To avoid mechanical damage, it is advised to transport the BOFAN tracker in an impact-proof package. Before usage, the tracker should be placed so that its LED indicators are visible, which show the status of operation the tracker is in.
With superior GPS and GSM modules, PT510 has good sensitivity and stable performance. Especially, PT510 is well designed to work with FMS, which is suitable for a company to establish their own tracking platform to provide real-time tracking service to their customers or manage their fleets.
2.2 Basic Structure Ext. Power(+), Standard:12/24V 1--VCC Power Input Max: 36V , Min: 10.5V 2--GND Ext. Power(-) Black 3—GND Connect to SOS button 4—ACC Input2/ACC Must be connected to vehicle ignition Orange 5—SOS Input1/SOS Low frequency electric effective White 6—In4 Input4 Low frequency electric effective 7—In3...
Back-up Battery work time 8~24 hours depends on preset report interval GSM Frequency GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz GPRS Multi-slot Class 8(4Rx, 1Tx, 5 slot Max.) Support all 4 coding schemes(CS-1, CS-2, CS-3 and CS-4) Maximum download speed is 85.6kbps ·Maximum upload speed is 21.4kbps GPS Chip Ublox6 GPS Sensitivity...
Automatically stop vehicle or activate buzzer/siren when Geo-fence, speed alarm or any other alarm trigger I/O: 5 digital inputs, 3 negative and 2 positive triggering; 2outputs Analog Input: 2*12bits resolution analog inputs 2.5 Application This tracker can be used for fleet management, vehicle rental tracking, taxi management, transportation, and vehicle Insurance etc.
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Second step, connection Basic connection as the following table is NEEDED: Connect the GSM Antenna Connect the GPS Antenna, put Connect the wires to tracker, and the GPS antenna black side also connect red wire to vehicle upside face the sky battery (+), black wire to vehicle battery (-).
GPS module power supply issue, or there is no any data Keep on, don’t flashing from GPS module. Flashing Initialization succeed but GPS signal does not fix (2 seconds ON and 2 seconds OFF) Flashing Device get GPS signal (0.1 seconds ON and 2.9 seconds OFF) Flashing GPS antenna disconnect from GPS module (0.1 seconds ON and 0.1 seconds OFF)
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Time:2014-01-06 11:45:53 Explanation: GPRS means tracker connection FMS platform status ON: means tracker connect FMS platform ok OFF: means tracker connect FMS platform not ok Fail: means tracker connect FMS platform fail EXPW means external power connection status: ON: means tracker already connect to external power OFF: means tracker does not connect to external power Note: when tracker doesn’t get GPS signal, it will reply a SMS starts with “Last”, which means this data is for the last place where the tracker got GPS signal successfully.
4.2 Tracking by FMS platform Please ensure that your SIM card in PT510 supports GPRS connection. If you want to do live tracking on platform, you need strictly to add new tracker, set tracker ID, tracker SIM card APN, FMS server, tracker Port and time interval as below steps 4.2.1~4.2.5.
Example: Sending SMS command 000000APNCMNET to set the tracker SIM card APN. PT510 will reply with an SMS “SET OK, APN: CMNET, USER: PASS : ”. Note: CMNET is China mobile’s APN, no username & password for it. You can ask your GSM operator for their SIM card GPRS connection APN, username and password, if it has user name and password;...
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PT510’s ACC wire to vehicle ignition wire, and send SMS command 000000GTI30,0,0,0,240 to tracker, and then PT510 will update position to FMS very 30 seconds when vehicle ignition is ON, and every 2 hours when vehicle ignition is OFF (30seconds x 240=7200seconds=2hours).
above four SMS commands and 000000RCP to us by email. 5. Accessories 5.1 Optional accessories Relay (12V & 24V) Buzzer Wired Door Sensor Fuel Sensor Sets Temperature Sensor Alcohol Sensor 5.2 Accessories connection u Relay: as below picture, suggest connect to output1 u Buzzer: red wire of buzzer connect to tracker’s red wire for power supply directly, black wire of buzzer connect to tracker’s output2 u Door sensor: one wire of door sensor connect to tracker black wire, the other wire of door sensor...
Please don’t use this feature while car/vehicle with high-speed driving, and we suggest connect relay with fuel control line in your car, Bofan is not liable for any traffic accidents. u Buzzer: ü Sending SMS command 000000OPC2,1 to tracker to trigger buzzer for one time ü...
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If only set the 1st number, PT510 will send SMS and then call to this first number after pressing SOS button. If set the 2nd or 3rd numbers too, PT510 will send SMS to all 3 numbers, only call to the 1 number after press SOS button.
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After setting time zone into tracker, you can get your local time in tracker reply message. NOTE Restart Command <password>RST<Type> Remarks Type=0 or null, to reboot PT510 Type=1 to reboot GPS Type=2 to reboot GSM Reset PT510 to default Command <password>DFT...
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5 means input5 Example 000000AD1<10,Fuel Low,2 After you connect fuel sensor to PT510 AD1 wire, PT510 will send Fuel Low alarm SMS to SOS number when tracker get AD1 data <10%, but this alarm is effective only when ACC on (if you...
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Command <password>SKA<index> Remarks Index = 1, to send shake alarm SMS to SOS number when PT510 shakes = 0, not to send shake alarm SMS to SOS number when PT510 shakes. PT510 with built-in motion sensor to support this function.
Wrong password in your SMS or wrong Write correct password or SMS format SMS format The SIM in PT510 runs out of credit Recharge credit of the SIM card No SIM card Insert working SIM card. Check in phone that the SIM can send SMS message.
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Problem: Reply SMS starts with ‘Last…’ Possible Cause: Resolution: PT510 does not have clear view of the sky Move the antenna of the unit to a location where the sky is visible. PT510 is indoor Make it work in an open area outside...
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