Geofences

Collection of articles and guides on geofences and how to manage them.

The Perspio geofencing service monitors any location enabled device to determine if it’s most recent position falls within a pre-configured virtual boundary - a geofence. If an asset’s location falls inside or outside of a geofence across two consecutive location updates, a Entry event or Exit event is generated.

These events can be used to:

• Create workflows to trigger a growing list of actions when they occur

• Provide insights relating to the geofence

  • Assets that are currently in the geofence

  • Average time spent in geofence

  • Unique assets to interact with the geofence

  • Total entry/exit events of a geofence

  • Most number of assets in the geofence

• Provide insights relating to an asset

  • How much time spend in geofence

  • Average time spent in geofence

  • Unique geofences entered

There are three geofence objects within Perspio:

1. Custom geofences - created by end-users

2. Toll geofences - system managed

3. KML - uploaded by end-users

Example geofence use cases:

• Some geofences are set up purely to monitor activity, providing insights into an assets movements

• High-risk geofences can be set up to trigger an alarm workflow if unauthorised assets enter

• Geofences can be set up across a distributed branch network to monitor stock levels at each location

• Geofences can be used at customer sites to assist with pre-delivery notifications