GeoFencing

Receive automatic notifications when a team device enters or leaves a specific area. GeoFencing is built on your Points of Interest and works even when devices are temporarily offline.

What Is GeoFencing?

GeoFencing creates an invisible boundary around a location defined by a Point of Interest. When a monitored device crosses that boundary — entering or leaving — you receive an encrypted notification on your device.

Tip: GeoFencing boundaries are the proximity radius of your Points of Interest. Edit the radius of a POI to make the zone larger or smaller.

Setting Up a GeoFence Rule

Open GeoFencing from the side menu. The screen has four panels, filled from top to bottom.

GeoFencing screen: WHO panel with the Family team expanded and Birgit selected, WHERE panel with the Bike Tour group expanded and Point 3. Resto selected — **WHO** and **WHERE**

GeoFencing screen: WHAT panel with Member enters POI area selected, CONFIRMATION reading Birgit (S25) will trigger alert when Enter Point 3. Resto, and Set Monitoring button — **WHAT**, **CONFIRMATION** and **Set Monitoring**

1. WHO — Select Team Members

Devices are listed by team
Select individual devices, or the team checkbox to select all of them at once
Each device is an independent monitoring target
If you are alone in your teams, the panel says No team members available — invite another device first

2. WHERE — Select Points of Interest

Private POIs and Shared POIs are listed separately, grouped by folder
Tap a folder name (▶) to expand it, then tick the POIs to monitor
You can monitor several locations at the same time

3. WHAT — Select Action

Member enters POI area — alert on entry
Member leaves POI area — alert on exit
Member enters OR leaves POI area — alert on both

4. CONFIRMATION — Review Settings

A summary of your choices is shown in plain language. It tells you what is still missing (for example Select team members to continue). The Set Monitoring button becomes active once everything is complete.

The monitored devices receive your request and can see that they are monitored.

GeoFencing Manager

Open GeoFencing Manager from the side menu to review all rules. It has two tabs:

GeoFence Manager, Requests tab: Create New Request button, counters Active 4 and Inactive 0, and Leave rules for Birgit at Ilai, WinterPumpen and Edeka, each Active and OUT with Disable and Delete buttons — **Requests** — people you monitor

GeoFence Manager, Monitor tab: People who monitor you, empty state Not monitored by anyone — **Monitor** — people who monitor you

Requests — the rules you created, with Active and Inactive counters. Each rule shows how many devices it monitors at how many locations, its state, and Disable / Delete buttons. + Create New Request opens the GeoFencing screen.
Monitor — the requests other devices made about you: who monitors you, your distance to the zone and its radius, and whether you are in or out. Tap Deny to refuse a request.

Receiving GeoFence Alerts

When a boundary crossing is detected, you receive an encrypted notification containing:

Event type: ENTERED or EXITED
The device that triggered the event
The name of the POI whose zone was crossed
The time (time only for today's events; full date for older events)

Tip: A 5-minute minimum interval between events prevents repeated alerts if a device hovers near a boundary.

Event History

All GeoFence events are kept in the Event Viewer (bell icon in the toolbar), sorted newest first. Use the filter to show only GEOFENCE_NOTIFY_ENTER or GEOFENCE_NOTIFY_LEAVE events.

Tap an event to jump to the map and track that device's current location
The map shows where the device is now, not where it was during the event
History is persistent — it survives app restarts

How It Works

Xopoz uses device-side detection. Monitored devices detect their own boundary crossings locally and send encrypted notifications to your device via the team messaging system. No GPS data is processed on the server.

Offline Behaviour

If a monitored device detects a boundary crossing while it has no internet connection, the notification is queued locally. When connectivity is restored, all queued notifications are delivered automatically.

Battery friendly. GeoFencing reuses the existing GPS acquisition with no additional power overhead. No extra GPS requests are made solely for GeoFencing.

Privacy

All GeoFence notifications are encrypted with team-specific keys. The server routes encrypted messages without being able to read their content.