SkieCan I set safe zones like home and school on my child's phone or tablet?
Yes. In the Skie dashboard you can draw a safe zone around a place such as home, school or a grandparent's house, then attach it to your child's device. When the device leaves or enters the zone, an alert appears on your dashboard.
A safe zone is a circle or area on the map. Skie calls it a geofence. You create one by choosing a place and a size, give it a name you will recognise, and attach it to the device you want it to watch. You can edit or delete a zone whenever your routine changes.
Most families start with two: home and school. Some add a tuition centre, a sports ground or a relative's house. Because the zone is attached per device, you can give a teenager more zones than a younger sibling.
Alerts show on the parent dashboard, along with the device and time. Email and push notifications for alerts are not available yet. That means you see the alert when you open the dashboard, so it is useful as a quick check on how the day went, not as an alarm that wakes you.
Zones rely on the device reporting its position, so the same limits apply as for ordinary tracking. A device with no signal cannot say it has left. A missed check-in is flagged separately, so silence does not look like safety.
Tip: draw the school zone a little larger than the buildings. Phones are less precise indoors, and a tight zone creates false alarms on days nothing is wrong.
- Create, edit and delete zones
- Attach a zone to a device
- Alerts on the dashboard
- Email and push alerts: not available yet