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.
Key Takeaways
What is a geofence in Traxmate?
A defined zone that triggers actions when specified users or devices enter or leave. Use it to enforce safety, automate checks, and create audit trails.
Why polygons instead of circles?
Rooms and floors have straight boundaries. Circles create inaccuracies and noisy alerts. Traxmate uses polygons so you can draw precise areas on floor plans or maps and cut false alarms.
What triggers are available?
Not Present In, Present In, Idle, Place Entry, Place Exit, and Signals. You can also limit rules to specific hours, for example, a corridor that is closed outside office hours.
How does this improve safety and security operations?
You verify presence in hazardous or restricted zones, receive alerts if someone remains too long, and document patrol checks at specific locations and times. This raises situational awareness and reduces manual oversight.
How do you create a geofence?
Draw the area on a floor plan or map, set the conditions under which alerts should fire, then save. Read the step-by-step guide for more information.
What notifications and actions can you trigger?
Start tracking on entry or exit, send push alerts and alarms, and log events for compliance and reviews.
Where does this fit best?
Personnel safety in complex facilities, security patrol verification, and geo-analytics for segmented indoor spaces like plants, labs, and construction sites.
What platform context matters?
Traxmate runs in the cloud or on-prem and is a spin-out from Combain. Geofences are part of the broader fusion location platform, which includes alerts, heatmaps, routing, and visualization.
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.
