Geofence
In Arabicالمنطقة الجغرافية
A virtual boundary drawn on the map around a site, so the tracking system knows when a vehicle enters or leaves it.
What is a geofence in fleet management?
A geofence is a virtual boundary around a place that matters to the fleet: a depot, a customer site, a fuel station or a whole district. The tracking platform compares every position the device reports with that boundary and knows whether the vehicle is inside or outside, and when it crossed.
Most geofences are polygons that follow the site boundary or circles around a centre point; some are approved routes along a road. A geofence raises nothing on its own; the rule attached to it decides what is watched.
How it works
- 1A boundary is drawn around the site
- 2Platform compares each position with it
- 3Entry or exit is logged with time
Why does a geofence matter in fleet management?
Without geofences, tracking data is just coordinates. With them it becomes events an operator can act on: the truck reached the customer, left the depot after hours, sat in the workshop for three days. Safety alarms, service-time figures and proof of delivery are all built on those events.
What you gain
- Turns coordinates into events
- Documented arrival and departure times
- Proof of delivery without phone calls
How does Safee help you create and use geofences?
Safee supports four types of geographical unit: polygon, circle, path (an approved route) and point of interest (POI), and can import sites in bulk from KML files. Geofences show on the live map and in path history, and alarms and visit reports are built on them, so you know what is happening at each site without phoning the driver.
A field example
A cement supplier in Dammam delivers to 40 construction sites a day and only knew a truck had arrived when the driver phoned in. It drew a geofence around each site, so arrival and departure times were logged automatically. The data showed six sites holding trucks for more than two hours per unload. Follow-up calls to drivers fell by roughly half, and the supplier rescheduled deliveries to those six sites around their unloading capacity.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a geofence and a point of interest?
A geofence is an area with a boundary whose entry and exit can be detected; a point of interest is a single marker that only labels a place.
Does drawing a geofence trigger an alarm?
No. A geofence raises nothing until it is linked to a rule such as entry and exit or time spent inside.
How many geofences does a fleet need?
Start with the sites where you make operational decisions, then add more as new questions come up.
Want to put this to work in your fleet?
Talk to a Safee fleet expert about your vehicles and how you operate, and we will suggest what fits.
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