Put Grizzly IQ on your tablets

Grizzly IQ runs on Android tablets with Android 14 or newer. It needs an internet connection to enroll (Wi-Fi or cellular) and uses little data afterwards: small summaries on the schedule your fleet chooses, from every 15 minutes to every 2 hours.

You will need your fleet’s enrollment code. It is in the console under Settings › Tablet enrollment, next to a QR code that carries the same thing. One code serves the whole fleet; the account owner can change it at any time, which only affects tablets enrolling after that.

There are three ways in. Pick the one that matches how you manage tablets today.

1. Google Play. The Google Play listing is coming. Until it is live, email help@grizzlytab.com and we send you the app package with install notes for your MDM.
2. Through your MDM. Deploy the app the way you deploy any other managed app, and add the managed configuration described in the next section so tablets enroll themselves.
3. From your Grizzly IQ contact. If we are helping you roll out, you already have the package and the notes; the steps below are the same.

Grizzly IQ reads standard Android managed configuration (the app-configuration screen your MDM shows for a managed app). Four keys, all optional:

join_code

Your fleet's enrollment code, from Settings › Tablet enrollment. With this set, the tablet enrolls itself the first time the app runs. No driver step.

serial_number

The tablet's hardware serial. The app cannot read it on its own (Android keeps it from regular apps), so it has to come from here. Most MDMs can insert each device's own serial into an app-configuration value with a placeholder; use yours. With the serial in place the tablet matches your imported list and comes back as the same record after a factory reset.

asset_tag

Your own label for the tablet, if you use one. Optional.

friendly_name

The name the console shows, for example “Truck 14 tablet”. Optional; you can also name tablets in the console or by CSV later.

Set join_code and every tablet joins the fleet at first launch; add serial_number and each one is recognised for life. If your MDM cannot supply the serial, leave it blank: the console lets you label tablets by CSV afterwards, and a driver can type the tag or serial at setup.

Adding tablets later is the same motion: add them to the MDM, assign the app and its configuration, and they appear in the console on their own.

1. Open Grizzly IQ. Scan the QR code from Settings › Tablet enrollment with the tablet’s camera (the code fills itself in) or type the enrollment code.
2. Type the tablet’s asset tag or serial number from the sticker on the back (the serial is also under Android Settings › About tablet). One is enough. It is how the console tells this tablet apart from the others, and how it recognises the same tablet after a factory reset.
3. Tap Connect and read the short disclosure of what the app looks at.
4. Allow notifications, and allow location with “Allow all the time”: Android needs it to read signal strength, and the app records a position only at connection drops, at each scheduled check-in, and during a company-started finding session that is always shown on screen. Keep the app’s battery setting on Unrestricted so it can check in while the screen is off.
5. Optional: turn on “Usage access” if your fleet wants per-app data and screen-time totals. The app asks only when the console has switched that on.

A tablet shows up on the Devices page within a minute of connecting, and its first health read lands with its first check-in. From then on it samples its own condition about every 15 minutes while it is on and sends summaries on your fleet’s schedule.

Name tablets in the console, or put names, serials, asset tags and sites on the whole fleet at once from Devices › Import / roster. Import the list of tablets you own and the console shows which ones have not checked in yet.

A reinstall needs nothing from anyone: the tablet comes back as the same record. After a factory reset, enroll it again with the same asset tag or serial and it is the same record too, name and history included. If that tablet checked in only minutes earlier, the app asks the driver to confirm it is the same tablet before it takes the record over.

A replacement tablet wearing the old sticker takes the label; the old record is retired with its history kept. To take a tablet out of the fleet, open it in the console and choose Remove; it rejoins only by the enrollment code, seat permitting.

Email help@grizzlytab.com. Include your MDM if you use one; we have deployed alongside the common ones and can send the exact configuration screen for yours. The pricing page answers the plan questions.