Taking Location-Based Alerts to the Next Level with Geofencing 2.0

Location-based services (LBS), also known as geofencing, have recently become more proactive, sending out intelligent messages anytime a user enters or exits a defined geographic area. As a result, connecting several geofences over time is difficult. We present a novel way for defining complex geofencing situations as state- and transition-based geofence models. A model of this type takes into account the temporal linkages between geofences as well as the time limits for being inside a geofence or traveling between geofences. These two features are critical for dealing with complex scenarios in which alerts should be given only when a user passes a specified number of geofences in a specific order or departs a geofence after a certain amount of time.