BlueFire for Trucks connects to your truck via the BlueFire Data Adapter that plugs into the 9 pin or 6 pin Deutsch diagnostic port of your truck. The Adapter sends J1939 and J1708 truck information to the App via Bluetooth.The Adapter and the App support Class 3 through 8 heavy duty trucks. The Adapter is available for purchase from Amazon.
The BlueFire for Trucks app is free and you can download and run it without the Adapter. This gives you an opportunity to get a feel for the functionality that it offers.
A summary of the features the App provides is given below:
- Multi-Lingual - When the translations are complete the app will be available in Spanish and French.
- Trip Recording - Record information about your trip to compare performance with previous trips.
- Fuel Economy - Shows information to help you get more value from your driving.
- Truck Repair - Shows a multitude of truck information that can help determine the cause of a problem and then help you repair your truck.
- Fault Diagnostics - Shows any and all faults (active and in-active) along with information to help repair them. Allows you to reset the faults after your have repaired them.
- Truck Information - Shows the VIN, make, model, and serial number of the truck, engine, brakes, and transmission.
- Data Logging - Allows you to log truck data at a set interval and saves the data in an Excel .csv file for later analysis.
- IFTA Recording - Records fuel usage within States traveled. Information totaled by State includes duration, distance, fuel used, idle fuel used, engine hours, and idle hours. Detects leaving and entering States that are bordered on Canada and Mexico. IFTA data is stored in an Excel .csv file for downloading via email.
- Remote Diagnostics - Allows a home or office computer to connect to the App and perform the same functions you can do in your truck. This feature is still in Beta and will be available in Q1 2017.
There is also an Open Source API that is available to Xamarin developers. More information is on our website at http://bluefire-llc.com.
Disclaimer - Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.