Automate your fleet with geofences

What is a geofence?

A geofence is a virtual perimeter drawn on the map around a real place. As soon as a tracked vehicle enters or leaves that perimeter, the platform records a timestamped event. The principle is simple; what matters is what it makes possible.

Places worth a geofence

• Depots and warehouses: Real departure and return times, with no manual log.
• Job sites: Time on site per asset, attributable to a project.
• Customer sites: Timestamped arrival when a delivery is disputed.
• Fuel stations: Matching a stop against a fuel transaction.
• Loading and unloading zones: Cycle duration on mine sites and quarries.
• Restricted areas: Detecting entry into a prohibited or sensitive area.

What an entry or exit triggers

A geofence event is useful because it is objective and timestamped. It becomes operational data, not just a notification.

• Notification to the manager
• Arrival and departure timestamps
• Time-on-site calculation
• Haul cycle counting
• Attaching the trip to a project
• Detecting off-route stops

The mining and quarry cycle case

On an extraction site, two geofences are enough to measure an entire operation: one on the loading zone, one on the dump zone. Each round trip between them becomes a cycle counted automatically, with its duration. That is what lets you reason in cost per tonne rather than cost per vehicle.

Avoiding the alert-flood trap

A fleet of twenty vehicles with forty geofences quickly produces several hundred events a day. Past a certain volume nobody reads them, and the system stops being useful.

• Start with your five busiest locations
• Notify only what calls for an action
• Record the rest without notifying
• Widen radii that are too tight