Vehicle Systems GPS103AB User manual

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GSM/GPRS/GPS Vehicle Tracker
Model A/B User Manual
Preface
Thank you for purchasing the tracker. This manual shows how to operate the
device smoothly and correctly. Make sure to read this manual carefully before
using this product. Please note that specification and information are subject to
changes without prior notice in this manual.
Any change will be integrated in the latest release. The manufacturer assumes
no responsibility for any errors or omissions in this document.

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Contents
1. Function Introduction .........................................................................................................................................4
2. Applications........................................................................................................................................................5
3. Hardware Description.........................................................................................................................................5
4. Accessories .........................................................................................................................................................6
5．Specifications....................................................................................................................................................7
6. Operating Instructions.........................................................................................................................................7
6.1 Terminal Installation ....................................................................................................................................8
6.2 SIM CARD Installations ..............................................................................................................................9
6.3 Turn on the Tracker Device..........................................................................................................................9
6.4 GSM/GPS LED Indicator...........................................................................................................................10
6.5 Initialization ...............................................................................................................................................10
6.6 Change Password .......................................................................................................................................10
6.7 Authorization..............................................................................................................................................11
6.8 Single Locating...........................................................................................................................................12
6.9 Auto track continuously .............................................................................................................................12
6.9.1 Track with limited times upon time interval: ......................................................................................12
6.9.2 Track with unlimited times upon time interval: ..................................................................................13
6.9.3 Smart track upon time and distance interval: ......................................................................................13
6.10 Turning points update automatically........................................................................................................14
6.11 GPS drift suppression...............................................................................................................................14
6.12 Exact street address ..................................................................................................................................14
6.13 Location based service (LBS) / Cell-ID Locating. ...................................................................................15
6.14 Monitor.....................................................................................................................................................15
6.15 Data logging.............................................................................................................................................16
6.16 Data Load.................................................................................................................................................17
6.17 Forward the third parties’ message...........................................................................................................17
6.18 SIM card Balance Inquiry ........................................................................................................................17
6.19. Alarms .....................................................................................................................................................18
6.19.1 Low battery alarm.............................................................................................................................18
6.19.2 Power off alarm.................................................................................................................................18
6.19.3. GPS blind Spot alert.........................................................................................................................19
6.19.4 SOS...................................................................................................................................................19

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6.19.5 Geo-fence..........................................................................................................................................19
6.19.6 Multi-area management.....................................................................................................................20
6.19.7 Movement alarm ...............................................................................................................................21
6.19.8 Over speed alarm...............................................................................................................................22
6.19.9 Accident alarm (Option): ..................................................................................................................22
6.19.10 ACC working alarm........................................................................................................................22
6.19.11. Fuel alarm ......................................................................................................................................23
6.20 Cut off the Oil and Power System............................................................................................................23
6.21 Arm...........................................................................................................................................................24
6.22 Disarm......................................................................................................................................................24
6.23 Function of Remote Controller (Option, for model B ONLY).............................................................25
6.24. Alarms under Arm State..........................................................................................................................25
6.24.1 Door alarm........................................................................................................................................25
6.24.2 Shock Sensor alarm...........................................................................................................................25
6.24.3 ACC alarm........................................................................................................................................26
6.25. Silent Mode.............................................................................................................................................26
6.26. Alarm without GSM network service......................................................................................................27
6.27 Check the Vehicle State............................................................................................................................27
6.28 Reset Hardware ........................................................................................................................................27
6.29 Sleep Mode...............................................................................................................................................28
6.30 Check IMEI..............................................................................................................................................28
6.31 Terminal (local) Time Setting ..................................................................................................................28
6.32 TCP/UDP switch......................................................................................................................................28
6.33 Configure parameters by USB..................................................................................................................28
6.34 GPRS Setting............................................................................................................................................29
6.35 Less GPRS traffic.....................................................................................................................................31
6.36 Activate "Fuel" value in GPRS data.........................................................................................................31
6.37 Web platform and mobile APP instructions.............................................................................................31
7．Cautions........................................................................................................................................................32
8．Faults & the Solutions...................................................................................................................................33

