New: Navigate Between Live and Dashboard by Date
You can now switch between the live view and any historical dashboard date using a new date dropdown in the toolbar — with quick-access buttons for Yesterday and Today.
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The First Derivative
A series of conversations with the restaurants and hospitality teams our customers deliver to.
MongoDB + Let's Encrypt Replica Set Issue: The tlsWithholdClientCertificate Gotcha
After a certificate renewal, our MongoDB replica set stopped talking. The cause was Let's Encrypt's EKU change; the fix was putting tlsWithholdClientCertificate under setParameter, not net.tls.
Do I need real-time routing?
Learn when your business needs real-time routing that adapts to new jobs, cancellations, and delays throughout the day.
Caffeine Trip
We used Intelligent Routing to plan an optimised route visiting the top 10 coffee shops in South Africa, saving over 6000 km compared to visiting them in ranking order.
Corporate Social Responsibility – Thol’ulwazi Thol’impilo
Intelligent Routing supports the Thol'ulwazi Thol'impilo NGO mobile clinics with tracking, monitoring and reporting of farm visits in rural Mpumalanga and the Swaziland border area.
Intelligent Routing Saves and Pays
Intelligent Routing was built to turn a mobile phone into an asset and help users save.
Order Column in Spreadsheets
At Intelligent Routing we often add an Original Order and Processed Order column to spreadsheet data. This post shows a robust formula that avoids REF and VALUE errors when sorting or deleting rows.
Responsive Tableau Geocoding for South African Municipal Wards
We use Tableau for data exploration and reporting. This post shows how to build responsive geocoded visualisations of South African municipal wards without reverting to simplified circle maps.
Meter Reading with Intelligent Routing
You can take a meter reading with photo evidence and send a verifiable meter reading report from your computer to the municipality using the Intelligent Routing app from Google Play.
Additional Uses of Intelligent Routing
You might ask yourself, how Intelligent Routing could be of any value to you if you are not in the transport business.
Intelligent Routing Saves More on a Road-trip in the USA
We compared a well-planned US landmark road trip with Intelligent Routing and saved 494 km and an estimated 8 hours drive time—one work day less on the road.
Optimized Road-trip: 25 SA Towns in Intelligent Routing
In our previous blog post we planned the 25 town road trip manually. Here we use automatic optimisation in Intelligent Routing and get the trip down to 88 hours 48 minutes, saving more than 5 hours on the road.
Road-trip Planning: Visiting the 25 best small towns in South Africa
Recently the 25 best small towns in South Africa article was doing the rounds on Facebook. We look at planning an efficient route instead of alphabetical order, which would take about 308 hours on the road.