1. Hardware Description 1.1 Front Face GSM Status Indicator GPS Status Indicator Flashing: Searching GSM Flashing: Firmware running signals Light off: Searching GPS signals Light on: GSM fixed Light on: GPS fixed 1.2 Side Face Power Switch SOS Button Press when in an emergency...
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Below is the indication of LED light status of GC-101 When you operate the GC-101, there are 4 different color lights to indicate different status of GC-101. Please refer to below chart for the detail information.
1.3 Bottom Face Power Input Use the chargers provided by SANAV to charge the battery. Cigar Charger Wall Charger 1.4 Charging When power is ON When power is OFF When GC-101 is When GC-101 is charged with power charged with power...
1.5 Rear Face (Battery Cap) Use your thumb to press the Open the cap and move put away the Put in the SIM card in the correct orientation. battery cap and then slide battery. downward to open it.
2. Specifications SPECIFICATIONS Electrics Data Tri Band 850/1800/1900 or 900/1800/1900 Mhz Frequency 1575.42 Mhz Reacquisition < 2sec. Cold < 60sec. TTFF (Time To First Fix) Acquisition time Warm < 35 sec. TTFF GPS Receiver Hot < 10sec. TTFF TTFF Accuracy Position 10 meters RMS without SA Velocity 0,1m/s without SA Power...
3. Function Overview 3.1 General GC-101 is using the GPRS service to upload the RMC sentences containing latitude, longitude, speed and time to an assigned web server. It is specially designed for the intensive tracking applications, such as fleet management and life security.
You can also set up the voice monitoring function in order to overhear surrounding. For the detail setting, please refer to chapter 5.16 for detailed information. Please note this function is only available for GC-101 M version. Applications Fleet Management...
3. Set up the phone book. When either APN or URL is incorrect or GPRS/URL is not available, the GC-101 will not be able to upload the data to the website. In any case mentioned above, the GC-101 will send a SMS instead containing GPS position to the 1 predefined number.
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5. If you do not have the SMS containing the position, please surf to following website and key in your imei code as the 4.1 shown to check out the GPS data. http://www.sanav.com/eric-gga/gprs_read.aspx 6. Click on OK and you shall read the RMC data. If you have the message of “invalid imei code”, please kindly contact us.
SMS from a cellular phone. Key the specific SMS message in your cellular phone as the instruction and send it to the SIM number of GC-101. The setup messages are showed in the following sections.
You can change the ID of GC-101 by following the format below. No space is allowed between the characters. For example, if you send the SMS message shown in the example below to the GC-101, you will change the ID from “username” to “ason”...
5.2 Change Password Use this SMS message example seen below to change the password of GC-101. For example, by following the example below, you will change the default password, “0000” to a new password, “1111”. Setup format:#「username」,「Password」,「Function Code」,「new Password」,「new Password」* Example:#username,0000,2,1111,1111*...
GC-101, the URL “http://www.sanav.com/eric-gga/gprs.aspx “ will be assigned to receive the data sent from the GC-101. Please note that the question mark “?” or any symbol is not allowed to be keyed in behind the URL. The GC-101 will add the necessary symbol(s) on automatically.
The table 5.5.2 shows each confirmation message reply after setup. Situation Message Reply Setup Succeeds [username] + GC-101 phone book is updated. Setup Fail [username] + GC-101 phone book setup Fail! Non-numeric data is input for numbers [username] + Parameter error...
Use this command to set up the frequency of Auto Report. If you send the SMS according to the example shown below to GC-101, you will have an Auto Report Message every 300 seconds for 99 messages. Once the loop is done, you can send a SMS message to update/renew, or switching off it in order to renew it.
5.7 All Parameters Reset to Default Use this SMS message to reset GC-101 to factory default. You can just send the SMS according to the example seen below. It will overwrite all the current parameters to default. Setup format:#「username」,「Password」,「Function Code」* Example:#username,0000,9*...
Note that the message reply shown in Table 5.8.2 will only be sent back to cell phone that sent the SMS to do configuration. The caller’s ID of cellular phone must be activated in order to let the GC-101 recognize the caller ID and...
Setup Succeeds [username] + mail address Setup OK. Setup Fail [username] + mail address setup fail. GC-101 is in Emergency Mode [username] + in emergency, Mail address setting is not allowed. Incorrect password [username] + Password setup Fail! Incorrect username or command format...
5.10 Set up SMTP Server After setting up the E-mail address, you still have to setup a SMTP server so that the GC-101 can use the SMTP server send E-mails. Setup SMTP by following instruction: Setup format:#「username」,「Password」,「Function Code」,「SMTP server」* Example:#username,0000,13,sanav.com* The table 5.10.1 describes the meaning of each segment in the message above.
The table 5.11.2 describes the meaning of each segment in the message above. Text Keyed In SMS Description Start sign. username Default ID of GC-101. If you have changed the Username, please use the updated one. 0000 Default password. If you have changed the password, please use the updated one.
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The table 5.11.2 shows each confirmation message reply after setup. Situation Message Reply [username] + Device is switching to HTTP/SMS mode [username] + Device is switching to Mail/SMS mode [username] + Device is switching to HTTP mode [username] + Device is switching to Mail mode Setup Succeeds [username] + Device is switching to SMS mode [username] + Device is switching to Map Center mode...
Imei stands for international mobile equipment identification. We offer you a command to acquire the Imei number from GC-101 via SMS. Actually, every GC-101 budget has a different default Imei code. You can send the SMS according to the example shown below to check its imei number so as to register to the web server for tracking.
