Geofencing & POI

• Name: You can use any name you want, like Office, Warehouse, or Accounts Department –choose a label that fits your purposes and will help you find your POI easily.
• Icon: You can use any picture from the library or upload it from your PC.
• Tags: Tags are used to work with large amounts of POIs and are very helpful if you have more than several dozen POIs. There’s no limit in the number of tags, and the same POI can be identified by several tags

What do I need POIs for?

• Finding objects on the map – you don’t have to specify the whole address anymore. Just type the name or tag you assigned to the POI and you’ll have the list with all the matches.
• Creating routes and geofences – you can easily find a place on the map and draw a circle or polygon. You can also create a path between several POIs, let’s say between your office and warehouse.

Geofence is a restricted area on a map. It is created to control trackers inside and out of it.

On our platform geofences are used for setting a virtual perimeter. You will get notifications when your objects (Vehicles/tracked Assets) cross the borders. So, for example, if some building machinery (tracked assets) leaves the zone, the officers will get an email or SMS notification.

Geofences are used to define virtual perimeters. The system can control whether an object crosses the geofence border (either “in” or “out”). All these events are logged, so the user can obtain geofence reports and receive alerts.

To access the Geofences tool click the Polygon icon on the map toolbar. Here you can create and import new geofences or edit the existing ones. To display desired geofences on the map simply mark the checkboxes.

Geofence Types
There are three basic types of geofences available:

• Circle – a geographical area with a given center and the shape of a circle with a minimum radius of 20 meters (the radius and center of the circle are defined by the user).
• Polygon – an area bounded by an arbitrary polygon with any number of vertices.
• Route – allows to creation of a virtual perimeter between two (or more) points. E.g., it is used in order to ensure that a vehicle doesn’t leave a predetermined route, and if it does, an alarm can be set to inform the interested party.

1. Locate the desired area on the map. You can use the ‘Address search’ tool.

       2. Choose the ‘Geofences’ tool by clicking on the Polygon icon at the bottom of the screen.

• Circle – Move the circle with a mouse, having pressed the center of the circle. To change the size of the circle, pull the point on the edge of the circle.
• Polygon – initially has a form of the correct pentagon, which can be easily and randomly changed. To add new vertices, you need to pull the mouse over the center of one of the polygon’s sides. To delete a vertex just double-click on it
• Route – you need to choose start and end points, the system will automatically build a route between them. If you want to add more points to the route, drag the route with the mouse. Next, determine the size of the vicinity
• Specify the name of the geofence and save it. Geofences you created can be Edited or Deleted.

You have a possibility to color-create Geofences for better visualization. It is very helpful in case you have a lot of geofences on the map. So you are able to divide them into groups and distinguish them at a glance. For example, offices may be painted in red, warehouses in blue, and parking in grey.

To Change а Color of your Geofence:

• Open a list of geofences
• Choose a necessary zone
• Click “Edit”
• Choose the Color you like and you will see how a geofence has changed the color on the map.
• Save results