Guide to Game Plan
Access, login and accounts
Power Trip sets up a unique instance of Game Plan for every fleet with its own unique URL.
These instances manage their own accounts, which means you will only be able to login to your fleet’s instance of Game Plan through your unique URL. If you are having trouble logging in or finding this URL please contact your the person in your organisation who is responsible for managing the fleet, they’ll help get you back up and running.
Managing accounts
To add, delete, edit and manage different people’s access to Game Plan and specific vehicle data, head to the User Directory tab on the far-left menu bar.
From this section you can manually add new accounts using the big, highlighted “ + “ button at the top-right of the page or invite people to join via their e-mail address using the smaller, grey user+ button next to it.
Once a user has been created or invited, you can edit their details, permissions and the vehicles they are allowed to see by clicking on their account icon and changing their settings.
Navigating your fleet analysis
Analysis tabs
Game Plan has been built within a customised Directus dashboard. Diectus is an easy to use tool for managing, exploring and visualising data. The most useful part of this dashboard is the Analysis tab. You can find the Analysis tab under the barchart icon on the left-most dashboard menu.
The Analysis tab is a collection of pages that provide visualisations based on your fleet’s data. For example, the first analysis page you will land on is the Single vehicle replacement summary. This page gives you a collection of key insights to give you a quick understanding of any vehicle’s potential to be directly replaced with an electric vehicle.
The different pages in the Analysis section can be explored using the accordion menu to the left, they are organised into different top tier categories based on the type of analysis they provide, and different sub-tier categories based on how many vehicles are included in the analysis (fleet, pre-defined groups, single vehicles)
Controlling analysis pages
Selection controls are present at the top of each analysis page. Adjusting each control will filter the data that is used to fill in the charts, lists and diagrams on the page you are using. The most common control is a date range selector, allowing you to limit the information to travel or parking that occurred between two dates.
When exploring the electrification-themed analysis pages you will also be required to select a ‘replacement EV’. This represents one of the electric vehicles from the selection of vehicles that you are considering procuring for your fleet.
Other common selection controls include thresholds and limits, for example the ‘minimum utilisation distance’ control shown below will set a minimum daily travel of 30km before a vehicle is considered properly utilised.
Tooltips
Most data visualisations in Game Plan will present a small, circular (i) icon in their top-right corner. Moving your mouse cursor over this icon will give you more information about what the chart is displaying.
The Magic Map
The Magic Map feature provides you with a way to explore your fleet’s historical movements on a map instead of charts. This feature combines heatmaps with pins and route paths, allowing you to explore frequent routes, combined travel patterns across multiple vehicles, parking patterns and stop durations that share common locations.
Telematics devices generate a lot of data and displaying it all on a map can be overwhelming, for you and for your computer processors! The Magic Map is designed to give you a broad, fleet-wide view when you are zoomed out, while getting more detailed and vehicle-specific when you zoom in and interact with any location vehicles in your fleet have been to.
Key Magic Map features include:
Pins - Orange pins show where your saved office locations are and blue pins show charging stations belonging to public charging networks. You can toggle these on or off using one of the 4 blue buttons at the top of the Magic Map window.
Inspection tool - Set the inspection radius using the slider on the left-hand menu and then click on a location to view all of the times vehicles parked within that location and to fill the right-hand bar with insights about how vehicles interacted with this location (number of visits, duration, start and end times etc.).
Heatmap - Heatmaps group all the data created by the telematics devices in your vehicles together to give you a quick and easy way to visualise your vehicle’s travel patterns. There are three types of heatmaps available within Magic Map. The Aggregated heatmap, the Driving heatmap and the Parking heatmap.
The Aggregated heatmap groups every location any vehicle in your fleet has parked at together. Locations with more vehicles stopping for longer times appear more read. The Aggregated heatmap can be filtered to only show locations where specific vehicles stopped, but the heat colouring will always be weighted towards patterns from the entire fleet.
The Driving heatmap displays all of the data generated by one vehicle while its ignition was turned On, across the whole map. You can select the vehicle to display on the Driving heatmap using either the filter or select a location with the inspection tool, find a vehicle in the Insights bar and click on the Travel button.
