Week of Apr 3 – 12, 2026

Home locations on the live map, VIN decode and vehicle details, device health diagnostics overhaul, breadcrumb trails, system notifications, referral rewards redesign, driver management, mobile UX improvements.

A bumper release covering ten days of shipping — home locations on the live map, automatic VIN decoding with vehicle make and model, a completely redesigned device diagnostics experience, breadcrumb trails behind moving vehicles, structured system notifications, a simplified referral rewards programme, and major mobile UX improvements.

Home Locations

Fleet home bases on the live map

You can now define one or more home locations for your fleet — depots, warehouses, parking yards, or any location your vehicles regularly return to. These appear as markers on the live map, giving you instant visibility into which vehicles are "home" and which are out on the road.

Setting up home locations

Head to Settings > Company to add your locations. The address field now features Google Places autocomplete, so you can search by name or address and get instant suggestions. You can also pick a location by clicking directly on the map. Each home location has a name, address, and configurable radius.

Map layer toggle

Home locations appear as a map layer that you can toggle on or off via the layers panel. The toggle is also available in Settings > Preferences > Map Display, so you can control the default visibility. When enabled, your home bases appear as pin markers that you can click to zoom into.

Smarter Garage detection

Behind the scenes, your home locations are now used to improve the Garage status. When a vehicle is parked near one of your home locations with a weak GPS signal, it's classified as "Garage" more intelligently. This replaces the previous signal-only heuristic with one that considers where your vehicles are actually based.

VIN Decode and Vehicle Details

Automatic VIN detection

The platform now automatically reads the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) from supported OBD trackers and decodes it to populate your vehicle's make, model, year, and engine type. This runs daily — no manual entry required. If you add a new tracker, the VIN is synced within 24 hours.

The decoded vehicle information appears directly in the asset sidebar under the vehicle details section. You can see the VIN, manufacturer, model, year, and fuel type at a glance. This data is also available in the admin panel and feeds into your fleet reporting.

Visual trail behind moving vehicles

Moving vehicles now leave a breadcrumb trail on the map — a dotted path showing their recent route. This makes it easy to see at a glance where a vehicle has been in the last few minutes without opening a full trip report. The trail fades as the vehicle moves, so the map stays clean.

User preference

Breadcrumb trails are a per-user preference that you can toggle in Settings. Once enabled, they appear for all moving vehicles on your live map.

Mobile Experience

The mobile navigation bar has been rebuilt with better spacing, proper safe-area handling for notched devices, and vertically centred icons. The bottom bar stays fixed and no longer overlaps content on any device.

Performance

The dashboard now loads significantly faster on mobile. Authentication checks happen server-side before the page renders, eliminating a multi-second blank screen on first load. Repeated API calls are deduplicated, so switching between views feels snappier.

3D Buildings

Toggle 3D building outlines on the map

A new map layer lets you toggle 3D building outlines on the live map. This is a per-user preference — once enabled, buildings appear as extruded shapes at higher zoom levels, making it easier to see where vehicles are parked relative to specific buildings or warehouses.

Device Health Diagnostics

Unified diagnostics across the platform

The Device Health panel in the right sidebar has been rebuilt from the ground up. Instead of running a separate, simpler version of the diagnostics logic, the sidebar now calls the same health-check service that powers the admin tracker debug tool and the public status-check page. All three surfaces share a single set of diagnostic rules, so they always agree.

Device Identifiers

A new Device Identifiers panel sits at the top of the Diagnostics tab, showing the IMEI, SIM number, hardware model, firmware version, and protocol for the selected tracker. Each field has a one-click copy button — no more hunting through settings to find the IMEI when you need it for a support request.

Data Sources comparison

A new Data Sources card shows the freshness of every data path side-by-side: the live WebSocket feed, the tracking server REST endpoint, and the database record. Each row shows how long ago data was received, with colour-coded indicators. When the sources disagree — for example, the WebSocket shows a recent update but the database record is stale — you can see the discrepancy immediately.

Tracking server verdict

The diagnostics panel now displays the tracking server's own verdict about each device: a traffic-light indicator (green, amber, or red) with a one-line explanation. This is the authoritative assessment from the server that's actively managing the TCP connection to your tracker, giving you the most precise picture of device health.

Smarter device health findings

The health-check system now detects several new failure modes that were previously invisible. Buffered flushes — where a device reconnects and dumps a batch of old data that looks like current driving — are now flagged explicitly. Stuck caches, where the tracking server keeps returning the same stale snapshot, are caught within minutes. And connection issues like data loss, duplicate connections, and idle timeouts are surfaced with specific counts and timestamps.

System Notifications

Structured device event emails

The platform now sends structured email notifications for device events — including power disconnections, freeze events, communication losses, and device restarts. Each notification includes the event type, affected device, and a clear call-to-action with instructions for resolution.

Deduplication and digest mode

To prevent notification overload, the system now deduplicates identical events within a configurable window. If the same device triggers the same event type multiple times, you receive one notification rather than a flood. For accounts with large fleets, a digest mode batches multiple events into a single summary email.

Auto-resolve

Notifications that are no longer relevant — for example, a power disconnection that resolved itself when the vehicle was restarted — are automatically cleared. This keeps your notification inbox focused on issues that still need attention.

Referral Rewards

Simplified reward structure

The referral programme has been redesigned for clarity. Instead of different reward types based on your role (credit, cash, fuel card, gift card), every referral now earns you a fixed amount per asset, split 50/50 between Yipii account credit and a gift card. The more customers you refer, the higher your per-asset rate climbs.

Updated tier ladder

The tier system has been streamlined. You start at Scout and progress through Connector, Champion, and Legend as your successful referrals accumulate. Each tier shows your per-asset commission clearly, with a progress bar toward the next tier. The minimum reward per referral is €50, ensuring that even small referrals are worth your time.

Beacon Management

Overhauled beacon list

The beacon list in the right sidebar has been redesigned with a more compact layout that shows all the information you need at a glance. Beacon UUIDs can now be copied with a single click, detector names are resolved to human-readable labels, and quick actions for reassigning or unlinking beacons are available directly from the list.

Driver Management

Convert users to drivers

You can now convert any user in your organisation to a driver directly from the user management interface. This creates the driver profile, links it to the user account, and makes the driver available for vehicle assignment — all in one step, without needing to create a separate driver record.

Tags and assignment history

Drivers now support tags for flexible categorisation (by team, skill level, shift, or any other grouping). A full assignment history tab shows which vehicles a driver has been assigned to, when, and by whom — giving you a complete audit trail of your fleet assignments.

Tracker Connectivity

More reliable real-time tracking

Significant improvements to the tracking server infrastructure have made real-time position updates more reliable. Connection management has been hardened to prevent ghost writes and silent channel failures, and the system now force-closes stuck connections instead of just logging them.

Improved traffic detection

Traffic status detection has been recalibrated for Maltese road conditions, with tighter speed thresholds, ignition validation, and filtering for vehicles that are simply parked near busy roads. The result is fewer false "In Traffic" statuses and more accurate fleet activity reporting.

Pipeline resilience

The data processing pipeline now isolates bad data from individual devices, preventing a single tracker's malformed packet from blocking updates for the entire fleet. Frozen devices that fail to unfreeze are now handled correctly, and beacons with garbage data are filtered before they can contaminate the cache.

Questions?

If you have questions about any of these changes or need help taking advantage of new features, contact us at support@yipii.com.

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