The Job Monitor runs automatically, tracking the real-time workings of field staff and comparing it to your scheduled jobs in order to track the status of those jobs. The Job Monitor deduces when your drivers arrive at and when they complete jobs based on the known movements of the vehicles to which your drivers are assigned.
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The Job Monitor does not support location processing of vehicles shared using Verizon Connect Share.
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If Driver Initiated Status is enabled in the Verizon Connect® WorkPlan™ mobile application, the Job Monitor will not automatically set job statuses. It will instead expect job status to be set manually by the user of the mobile device.
This topic describes, in detail, how the Job Monitor determines when job-related events occur.
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Some of the inferences made by the Job Monitor can be influenced by options you select in the Settings dialog box.
In order for a job to be marked as completed, it must pass through each of the following stages:
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Arrived at Job Site: GPS coordinates indicate that the vehicle has entered the job site boundary, within the allowed arrival time window of the job. This window is based on the scheduled arrival time window (the earliest and latest arrival times), extended on either side of the job by the Job Schedule Allowance time value (set using the "Job Arrival Allowance" field on the Jobs & Routes tab of the main "Settings" dialog box). If the arrival time is outside this scheduled window, but within this allowance extension, the job is marked as either early or late.
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Stayed on Site: The vehicle stayed on site if any of the following three conditions is met: either the vehicle ignition was turned off within the job site, or the vehicle remained at the job site location for longer than the expected Time on Site interval, or the vehicle remained at the job site for more than 10 minutes (this value is configurable by customer support).
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Left Job Site: GPS coordinates indicate that the vehicle has exited the job site boundary.
Job progress is updated continuously whenever a new GPS point is received from the vehicle.
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On arrival, the job status is set to "On Site", and the Arrival Time is set to the first GPS point received inside the job boundary.
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While on site, if the vehicle’s ignition is turned off, the Arrival Time is moved forward to the time of the "ignition off" event.
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When leaving the job site, if any of the three "Stayed on Site" requirements outlined above have been met, the job's status is set to “Complete” and the Departure Time is set to the first GPS point received outside the job site. If the "Stayed on Site" requirements are not met, any previously set "On Site" status and the Arrival Time are both removed.
At its simplest, the time on site is the time from when a vehicle arrives at the job site until the vehicle departs the job site. This might be difficult to determine, however, when there are overlapping jobs (multiple job sites in close proximity to each other such that a vehicle might be within the radius of more than one job site at the same time). To enforce the rule that a vehicle is only on-site at one job at a time, time spent in overlapping jobs is redistributed when a route is completed, based on the relative sizes of each job's actual time on site. In general, jobs are ordered by actual arrival time, and in the case of "ties", by planned arrival time.
The previous job is the last job that the driver completed. The current job is the first incomplete job in the scheduled route after the previous job. Any job that is completed before a job scheduled for earlier in the route will be considered to have been completed in the wrong order. For example, if a driver skips a job and then returns to it later in the day and completes it, that job will be marked “Wrong Order” (because the order the driver is completing the jobs in went backwards at some stage). It is assumed that the driver will continue on the route from the current job forward, and that any skipped jobs will be left incomplete.
There are a number of places in the Verizon Connect® Response™ UI where an estimated time of arrival is shown for a job. These estimates are only calculated for jobs where the driver has an assigned vehicle.
In the Dispatch Job dialog box, this estimate is based on the assumption that the driver departs the current job at the planned time or, if there is no current job, that the driver departs for the new job immediately. This does not take into account any other jobs already scheduled on the driver's route, which might precede the job being assigned. As a result, the ETA that appears once the job has been dispatched might differ from the value shown when you dispatch the job.
The ETA is always calculated assuming that the driver follows the scheduled route, in order, from the current job onward. This means that if a job has been skipped, the estimates for arrival at the rest of the jobs on the route assume that the driver will not go back to complete the skipped job.
Typically, a route is considered to start when a vehicle leaves the initial depot (base location). If there are not reports indicating the vehicle has departed a depot, the route is considered to start when the vehicle arrives at the first job.
A route is considered to be "In Progress" when an arrival at any job site on the route is detected.
A route is considered complete when the last job (return to depot) is completed, the planned time for the entire route has elapsed, and one of the following holds true:
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The vehicle has stopped at the depot (ignition off).
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The vehicle has idled longer than the planned time on site.
When a route is completed, it is no longer monitored. Any jobs with a status are marked as complete and any jobs with a status of en-route are marked as assigned.
If a vehicle starts a new route (arrives at a job of the new route), without arriving at the last job of the current route, or if the scheduled time for the route plus a threshold amount has elapsed, the current route gets a status of Not Complete, and the new route becomes the current route.
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