What's New in Tracking Server 10.1?

Tracking Server 10.1 includes exciting new features, a greatly enhanced Tracking Gateway, a brand new Tracking Viewer, and an improved Tracking Server SDK.

Key New Features

  1. Tracking Server Web Connector allows your real-time tracking services to be:
    • Served as KML services for consumption by KML-compatible client applications, such as ArcGIS Explorer.
    • Consumed on the Web in CSV and JSON formats.
  2. Client Data Logger allows you to log your real-time data to CSV files for archiving or scenario playback using Tracking Simulator.
  3. Import / Export Configurations feature in Tracking Server Manager allows you to quickly and easily transfer an entire Tracking Server configuration from one machine to another.
  4. Improved Tracking Server Manager user experience:
    • Widespread performance enhancements allow you to administer your Tracking Server faster than ever before.
    • Streamlined workflow allows tracking services to be automatically created and published when creating / importing message definitions.
  5. Generic Input Data Link now supports input dates and times in a variety of formats, including ISO 8601 and standard Esri time formats.

Enhanced Tracking Gateway

  1. Now able to store the last known observation for each track in history, allowing client applications to immediately display all known tracks.
  2. Now able to save network bandwidth and increase performance by sending subscribed clients only features within a client-specified map extent.
  3. Now allows larger sets of message definitions to be transmitted to client applications.
  4. New configuration options allow more observations to be stored in history, allowing client applications to immediately display more tracking features than ever before.

New and Improved Tracking Viewer (Version 3.2)

  1. Now integrated into the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.5, making it easier than ever to integrate your tracking functionality with other ArcGIS features in a single viewer.
  2. Upgraded to use the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.5 and built with Adobe Flex SDK 4.1.
  3. New accordion user interface improves user experience and allows the widget to be more compact.
  4. New feature saves network bandwidth by allowing Tracking Server to send Tracking Viewer only features that are in the map extent.

Other New Features

  1. Improved handling of coordinate systems and projection for real-time data:
    • Data Partition Action enhanced to automatically project real-time data if coordinate systems of source and target message definition are different.
    • Custom coordinate systems can now be added through Tracking Server Manager.
  2. Improved message definition management allows you to explicitly set the time field to be used, if multiple time fields are present.
  3. Improved Tracking Simulator:
    • Text and XML data formats supported by the Generic Input Data Link can now be used with Tracking Simulator.
    • Tracking Simulator now automatically adjusts for the time zone of the corresponding message definition when replacing timestamps in simulated data.
  4. Larger, more complex polygons are now able to be transmitted through Tracking Server.
  5. Data Modification Action now supports concatenation of string data values.

New Samples Added to Tracking Server SDK

  1. New C# Run Command Action Sample allows you to create a server action that automatically executes a command line statement whenever the action is triggered.
  2. New C++ Geofence Tag Action Sample allows you to tag observations with the name of the polygon that caused the location trigger to fire.
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Please refer to the Tracking Server SDK documentation for more details, including other improvements.

8/21/2012