Setting up iPulse

Setting up iPulse

iPulse is a presence management system that is used to track your employees and equipment within an area.

Adding Pulse Locations

Adding Pulse Zones

Activating Pulse Zones

Adding Pulse Entities

Deactivating Pulse Entities

iPulse is an add-on feature.  To add iPulse to your Janitorial Manager account, contact your Sales Representative or Account Manager.

Adding Pulse Locations

1. Navigate to Customers > Manage Locations.
2. Select the Edit Pencil in the Actions column for the desired location.
3. Select the Pulse Location checkbox.
   
4. Save the page to confirm changes.

Adding Pulse Zones

Pulse Zones are defined areas at a Location.

1. From the desktop site, navigate to Tools > Manage Pulse Zone.
2. Select + Add Pulse Zone.
3. Select the Customer and Location.
4. Configure the Pulse Zone to an Area.
5. Select Save to add the Pulse Zone

Activating Pulse Zones

Activating Pulse Zones signals Janitorial Manager to begin gathering information for that area.

1. Navigate to Tools > Manage Pulse Zone.
2. Select the Activate button in the Actions column.

Adding Pulse Entities

Pulse Entities, or iBeacons,  are the hardware used to track an employee within a Pulse Zone.

1. Navigate to Tools > Manage Pulse Entity.
2. Select + Add Pulse Entity. 
3. Add the required information:
   • Employee - The employee that the Pulse tag belongs to.
   • UUID - This is the unique identifier for the hardware, found on the back of the tag.
     • UUIDs added with the improper format will be noted with an exclamation mark (!).
       
   • Major - On the hardware tag, this is the number before the hyphen.  In the example '1-93753', 1 is the Major.
   • Minor - On the hardware tag, these are the numbers after the hyphen.  In the example '1-93753', 93753 is the Minor.
4. Select Save to add the Pulse Entity. 

Deactivating Pulse Entities

If a Pulse Entity becomes deactivated, Janitorial Manager will no longer record the tag's location information.

1. Navigate to Tools > Manage Pulse Entity.
2. Select the Deactivate button in the Actions column.

For more information, or to send in a request to the Janitorial Manager support department, use the red 'Help' button in the bottom right corner of any Help Desk article.