SkieHow do I attach a geofence to a group of devices?
Open the group, choose the geofence you want it to be judged against, and save. From then on, devices in that group are checked against the zone and you get an alert when one leaves it. A geofence does nothing until it is attached, and one zone can be attached to several groups.
Groups are the working unit in Skie. A group might be a class, a hostel floor, a delivery team or a shop's tablets. A geofence is a place. Attaching ties the two together: this group should be in this place.
Pick the group, open its location settings, select the geofence, and save. You can attach the same geofence to many groups, which is how a whole school shares one campus zone. You can also give different groups different zones. Day scholars and boarders might use different boundaries, and a field team can have a zone around a job site that is not the same as the head office.
Think about who belongs in the group. Skie keeps one student to one device, so the group list is effectively a list of people. Moving a student to another group moves them to that group's zone from then on. If you promote a whole group at the end of a year, the attachment travels with the group.
A zone attached to the wrong group causes noise. A staff group attached to a student campus zone will raise alerts every time a teacher goes on an outing. Review the attachments when you create a new group, and use the where-used view to see which groups depend on a zone.
Alerts arrive in the breach centre and can be read by the roles that have access. Practical tip: attach to a small pilot group first and check the alerts make sense before attaching a whole school.