Defining & Using SpotLight Filters

How to create and use SpotLight filters for flashing tags.

Some companies utilize the Spotlight feature, which allows users to signal selected Gen4 tags to flash their LED with a predefined pattern to aid staff in identifying specific sets of vehicles nearby. This feature may or may not be turned on within your portal. If your organization does not use the required hardware or software flag, the spotlight pattern option will not be shown in your user interface.

Spotlight patterns are assigned to vehicles though the Filter option on the Cognosos portal. Enacting spotlight in the field happens from the mobile app; use of the mobile app is covered in the Logistics Mobile App Knowledge Base.

To assign flash patterns to specific vehicles with Gen4 tags, use the Save Filter option after defining the attributes necessary for that filter. Spotlight patterns can be set by standard user roles and higher. Use the drop-down list to set a spotlight pattern for the filter.

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If you select a pattern that is already in use, the system returns a warning (you can still save the filter). Filter Flashlight warning

When the portal detects that one or more vehicle tags may not flash (e.g., dead battery), it will also return a message and indicate the vehicle IDs.

Click Save to add the filter to the list. Choose Cancel if you do not want to save.

The new filter will display in the Filters drop-down list for future use. Even once the filter is saved, use the Clear Filters option to refresh the map (and My Lot). Saved filters appear in the Filters drop-down list in both the Map and My Lot views.