Tracking engine hours enables you to stay on top of maintenance, lower fuel costs, and understand inefficiencies in your operations. Synthetic Engine Hours provide a mechanism to measure and report on how long a vehicle’s engine is running, even if there are gaps in data capture.
Synthetic Engine Hours provides a backup input for estimating engine hours when engine hours can’t be read directly from the Engine Control Module (ECM). To estimate engine hours, you manually enter the engine hours to enable Samsara to establish a baseline. After entering the hours, the Synthetic Engine Hours calculation is based on when the engine is running.
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Select the Settings icon (
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From within Devices, select Devices > Gateways.
If engine hours are missing for more than one vehicle, a banner will be displayed at the top of the Gateways page, prompting you to add engine hours for Vehicle Gateways.
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Click Add Engine Hours and input the correct engine hours manually.
After you add the engine hours, a baseline is established. Going forward, engine hours are calculated based on engine on/off events and battery voltage jumps, depending on the diagnostics that are available for that vehicle.
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To configure Synthetic Engine Hours readings on AG26 or AG52/53, please follow the steps here: Configure Auxiliary Input for AGs
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