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1. Function Introduction
1.1 This tracker is a new product based on the GSM / GPRS network and GPS
satellite positioning system, which set multiple functions of security,
positioning, monitoring surveillance, emergency alarms and tracking in its
entirety. It can track and monitor remote target by SMS or internet.
1.2 Features
1.2.1 Support both GPS & LBS (Location based service).
1.2.2 Support SMS/GPRS/Internet Network data transmission
1.2.3 Support GPRS on-line and GPRS re-connected automatically if
GPRS drops
1.2.4 Support SMS / GPRS dual-mode switching
1.2.5 Support configuration by remote terminal.

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1.2.6 Support for point-to-point, point to group, group-to-group
monitoring.
1.2.7 Set multiple functions of security, positioning, monitoring surveillance,
emergency alarms and tracking in its entirety.
2. Applications
Used widely for vehicle and other moving objects tracking.
3. Hardware Description
①GSM Antenna connector ⑦Shock sensor port
②SIM card slot ⑧Harness Port

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③SIM card slot Pop-up switch ⑨GSM/GPS LED
④MicroSD slot ⑩Backup battery switch
⑤Monitor microphone jack ○ 11 Remote controller antenna
⑥GPS Antenna connector (Optional for Model B only)
4. Accessories
NO.
PHOTOES
NAME
NOTE
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GPS Antenna
2 meters
2
GSM Antenna
2 meters
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Microphone
1.5 meters
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Harness
10PIN
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Relay
12V/40A to 24V/40A
according to vehicles

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6
Shock sensor
Option for both model A
and B
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Siren
Option for both model A
and B
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Remote controller
Option for model B
ONLY
5．Specifications
Content
specifications
DIM.
83*54*26mm
Weight
120g
Network
GSM/GPRS
Band
850/900/1800/1900Mhz
GPS Sensitivity
-159dBm
GPS Accuracy
5m
GPS Start time
Cold status 45s
Warm status 35s
Hot status 1s
Voltage of car power
system
12 V -24V
Backup battery
Chargeable 3.7V500mAh Polymer Li-Battery
Storage Temp.
-40°C to +85°C
Operation Temp.
-20°C to +65°C
Humidity
5%--95% non-condensing
6. Operating Instructions

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6.1 Terminal Installation
6.1.1 Please ask the qualified engineers to install it.
6.1.2 Do not install it in an environment which is over GSM performance index,
and please pay attention to fix the antennas in an appropriate position
with good signals.
6.1.3 Pay attention to make installation location preventing water and dust.
6.1.4 Find the 10 PIN harness and insert it into the corresponding holes of the
products, and connect the wires with the original car circuit showing
below:
Wiring diagram
Note: The orange wire can be connected to the original car horn; it can also
be connected to the siren you buy with the tracker. (Siren is Option)

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6.1.5 Knowing about the type of the door trigger is positive or negative trigger.
Please connect the green wire to the door control circuit if it is positive,
and connect blue wire if it is negative.
6.1.6 Please put SOS button at the place driver can touch.
6.1.7 Insert the shock sensor plug into the sensor jack. (Shock sensor is Option)
6.1.8 Insert the external monitor Microphone into the monitor jack.
6.1.9 Connect the GPS and GSM antenna to the right connector, and find an
appropriate place and fix the antennas to make sure it receive signals well.
6.2 SIM CARD Installations
6.2.1 Use a tweezers or a sharp thing to touch the SIM CARD popup switch, the
SIM CARD slot will pop up, take out the SIM card slot and put SIM card
in it. And then put the SIM card slot back to its original position after
confirm the SIM card in the right place.
6.2.2 Please make sure the SIM card is for GSM network and able to execute
the function of incoming calls display, no calls can be diverted and the
PIN code is locked. The SMS format must be TXT format, and can’t
recognize the PDU format.
6.3 Turn on the Tracker Device.
6.3.1 Connect the positive and negative wire, red and black ones, with 12V or
24V car power system, wait for 1 minute after connecting power to wait
tracker works normal, and then turn on the backup battery switch.

