Suggestion For MDM: Reverse Geofencing

Ponceme
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Suggestion For MDM: Reverse Geofencing

I would like to make a suggestion for Geofencing. I would like to set zones that the driver should not enter for a certain amount of time.

 

My company delivers all over the state of Florida, however, the drivers should never be in their neighborhood. The way I set it up now (Which is very tedious) is I locate the drivers residence on the map, then make the entire state of Florida (with multiple area point) his allowed area, and leaving about 150-300 meters around his residence blank (The no go zone). 

 

I think it would be simple to set a point area as a Not allowed. Let me know if there is another way to do this or maybe this is something that could be implemented. 

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PhilipDAth
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I have wished for this feature as well.  The last use case I had was a client wanting to know about company phones going overseas - because they have had big roaming data bills in the past.  The idea being you contact the person before they leave the country.  My initial thoughts was to geo-fence the major international air ports.  They you know a person is probably just about to leave - before they have left.

 

I ended up having to geo-fence the entire country which generates an alert after they have left.

jared_f
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How often does Geo-Fence update. I tried this with device restrictions - setting wallpaper everytime a device arrived at the office, but it seemed very delayed.

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jared_f
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There is also no way of forcing location services for the Meraki MDM app, users can easily turn it off.

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They cant turn anything off in Kiosk mode.

The Geofences themselves don't update. Its the device that sends the current location. Its constantly sending the location. I set the grace period for when the device leaves its assigned areas to 30 minutes.

jared_f
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But, it is still unreliable sometimes my laptop and phone is in a different state. Not very accurate. 

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Well my devices are quite accurate and track location very well. I am asking for a simple switch on geofencing to make an identified area a No-Go zone. Right now, you can only make areas a Go-zone and everything not identified is a no-go zone.

Melissa
Meraki Alumni (Retired)
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Here's some information about how SM approximates location on devices - hopefully this explains some of the accuracy differences between laptops and supervised iOS - especially in single app mode with the SM app running the background! @Ponceme @jared_f

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/SM/Monitoring_and_Reporting/How_Systems_Manager_Approximates_the_Lo...

 

As for your question about no-go zones @Ponceme, would it help to create geofencing policies around the driver's houses and rethink what "compliance" means for those policies?

 

For example, I might suggest making a geofencing policy that is only selecting the driver's residence. Let's say you called it, "DriverHome". When the device is in the no go zone / at home, a  "DriverHome_compliant" tag would automatically be added to the device in SM. When the device is not shown in the no go zone / at home would also automatically get a DriverHome_violating tag. 

 

You could pull these tags into your main view in the Clients page, or set up an automatic report (Systems Manager>Alerts) of violating and compliant-after-violating devices. 

 

If that doesn't sound like it would help, I would say please submit the feature request in the "Make a Wish" box at the bottom of any dashboard page 🙂 

 

 

 

This doesn't work, I think that you should work on something like FORBIDDEN AREAS.

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