3BO · MOVE TRACK RECOVER
Field report · August 2026
5 vs 30 vs 60 seconds — resolution vs battery
Three ATC700 units rode the same car+cycle day with identical daily keep-alive, but different On Move intervals. Same route — different path density and drain.
Not long enough for a firm battery conclusion
This parallel soak was only about 74 minutes of movement. BatteryLevel reports in coarse ~5% steps,
so drain rankings between 5 / 30 / 60 s are directional at best. A longer ride plus an overnight parked
(Stop = 86400 s) soak are still required before locking a production On Move interval.
Three legs, one afternoon
Car to Camps Bay, cycle loop to Llandudno and back, then car home — about 74 minutes total.
| Device (CFG move) | Leg | Points | Move median | Battery | Drain | Max speed |
|---|
The path — three tracks overlaid
Blue = 5 s CFG · orange = 30 s · green = 60 s. Filter by leg to compare the same stretch.
Live tracks
Battery and spacing
Aligned on movement, not clock time
Battery % is plotted against elapsed minutes from movement start so the three CFGs
(and a prior 1 s maxres car segment) share the same X-axis.
Teltonika reports battery in coarse ~5% steps — so 30 s / 60 s lines can sit on one step for a while
even while the pack is still draining. Point counts are lower at longer intervals (sparser tracks), not missing legs.
Battery % vs elapsed move time
Median move spacing (overall)
Drain %/h — overall and by leg
Method notes
Shared setup
All three units used
daily_keepalive with On Stop save/send = 86400 s (one ping per day while parked).
On Move was the only variable: 5 / 30 / 60 s. Static Navigation stayed enabled.
Observed ≈ 2× configured move interval
Teltonika high-priority Codec 8 records often land at roughly double the configured On Move period in the field
(same pattern as our 1 s maxres soak). Treat CFG as a floor, not a guarantee.
Units …1100 and …7065 may show imei_validated: false in server logs; AVL positions and battery readings
were still usable for this report. On Stop keep-alive at 24 h was not exercised in this short window — a future parked soak will measure it.