
This lecture explains how satellite navigation and IoT devices enable real-time vehicle and asset tracking for fleet management, providing location and usage data and remote control.
Explore the space infrastructure and satnav systems that enable precise vehicle positioning. Explain multi-gnss receivers, data pushers, and communication channels—cellular, satellite, wifi, or bluetooth—that support tracking, servers, and geocoding.
Explore backend tracking systems for fleet management, covering on-premise and cloud deployments, SaaS options, real-time device data, trip replay, geofence alerts, and maintenance scheduling.
Learn how the CAN bus enables real-time two-wire communication among vehicle ECUs and modules, with SAE J1939 in trucks, and how to identify CAN on the OBD-II connector.
Explore GPS tracking devices, their features, and brand examples like Coban TK103 and Teltonika for cars, trucks, motorcycles, and other assets, and learn how to select the ideal unit.
Explore GPS sensitivity, cold, warm, and hot starts, and how almanac, ephemeris, and AGPS data affect time to first fix under varying signal strengths.
Explore basic electrical principles and how atoms, electrons, and electricity power automobile electrical systems, including current flow, charge, and battery potential difference.
Explore how series and parallel circuits govern automotive electrical systems, detailing how voltage splits, current flows, and resistance shape drops, with batteries in series and parallel configurations.
Explore automotive electrical systems, from battery and alternator to five circuits—ignition, starting, accessory, charging, and lighting—and learn about loads, control devices, wiring, connectors, and overcurrent protection.
Identify the automotive earth-return system, using the vehicle body as the negative ground, and apply safe testing with a voltmeter by grounding to exposed metal parts.
Learn how events trigger positive or negative current flow in automotive circuits, turning on brake and dome lights via sensors, relays, switches, and ignition key positions.
Identify automotive circuit wires by testing battery positive and ignition circuits with a multimeter, grounding the negative probe, and tracing the blue wires with tracers using ignition on and off.
In this lesson, I will demonstrate how to install a Coban GPS-303F tracking device on a Mercedes Benz E200 (2002 model). Knowledge gained here is applicable to other vehicles.
Configure the Coban GPS-303F via over-the-air commands to connect to the backend, setting server IP, port, APN, push intervals, security numbers, and enabling data logging with Tracker Manager.
Configure the Coban gps-303f by setting the time, changing the factory password, and defining the center and admin numbers, with optional sd card data logging and monitor mode.
This training will introduce you to satellite-based vehicle tracking and fleet management systems, the IoT devices, sensors, and systems employed in rendering fleet tracking services, modern automotive electrical systems, how to make good installations, fuel monitoring systems, how to work with hosted back-end tracking systems, among others. The course offers thorough explanations on the working principles, while providing detailed step-by-step practical instructions on "the how to". GPS tracker Installation skills are in high demand. Students who complete this course will acquire the hard skills that will enable them install tracking devices on any automobile.
Although the course was initially designed to train installers inhouse, the course curriculum has been revised severally to provide thorough explanations on the working principles of fleet tracking systems, how to evaluate and choose the right tracking system for any area of application, while providing special insights to enable persons saddled with the responsibility of overseeing fleet operations to plan, procure and oversee the deployment of fleet tracking systems in companies of all sizes.
Fuel monitoring systems are gaining popularity among fleet operators, in recent times. In this course you will learn the various ways fuel monitoring can be achieved. Fuel level monitoring is not always about buying expensive aftermarket fuel level sensing units - knowing the available alternatives can save you or your company huge money.
The course curriculum undergoes constant review. I will be adding more contents to the course over time. Once this is done, you will receive an email notification, if enrolled in the course.