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Learn how the platform can deliver business insights and how you can configure it
Asset management
Learn how to manage and customize your assets.
Asset customization
Customize the asset properties so that the assets in the application correctly represent your physical assets.
Add custom data
Explanation on how to create custom data channels and on how to update the data via the mobile phone.
Automatically update custom data from an external system
Automatically update custom data from an external system such as an ERP

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Sensolus platform
Learn how the platform can deliver business insights and how you can configure it
- Platform navigation
- Asset management
  Learn how to manage and customize your assets.
  - Trackers and managed assets
    Make sure your trackers correctly represent your tracked assets.
  - Asset and tracker concepts
    Understand the jargon used when taking about assets and trackers: asset tag, third party ID, visibility filter, etc..
  - Asset customization
    Customize the asset properties so that the assets in the application correctly represent your physical assets.
    - View an asset
      Inspect the state and properties of an asset in view mode
    - Edit an asset
      Change the asset settings.
    - Change the asset name
      Specify a custom name for each managed asset.
    - Add an asset image
      Add an image that represents what a specific asset looks like. Use the image and icon library to do so.
    - Add an asset icon
      Add an icon and change the color of the icon to represent the specific asset on a map.
    - Add asset tags
      Categorize and group your assets by assigning Asset Tags to assets that share the same properties.
    - Add asset visibility filters
      Add a Visibility Filter to an asset in order to restrict which users can manage the considered asset.
    - Add an Asset Third Party ID
      Assign a Third Party ID to an asset as an identifier for external (ERP) systems.
    - Add custom data
      Explanation on how to create custom data channels and on how to update the data via the mobile phone.
      - Manually update custom data via the mobile app
        Custom data can be updated via the Sensolus mobile app. We call this sometimes mobile forms.
      - Manually update custom data on the Sensolus platform
        View, add or update custom data for an asset to categorize it or when a particular state for that asset has changed.
      - Automatically update custom data from an external system
        Automatically update custom data from an external system such as an ERP
      - Asset tags or custom data (channels)?
        When you doubt between using asset tags or 3rd party business data channels.
      - Custom data report
        Explanation on how to create a report containing custom date of the trackers
  - Tracker configuration
    Learn how a tracker can be configured to optimally track the behavior of your asset.
  - Asset status indication
    The asset status indicator summarizes the operational status of its tracker or tag. Possible statuses are online, offline, ready for use, sent rate limited or off contract.
  - Maintain your trackers
    Tracker maintenance comprises all possible maintenance tasks during the lifecycle of a tracker.
  - Tracker diagnostics
    Tracker diagnostics give you insights about how a tracker functions in the field, with a focus on the quality metrics related to data communication quality, geolocation determination quality and battery consumption.
  - Tracker bulk operations
    This task explains how to perform a bulk operation on a set of trackers.
  - Tracker status reports
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  - Tracker subscription diagnostics
    Manage the tracker subscriptions of your organization.
  - Asset insights
    Where to find insights on your asset fleet and trackers.
  - Organization tracker diagnostics
    Learn how to better follow up your organizations and their trackers.
  - Tracker diagnostics
    Tracker diagnostics give you insights about how a tracker functions in the field, with a focus on the quality metrics related to data communication quality, geolocation determination quality and battery consumption.
- Infrastructure management
  Learn how to manage and customize your infrastructure (for example, geobeacons or BLE zone anchors).
- Localization introduction
  What do we mean with a tracker location? What is the value of knowing your asset's location? and how are locations calculated on the Sensolus platform?
- Localization for connected trackers
  Learn how the locations of your assets are captured.
- Localization for BLE tag trackers
  Learn about the different components of a BLE tag tracking solution and its configuration.
- Communication
  NB-IoT, Sigfox, 2G, 4G, cellular networks. Explanation of the networks used to communicate over the internet.
- Utilization
  Learn how the utilization of your asset fleet can be monitored.
- Geozones
  Learn how to optimize process flows by getting more out of the location information of your assets by using geozones.
- Flows
  Learn how to monitor the rotations of flows of your assets through the supply chain.
- Maintenance
  Learn how to keep your asset fleet maintained in a timely and optimally way.
- Environmental sensing
  Learn how to follow up the conditions of your assets beyond location and activity.
- Dashboards
  Here you can learn about the different types of dashboard on the Sensolus platform.
- Alerts and reports
  Learn how to be notified in case of anomalies in your business processes and how to extract reports with relevant data.
- Customization
  Learn about the different ways to customize the Sensolus platform to your personal preferences.
- User management
  Learn how to manage users, permissions and security.
- Partner account features
  Learn about platform features only available to Sensolus partner accounts aimed at efficiently serving your customers and managing multiple organizations.
- API Integration
  All explanation on how to integrate with the Sensolus platform.
- 3rd party integrations
  Integrations with devices or platforms and the Sensolus platform.
- General information on the platform
  Everything that is not specifically related to a service but tells you something about the general characteristics of the Sensolus platform and solution
Sensolus Mobile app
Information on the Sensolus mobile app.
Devices
Information on all Sensolus hardware devices
Release notes
Stay up to date with the new and updated features and devices and read the latest updates on our services.
Glossary
Learn to know the most important terms and keywords used on the platform

Automatically update custom data from an external system

Automatically update custom data from an external system such as an ERP

An external system like an SAP system can automatically update a 3rd party business data field of a device or infrastructure via REST API.

Following API's on custom data channels exist: