On-board temperature sensor

Some trackers have an embedded temperature sensor. Here it is explained how this works.

On-board temperature sensor

Some of our trackers provide internal temperature sensing. This means there is a temperature sensor inside the tracker. With this sensor you measure the temperature closely around the tracker.

This is the easiest (and cheapest) way to measure temperature. You don't need to buy and install extra BLE sensors, just need to activate the sensor on the device via the tracker profile. Be aware that your tracker should be on the Professional subscription plan to get the temperature information.

The sensor information is shown in the same way for on-board and external BLE sensors.

On-board temperature sensor on TRACK 1101

The TRACK 1101 contains an embedded temperature sensor. By default this sensor is non-active and the temperature inside the tracker is not monitored.

If you activate the sensor you can choose between different way of reporting the temperature. Each setting has a different impact on the battery lifetime of the tracker, so be careful when selecting your preferred configuration.

The configuration of the temperature sensor can be done in the tracker profile settings.

A sensor configuration contains different parameters:
  • measurements: how often should there a temperature measurement be taken?
  • sending period: how often and when should the temperature be send to the cloud?
    • periodic sending: send the temperatures in groups (or in an aggregated way) after a certain period of time
    • trigger based sending: send the temperature as fast as possible after a certain threshold is exceeded (for example, sent an alert when the temperature is higher than 60 degrees C).
    • delta based sending: send the temperature as a relative threshold is exceeded (for example, sent an alert is sent if the next value is at least 6 degrees higher then the last one).
  • measurement aggregation:
  • aggregation function: if a set of temperature measurements are taken and we don't want all the measurements to be sent to the cloud, how should the data be aggregated before sending it to the cloud?
    • average: calculate the average of all values monitored into one value when sending
    • maximum: calculate the maximum value of all values monitored when sending
    • minimum: calculate the minimum value of all values monitored when sending
    • last monitored value: take the lst value of all values monitored when sending