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Fleet overview: cellular units and fleets

One page shows the whole estate — unit counts, firmware currency, quiet units — plus the fleet mapping that lets your cellular units enrol themselves.

The Fleet overview page opens with the estate at a glance: how many units the organization has (cellular, with any legacy Wi-Fi units still in service counted separately), which firmware versions they are running against the current published release, how many have been quiet for more than a day, and how many cellular units are reporting weak signal or low supply voltage. Each of those four tiles is clickable — it opens the list of exactly the units it counts, each linking to its unit page, with firmware, signal, voltage and last-seen time alongside.

At any scale, store Wi-Fi is the hardest part of the install: passwords nobody has, guest networks that expire, IT policies that vary per franchise. Cellular removes it — the unit brings its own connection and needs nothing from the building but power.

Cellular units are grouped into a fleet, and the fleet is mapped to your organization once. After that, a unit that powers on anywhere in the world reports in, is recognized as yours, and appears on your dashboard waiting to be assigned to a store.

  • No pairing code, no setup network, no on-site configuration.
  • Store network changes can't strand a cellular unit.
  • Data is included with your subscription — there is no per-unit data charge. A unit syncing on the normal schedule uses a small fraction of its allowance per year.
  • Store Wi-Fi is optional. Where a store's own network reaches a mounting point better than LTE does, enter it once on the store's page and the units there prefer it, with cellular behind it.
Read next: Store Wi-Fi: an optional preferred network, with cellular behind it →
Cellular units batch their readings and deliver them on a schedule rather than one at a time. So the dashboard shows "last synced" rather than a live figure — the unit is still measuring continuously and still showing the level on its own screen at the store.
Read next: What "offline" means for a cellular unit →

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