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6.4 GSM/GPS LED Indicator
6.4.1 Red LED indicator on: No GSM network signals.
6.4.2 Red LED indicator flashes fast (one time each second): GSM Network
signal is normally, and tracker works under GSM mode.
6.4.3 Red LED indicator flashes slowly (one time each three second): Tracker
works under GPRS mode.
6.4.4 Green LED indicator on: GPS signal is normal.
6.4.5 Green LED indicator off: No GPS signals.
6.5 Initialization
Send SMS “begin+password” to the unit, it will reply “begin ok” and
initialize all the settings to default factory settings.（default password:
123456）
For example: send SMS “begin123456”, it will reply “begin ok”. (No
quotation marks“” when sending all the SMS)
6.6 Change Password
6.6.1 Send SMS “ password+old password+space+new password” to the unit to
change the password.
For example: send SMS “password123456 888888” to the unit. If
succeeded, “password ok” will reply to your cell phone from the device
tracker.

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6.6.2 Be sure to keep the new password in mind, you have to upload the
software to restore the original setting in case of losing the new password.
6.6.3 Attention: Make sure the new password is in 6 digits Arabic numbers, or
else the tracker cannot recognize the password.
6.6.4 When reading this user manual, you will notice that we have used "+" and "space" between some
words;"+" between two words means they should be written together as one word and "space"
between two words means you should leave one character space between two words.
6.7 Authorization
You must setup the authorized phone number before using SOS, geo-fence
alarm, etc. Up to 5 numbers can be authorized.
6.7.1 Call the tracker for 10 times continuously and get its position, then it will
save the cell phone number as the authorized number automatically. and
reply “add master ok”.
6.7.2 Authorization: Send SMS “admin+password+space+cell phone number”
to set up an authorized number, the other authorized numbers should be set
by the first authorized number, if the number is successfully authorized, the
unit will reply “admin OK” by SMS.
6.7.3 Delete authorization: Send SMS “noadmin+password+space+authorized
number” to delete the authorized number.
6.7.4 If you want to track the target when it enters into another country, you must add the country code
before the cell phone number. You should authorize your number in international format as follows:

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“admin123456 008613322221111” to tracker to set 13322221111 as an authorized number.
6.8 Single Locating
6.8.1 If there aren’t any authorized number set-up, it will reply all calls with a
location report; if there are authorized numbers set-up, then it will not
respond when an unauthorized number calls it.
6.8.2 If you call it from authorized phone number, it will hang up and report a
real-time location as below:
*When lost fix to satellites, it will track by LBS / CELL-ID. And the SMS will
include two positions:
-GPS coordinates of the last known position.
-LAC code. Open www.gpstrackerxy.com find “manual track”, and put the received code in LAC and
Cell-ID fields to location by LBS technology.
6.9 Auto track continuously
6.9.1 Track with limited times upon time interval:
Send SMS command “fix030s005n +password” to the tracker device, it

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will report the latitude & longitude at intervals of 30 seconds for 5 times.
(s:second, m:minute, h:hour). This command set must be in 3 digits and the
maximum value is 255.
e.g. fix030s005n123456
6.9.2 Track with unlimited times upon time interval:
Send SMS “fix030s***n+password” to the tracker device, it will reply the
latitude & longitude continuously at interval of 30 seconds.
Note: the interval must not less than 20s.
e.g. fix030s***n123456
6.9.3 Smart track upon time and distance interval:
6.9.3.1 Please set "track with unlimited times upon time interval" before this
function, and send "distance+password+space+distance", tracker will
reply "Distance ok", and then tracker will locate upon both the pre-set
time and distance.
e.g. Send "distance123456 0050", it means distance is 50 meters; the
number must be 4 digitsArabic numbers.
6.9.3.2 Set this function on web server: Set time interval first and then distance
interval, tracker will locate upon the time and distance.
6.9.4 Cancel: Send SMS “nofix+password” to the tracker device to cancel the
“auto track”.
e.g. nofix123456

