Will I be alerted when my child leaves school?

Draw a zone around the school and attach it to your child's phone or tablet. When the device crosses the edge, the dashboard records an alert that names the device, the zone and the time. You can then open the map and see where it is.

Here is the honest limit. Alerts are visible when you look at the dashboard. Skie does not yet send an email or a push message to your phone when an alert happens. If you need to be told the moment a child leaves, you would need to check regularly, and that is not the same as a notification. The team is working on alerts, with no date to promise.

Another practical limit is position accuracy. Phones are less exact indoors and between tall buildings, so a child standing at the gate may flicker in and out of the zone. Make the school zone generous to cut false alarms.

If the device goes quiet instead of leaving, Skie flags the missing check-in as its own alert, so you are not relying on the zone alone. A child who switches the phone off at the gate shows up as a silent device, not as a child who is still at school.

Tip: set the zone for the school and a second one for the route home or the tuition centre, then check the dashboard at the usual time rather than every hour.