The Parking heatmap is the opposite of the Driving heatmap, it displays all of the data generated by one vehicle while its ignition was turned Off, across the whole map. ‘Hotter’ locations indicate areas where the vehicle spends most of its time, while fainter areas indicate locations that were visited infrequently, or only for short times. You can activate the Parking heatmap using either the filter, or select a location with the inspection tool, find a vehicle in the Insights bar and click on the Parking (P) button.
Insights bar - The Insights bar appears on the right of the Magic Map when you use the Inspection tool to select a location. It displays a summary the activity of all vehicles that stopped within the inspection radius during your selected time period, including the number and duration of stops, and a list of all vehicles that stopped there.
Clicking on the Travel or Parking buttons on any vehicle that stopped within the inspection radius will display that vehicle’s Parking or Driving heatmap, as well as its Stops or Travel paths.
Stops and Travel paths - Accessed through the Inspection tool, Stops and Travel paths show you how vehicles got to each stop they made. Stops are displayed as small, orange circles and paths are displayed as blue lines combined with intermittent arrows to shows the direction of travel.
When viewing the Parking heatmap for a specific vehicle, clicking on a Stop will show you the route taken to get the vehicle to that stop. When viewing the Driving heatmap, clicking on a vehicle’s Travel button will show you all of the routes taken that ended with the vehicle parking within the radius of the Inspection tool’s location you’ve chosen.
Filter - The filter in the left-hand bar on the Magic Map allows you to restrict the results shown on the Magic Map’s features mentioned above. Filters include limiting the map to show specific cars or groups of cars, to show stops of a specific duration, or to show stops that began or ended between specific times or dates.
Create your own dashboards
Game Plan is a highly customisable tool, new analysis dashboards can quickly be created to provide customised insights to your teams, based on their unique needs. To get started creating new, custom dashboards either contact us or take a look at our advanced guide to Game Plan.
Understanding your data
Game Plan is created in three stages, first your telematics data is collected, then it is processed by Power Trip’s analysis and simulation technology and finally it is displayed to you using a customised version of a data visualisation tool called Directus.
Directus provides their own documentation, which you can find at https://docs.directus.io
Game Plan allows you to access all of your data if you wish, however it can be a lot to deal with, so it’s naturally not provided up-front. If you head to the Content tab (the cube at the top of the left-most menu bar) you’ll open the page that lets you dive into the data that Power Trip has processed for you to use in Game Plan.
Managing basic Content
Under the content tab you will see the basic settings for your instance of Game Plan, specifically the views into the data that is used to create your analysis pages, including:
Car Records - Every telematics-connected vehicle that is adding data to Game Plan, or has added data in the past.
Charging stations - A list of the public charging stations visible on your Game Plan heatmaps.
Offices - A list of your companies offices that Game Plan uses for commute and time-spent analyses, and for displaying on your heatmaps.
EV Models - A list of EV makes and models that Game Plan uses to create electric vehicle performance simulations based on your fleet’s travel patterns.
Groups - Use this section to create pre-defined groups of vehicles, which you can then use in the Analysis tab to analyse aggregated data across all of the vehicles in any of these groups.
Each of the above sections is a small database, which you can view and edit within the main Content window. The one you are most likely to edit is the “Groups” section, to create new vehicle groupings or edit existing ones. Please note, if you are using a system such as EROAD or Geotab and Game Plan is synchronising your groups with this platform, any edits you make to groups that are in EROAD or Geotab will be reset when Power Trip next synchronises with them.
Grouping vehicles
To modify a group, simply click on that group and then select “Add Existing” to add or remove vehicles by selecting them in the window that slides in from the right. Do not click on “Create New” as this will ask you to create an entirely new vehicle.
To create a new group, head to the Groups section and click on the blue “ + “ icon located in the top-right of the window. Give the group a name and click on “Add Existing” to add vehicles from your fleet into the group.
Filter
When using any part of the Content section, you can narrow down your search using the Filter options located in the top-right of the Game Plan interface. These filters are tied to the type of data you are currently looking at, and are logic-based.
For example, if you are looking at the “Car Records” data and you want to only see telematics-connected vehicles in your fleet that were manufactured by Toyota, you could use the filter to select “Make”, set the condition to “Equals” or “Contains” and then type in “Toyota” to restrict the Content data to only vehicles with “Toyota” as their make.
Filters are extremely flexible, and therefore can also become complicated, take a look at our advanced Game Plan guide for more information on how Game Plan’s processed data is structured, and some of the essential things to keep in mind when creating complex filters.