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6.10 Turning points update automatically
6.10.1 The tracker will update the positions automatically to web server
once the vehicle changing driving direction over pre set angle value to form
a smooth trajectory consistent with the actual road, this function is only
effective in GPRS mode.
6.10.2 Send "angle+password+space+angle" to tracker, it will reply" angle ok".
e.g. angle123456 040
6.10.3 The angle must be 3 digits Arabic numbers, default angle value is 30
degree.
6.11 GPS drift suppression
6.11.1 This function is deactivated as default, send "suppress+password" to
tracker, it will reply" suppress drift ok". The GPS data stop updating if
vehicle is not driving (ACC is OFF) and latitude and longitude always
keep same, and GPS data updates automatically when vehicle is moving.
e.g. suppress123456
6.11.2 Cancel: send "nosuppress+password" to tracker, it will reply" nosuppress
ok ".
e.g. nosuppress123456
6.12 Exact street address
6.12.1 You must set up the APN of your local GSM network for the SIM card in
tracker first before using this function, if there is user name and

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password for GPRS login, Please refer to 6.34.1 and 6.34.2 to configure
the APN, user name and password for GPRS login.
6.12.2 After configure the APN, send "address+password" to device, it will
reply SMS including real street/address name. For example: No.113,
Guankou 2nd Rd, Nantou, Nanshan district, Shenzhen, Guangdong,
china.
e.g. address123456
6.13 Location based service (LBS) / Cell-ID Locating.
If the tracker cannot establish a solid GPS Fix, it will calculate its location using Cell-ID GSM
locating, Location reports will include the GPS coordinates of the last known positions as well as a
LAC code, Entering the LAC code to the “Manual Track” menu of web tracking platform
www.gpstrackerxy.com will enable you to see the tracker’s current location. You can also send
command “address+password” to the tracker to request exact address, track will automatically
switch to tracking by LBS in GPRS mode. Accuracy of LBS depends on the distance to the nearest
GSM Network Cell Tower or Base Station.
Note: This feature can be used normally in most areas according to the signal of GSM network. It may not
be available in some areas.
6.14 Monitor
6.14.1 The command to switch between Track and Monitor are “tracker”and
“monitor”.
6.14.2 The default mode is “track”(Track mode).
6.14.3 Send SMS “monitor+password” to the unit, and it will reply “monitor
ok!” and switch to “monitor”mode.
e.g. monitor123456
6.14.4 Send SMS “tracker+password” to the unit, it will reply “tracker ok!” and

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restore to “track” mode.
e.g. tracker123456
6.15 Data logging
6.15.1 Auto logging：When the tracker device lost GSM signals or fall offline
from GPRS, tracker will log the tracking position and alerts automatically
in the SD card on the basis of the pre-set condition, when GSM signals
get back, all the event alerts will be auto-sent to the authorized numbers
or monitoring platform (server), but the logged tracking data should be
loaded to the monitoring platform via SMS command.
6.15.2 Logging upon times: Send SMS: “save030s005n+password” to the
tracker unit, it will reply “save ok”, and will log the lat, long locations
every 30 seconds for 5 times. (S: second, m: minute; h: hour).
6.15.3 Multi-logging：Send SMS:”save030s***n+password” to tracker device,
it will reply “save ok”.
6.15.4 Logging Clearance: send SMS: “clear+password” to tracker device, it
will reply “clear ok”.
6.15.5 Cancel logging: Send SMS “nosave+password”, e.g. nosave123456
6.15.6 Logging Volume: It depends on the capacity of the SD card inserted in
the tracker device.
6.15.7 The logged data in SD card can be copied to computers through card
reader, and then the data route can be checked by importing data in the
menu “Data Import”of web platform www.gpstrackerxy.com