0000 Default password. If you have changed the password, please use the updated one. offpanic Mode offpanic is to deactivate the panic status of GC-101 End sign. Table 5.13.1 The table 5.13.2 shows each confirmation message reply after setup. Situation...
Mode 7 is to activate/deactivate the park mode. Speed Limit Setup: This command is to define the speed limit for Park function. When GC-101 exceeds the speed limit in Park mode, it will trigger the event and start sending report according to the setting.
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Command: #username,0000,16,60,12* Text Keyed In SMS Description Start sign. username Default ID of GC-101. If you have changed the Username, please use the updated one. 0000 Default password. If you have changed the password, please use the updated one. Mode 16 is the Move report interval setting...
Setup format:#「username」,「Password」,「Function Code」,「Lat.」,「N/S」,「Long.」,「E/W」,「Condition」* Command: #username,0000,gf,2458.9741,N,12125.6460,E,500,0~3* Text Keyed In SMS Description Start sign. username Default ID of GC-101. If you have changed the Username, please use the updated one. 0000 Default password. If you have changed the password, please use the updated one.
Command: #username,0000,17,60,12* Text Keyed In SMS Description Start sign. username Default ID of GC-101. If you have changed the Username, please use the updated one. 0000 Default password. If you have changed the password, please use the updated one. Mode 17 is the Geofence report interval setting...
0,1 or 2 0: GC-101 will automatically get in the voice monitoring 1: GC-101 will get in voice monitoring function after waiting for “do” sounds for 10 seconds 2: Voice polling then GC-101 will send a GPS data via assigned router to terminal.
5.17 Activate the Buzzer GC-101 offers a buzzer to alert the user when he is in Emergency situation. The beep sound could be either turned off or turned on. When the SOS key is pressed, the buzzer will start to beep continuously for 20 seconds. This command allows users to enable/disable the buzzer.
5.18 Input TCP/IP Address This function is to input TCP/IP address for TCP transmission. Please note that data will only be uploaded to this TCP/IP address when TCP transmission mode is selected. The SMS command is as following: Setup format:#「username」,「Password」,「Function Code」,「TCP/IP Address」* Example:#username,0000,17, 210.242.12.73* The table 5.18.1 describes the meaning of each segment in the message above.
5.19 SOS Phone Setting While Panic function is triggered, GC-101 will automatically call the SOS phone to the user if SOS phone is set. The command format will be like following: Setup format:#「username」,「Password」,「Sosphone」,「Phone Number」* Example:#username,0000,sosphone,+886933123456* The table 5.19.1 describes the meaning of each segment in the message above.
5.20 Operate Log Function User can use this command to define the log mode of GC-101. There are two log modes can be defined. For the detail, please refer to following explanation and also the diagram of log function logic at the page of 36 and 37.
5.21 Define Log Interval When the log function is set “2” (username,0000,21,2), you will have to define the number of position data. Please refer to following command setting. Setup format:#「username」,「Password」,「20」,「Number of logged times recorded」* Example:#username,0000,20,10* The table 5.21.1 describes the meaning of each segment in the message above. Text Keyed In SMS Description Start sign.
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Operation logic of log mode is set “1”; #username,0000,21,1*...
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Operation logic of log mode is set “2”; #username,0000,21,2* Log data interval is set “X”; #username,0000,20,X*...
5.22 Erase the Logged Data The user can use this command to erase the data stored at the flash. Setup format:#「username」,「Password」,「ER」* Example:#username,0000,er* The table 5.22.1 describes the meaning of each segment in the message above. Text Keyed In SMS Description Start sign.
GPRS/SMS mode it will upload the data to the assigned URL first. However, if GPRS service is not available, it will send the SMS to the predefined phone number instead. In the case of GPRS-only mode, GC-101 will only send the data by GPRS no matter there is GPRS service or not.
6.1 Auto Report 6.1.1. Uploading Auto data to URL when GPS is fixed When execute the Auto Report according to the settings with a GPS fixed, GC-101 will upload the data to your URL. The data format will be like the following.
6.2 Emergency Response When there is GPRS, GC-101 will upload the data to the URL/e-mail. If the GPRS is not available, it will send the SMS instead. Please read Chapter 3.1 for how Panic works. 6.2.1. Uploading Emergency data to URL/e-mail when GPS is fixed...
6.3 Polling Response 6.3.1. Uploading Poll data to URL when GPS is fixed When send an SMS to poll a report with a GPS fixed, GC-101 will upload a data to your URL. The data format will be like the following.
6.4.1. Uploading park alarm data to URL when GPS is fixed When execute the Auto Report according to the settings with a GPS fixed, GC-101 will upload the data to your URL. The data format will be like the following.
GPRMC,095838.000,V,2458.9733,N,12125.6583,E,0.41,79.21,220905,,*30,PARK/UNPK Field Descriptions IMEI The username of GC-101 that is a unique number. GPRMC It is a full sentence of GPRMC including the current Lat/Long, UTC and others. PARK/UNPK This is the event triggers the response. !! Note: 1. When in GPRS or e-mail mode and there is no GPRS service, the report will be sent to the 1st predefined number.
Warranty Time Period and Repair Coverage SAN JOSE NAVIGATION, INC. warrants GC-101 to be free from all defects and malfunctions in materials and workmanship for a period of 12 months from the original purchase date from San Jose Navigation or authorized dealers.
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