For more information about the GO Anywhere updates, refer to the Settings section of the Product Guide.

Quickly discover and manage your MyGeotab settings

As a MyGeotab administrator, you rely on a wide range of settings to customize the platform to suit your fleet's specific requirements. To make this process even easier, we've redesigned the settings navigation structure. Starting in early February, you can quickly find and modify the settings you need, all in one place.

This new view has been available in Beta for the last few months, and we’re excited to announce it will be made the default view for all Customers in early February!

Here’s what you can expect:

Streamlined menu structure for faster access to settings.
Redesigned pages with improved readability and clarity.
Standardized tooltips for consistent guidance and support.

You can find the updated settings by navigating to System > Settings.

Improved navigation for Advanced Routing (subscription based)

Simplifying navigation for Drivers

Drivers can now easily switch between Car or Truck Safe navigation, and enable hazardous material considerations, all within the Geotab Drive app. This eliminates the need for a separate navigation service, making route planning and navigation more efficient and user-friendly.

Where you can find it

You can find the new navigation feature by going to Geotab Drive > Advanced Routes > Navigation (BETA!).

Enhanced editing for Route Plans

Planners and administrators now have more control over their route plans with the ability to add appointments or resources directly to an already optimized plan. This allows greater flexibility and adaptability when managing routes. Additionally, a visual indicator makes it easy to identify the navigation type used for each plan.

Where you can find it

You can find the new editing features by going to MyGeotab > Advanced Routing > Route. You can access these features from the Route Plans page, by clicking on the icon to the left of the Plan Name, or by opening a (Draft) plan and clicking Edit > + Add button.