Geofencing is extremely useful for ensuring personnel safety within extensive facilities. It involves defining safe zones, like rooms, floors, or buildings, and tracking the real-time location of staff. This allows managers to monitor employee movement in restricted or hazardous environments such as manufacturing plants, construction sites, or chemical labs. For example, an automated alert can be generated if someone enters a dangerous area and does not exit within a reasonable time.
It can also play an essential role in security operations by documenting that a guard has checked on a specific place at a particular time. This proactive monitoring reduces manual oversight and ensures that sensitive areas remain secure.
This level of situational awareness improves operational efficiency and overall staff safety, making it an invaluable tool for security and safety applications in complex environments.
In short
Easily define geofence areas in 2D or 3D to trigger geofence alerts when specified devices or users enter or leave these areas.
- Trigger events
- Start tracking upon entering or exiting
- Receive push alerts and alarms
Defining a geofence
Most geofencing solutions use a circle shape to delimit areas, but this method does not work well for zones with straight boundaries, like rooms and floors indoors. This results in inaccuracies in positioning people or objects and receiving unwanted notifications. Additionally, it can limit the ability to perform detailed geo-analytics in smaller segmented spaces. Instead, Traxmate uses polygons to define the geofenced zones.
You draw an area on a floor plan or a map to define a geofence. Depending on the use case, you define when, how, and why an alert should be activated.
Visit our knowledge base to learn how to define a geofence.
Alerts and events
Traxmate supports the following triggers: Not Present In, Present In, Idle, Place Entry, Place Exit, and Signals. This means you can create alert rules to check if your assets or personnel are present within or outside an area or have stopped moving. You can also set up geofence rules during specific hours, like “this hallway is only open during office hours, and if closed, send an alert if staff enters.”
Read more about location-aware alerts and events here.
