Dear readers,

Lately I have been updating our company's multi mobile platform framework with geofencing functionality. Geofencing is the creation of a virtual field that represents a geographic area where a user can be notified when he or she leaves or enters the area.

In out framework this represents the functionality that lets customers create a digital fence for their users based on their GPS position, GSM/UMTS cell signal or based on a wireless lan accesspoint area. When the user enters or leaves that specified area, the administrator will be noticed (or an action will be triggered). We invested in this technology because we think it has several advantages for users in different contexts. e.g. When a group of users are supposed to visit clients in city centre of Deventer, there is no need for them to be at the coffeeshop at a nearby village. With a system like ours, you (as an administrator) can now be notified by the system when a user left his workspace. Other usefull processes can be triggered by this action. Let us know your ideas and we can supply the solution!

Along with the above features I have created some tools for the creation and specification of the fences. A mobile tool to provide you with the GSM/UMTS-cells you need to add to the fence, a wireless LAN accesspoint scanner and a innovative tool to draw a GPS-map on a graphical Geographic Information System like Google Maps.

Do you like this blog or are you interested in the techniques used? Let us know by dropping a line or just give us a ring!

Wouter van der Veer, R&D 2go-mobile B.V.


Article dated : 12 feb 2009
Rev : 2