Application Note
Activation of Premium-Features
for FOX3-2G/3G/4G andBOLERO40 SeriesPart Number APP-0024
Revision A October 2019

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Revision History
DateRev.

CommentsOctober 2014

1.0.0

Initial version.

1.0.1

Unnamed: PAID-FEATURES to PREMIUM-FEATURES

December 2018

1.0.2

Added BOLERO40 series

October 2019

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Initial Lantronix document. Added Lantronix document partnumber, logo, contact information, and links.

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Table of Contents

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ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT ......................................................... 5

1.1 What is required to activate a PREMIUM-FATURES? .................................... 5
1.1.1 Activating PREMIUM features ...................................................................... 6Activation of Premium-Features4

1 ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
This application note provides information how to activate PREMIUM features in the ALV firmware
2.11.x and higher.
This document is applied the following PREMIUM features:• ECO DRIVE GPS: ECODrive is a feature based on GPS only. ECOdrive enables fleet managers
and drivers to always keep track of current fuel consumption and driving style for helping
them analyse to improve driving efficiency.
•AES128 (Advanced Encryption Standard): AES128 is the Advanced Encryption Standard, aUnited States government standard algorithm for encrypting and decrypting data that offersa higher level of security over GPRS / TCP using 128-bit group encryption with 128 key length.

•INDEXED HISTORY: The indexed history feature enables reading of specific number of lines inthe history. Before using this feature you have to clear the old history records in the device.

1.1

What is required to activate a PREMIUM-FATURES?

•Purchase order numberYour company name•
A valid e-mail address where the activation code(s) should be sent back•The device name (e.g. FOX3-3G or BOLERO45).
•The PREMIUM feature to be activated (e.g. ECO-DRIVE-GPS)•The Production ID (Serial Number) of the device (e.g. 1234512312312345)
The Production ID (Serial Number) of the device can be read out by executing the following PFAL
command:•Get Device Production ID (Serial Number):
EXECUTE $PFAL,Msg.version.Complete

ANSWER$<MSG.Version.Complete>$Hardware: FOX3-3G$HardwareRev: 11-NUCHB$HardwareOptions: [Highspeed-CAN] [BAT] [MOTION] [AUDIO] [UBLOX] [BLE]$Software: avl_3.2.0$SoftwareID: AVL3_QUAD_GPRS (YXZsXzMuMi4wX3JjOQ==)$Production ID: 1111111111111111$ProductionCode: ……...
$BIOS: 2.2.1$GSM: SW:LISA-U201$GPS: UBLOX SW:1.00 (59842), HW:00070000$SUCCESS$<end>

After you have got all the information listed above, contact your vendor and send all thisinformation. Lantronix will generate the activation code(s) and send them back via email.
The generated activation code(s), should look like the following:

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//code for productID : 1111111111111111$PFAL,Msg.Feature="71,E0,BA,6A,F8,E6,65,73,99,F0,DD,66,30,6A,39,4F"//code for productID : 2222222222222222$PFAL,Msg.Feature="4A,D9,39,2A,45,EB,40,8B,EF,10,EA,66,65,7A,56,4A"//code for productID : 3333333333333333$PFAL,Msg.Feature="5A,7C,A7,9F,EA,C6,4F,8A,D8,D0,D0,10,78,A6,8A,07"//code for productID : 4444444444444444$PFAL,Msg.Feature="15,63,44,D9,C1,A0,E0,81,25,B1,A9,7A,32,B3,97,57"

1.1.1 Activating PREMIUM features
Once you get the generated activation key(s), copy the PFAL-Command (e.g.
$PFAL,MSG.Feature="71,E0,BA,6A,F8,E6,65,73,99,F0,DD,66,30,6A,39,4F") and send it to the AVL device
with the corresponding Production ID (e.g. 1111111111111111). Make sure that the PFAL Commandwith the Hex code is sent to the device with the corresponding Production ID.
To activate a PREMIUM feature, execute the PFAL-Command:
EXECUTE $PFAL,msg.feature="enter the generated code"
ANSWER$<MSG.Feature>$SUCCESS$<end>To check which feature is active/inactive by your AVL device, execute the PFAL-Command:
EXECUTE $PFAL,msg.feature

ANSWER$<MSG.Feature>$IndexedHistory: inactive$AES_TCP: inactive$EcoDrive: active (never expires)$SUCCESS$<end>In the above example the ECO-DRIVE-GPS is activated.

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