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Location Screen

The Location screen provides functionality that allows the system user to get the location of the device, start/stop tracking that device and create geofences.

Get Current Location

This sends a command to the device that retrieves its current location. How fast a device can acquire a GPS lock can vary and is subject aa few things:

• The quality of the device, higher end phones will have better and more reliable components.
• Whether the phone is indoors or not. GPS works better when in plain view of the satellites.
• If the device is in power save mode or has low battery power
• GPS must be enabled on the device.

The Devreach Android app will attenpt to look for GPS for a maximum of 45 seconds, after which the request will be cancelled; This is to preserve batter power as GPS can drain battery quite quickly.

To get the current location of a device, click Get Current location(s) button.

The following popup will appear. NB. Please note you can also add this command to any groups.

Click the OK button to send the command. It should take less than 45 seconds to acquire the lock, but please wait up to 1 minute for the map to refresh.

If the push pin on the map is clicked on directly, the device's username and date/time of the lock are displayed.

Start Tracking/Stop Tracking

These buttons will present the same screens as above. However, base based on Config Options the company has chosen when purchasing the Devreach system, a tracking command that has been sent to the phone will acquire a GPS lock at a set frequency. This frequency is determined by the Config Option. For example if a company has set the tracking config option to 10 minutes, the tracking service will run every 10 minutes automatically.

The tracking service will run indefinitely, until Stop Tracking command is sent.

NB. Please chose a Tracking Config Option that is not too low (less that 10 minutes). A low figure will have a serious impact on battery life. A good figure would 30 mins to 1 hour.Underlined Text