Nearby Search Support in MTS

date september 20, 2024 we've extended mts's functionality to support nearby search this new feature provides the ability to search for nearby devices, such as vehicles or drivers, in real time, offering flexible sorting and filtering options supported features radial distance filtering search for nearby devices by specifying a distance radius from a central point (latitude and longitude) to find the closest devices within range timestamp based sorting sort results by the most recent activity using the sortbytis option, ensuring the most up to date proximity data is retrieved flexible data management limit control the number of devices returned in a response, with a maximum of 50 offset skip a set number of devices and retrieve the next batch, allowing for efficient pagination of results use cases with these new features, businesses can now streamline their operations in several ways last mile logistics quickly find the nearest available vehicles or drivers to optimize delivery times and reduce downtime on demand services improve food delivery or package pickup operations by finding nearby drivers/riders and assigning tasks based on proximity and recent activity new endpoints we've added a new endpoint to enhance the nearby search functionality get nearby search allows developers to retrieve a list of nearby entities based on specified latitude, longitude, radius and sort by timestamp api changes the following api has been added get list of nearby entities reference documenation these enhancements provide developers with a more efficient way to manage and optimize operations based on real time location data for more details on how to integrate and use the new nearby search api features, refer to the nearby search developer guide