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6.16 Data Load
6.16.1 Current date Load: Send SMS: “load+ password” to tracker device, it
will reply: “load ok” if the device is working well under GPRS mode; if
not, it will reply “load fail! Please check gprs” that means device does not
work under GPRS mode.
6.16.2 Specified date Load：Send SMS: “load+ password+ space+ year month
date” to tracker device, it will reply: “load ok” and load the tracking data
to the monitoring platform upon the valid time you choose. For Example:
send SMS: “load123456 20110425” to the tracker device, means to load
the tracking data of 25th April 2011 to monitoring platform.
6.17 Forward the third parties’message
6.17.1 Send SMS "forward+password+space+third parties phone number" from
authorized phone number, tracker will reply"forward ok", and supports 1
third parties phone numbers at most.
For example, set the phone number of the service provider of the SIM card
in the tracker, when charge remind message coming in, tracker will
forward it to authorized phone number.
6.17.2 Cancel: Send SMS command "noforward+password".
6.18 SIM card Balance Inquiry
Send SMS command "balance+password+space+carrier’s phone

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number+space+code" to tracker, it will forward the code to carrier’s phone
number and return the balance message received from carrier’s phone
number.
Take china mobile for example, china mobile is one of carrier in china,
mobile users can send “ye” to china mobile number 10086, and 10086 will
send user’s balance back, following is an illustration how this function
works.
6.19.Alarms
6.19.1 Low battery alarm
6.19.1.1 Send SMS “lowbattery+password+space+on”, it will send SMS “low
battery+latitude/longitude”to authorized numbers 2 times in total in 15 minutes
interval when voltage of battery is going to be about 3.55V.
6.19.1.2 This function activates as default, send SMS
“lowbattery+password+space+off”to deactivate.
6.19.2 Power off alarm
6.19.2.1 Send “extpower+password+space+on”to activate, it will send SMS “power
alarm+latitude/longtitude”to authorized numbers every 3 minutes when external power is cut
off.
6.19.2.2 This function activates as default.
Cancel: Send SMS “extpower+password+space+off”to deactivate it.
Send balance back
Mobile
balance123456 10086 ye
Tracker
Received and execute
Send ye out to 10086
10086(China mobile)
Received ye from number in
the tracker and process
Received Balance message
Forward balance message to mobile
phone

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6.19.3. GPS blind Spot alert
6.19.3.1 This function deactivates as default, send SMS “gpssignal+password+space+on”, it
will send alert SMS “no gps+last valid latitude/longitude before lost signal”
6.19.3.2 Send SMS “gpssignal+password+space+off”to deactivate.
6.19.4 SOS
Long Press the SOS button for 3 seconds（For model B, press button on
remote controller for 3 seconds）, the tracker device will send SMS “help
me!+lat./long.”to all the authorized numbers at interval of 3 minutes. It
will stop sending such a SMS when any authorized number reply SMS
“help me!” to the tracker.
6.19.5 Geo-fence
Set up a geo-fence for the tracker device to restrict its movements within a
district. The unit will send SMS to the authorized numbers when it goes out
of this district.
Set up: When the unit stays immobile in a place for 3-10 minutes, the user
can send
SMS“stockade+password+space+latitude,longitude;latitude,longitude” to
unit to set the restricted district. In case of breach, it will send SMS
“stockade!+ latitude & longitude” to the authorized numbers at interval of 3
minutes.

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Remark: The first latitude & longitude is coordinate of the top left corner of
the Geo-fence, while the second latitude & longitude is the coordinate of the
bottom right corner, it will alarm at interval of 3 minutes.
Cancel: Send SMS “nostockade+password” to deactivate this function.
6.19.6 Multi-area management
6.19.6.1 Set Area
Send SMS command
"area+password+space+latitude,longitude+space+areaname,distanceM" to
tracker(distance unit: M for meter, K for kilometer), it will reply "area01
ok".
Example: Send "area123456 22.353648,113.543678 school,800M".
Note: 5 areas at most and the distance between two points can't be less than
the total distance in the 2 commands, and different areas can't cover each
other.
6.19.6.2 Delete areas
Send SMS command:"noarea+password+space+area name", tracker will
reply:"noarea ok".
6.19.6.3 Rename and set distance
Send SMS command "rename+password+space+old name;new