Geofencing

All posts with the Geofencing tag

Discussion
2 months ago Oct 06, 2025

Location tracking of company-owned devices

Hey everyone, we have several teams operating across different client locations, and we are looking for a way to track their locations with greater accuracy than standard geofencing. Ideally, we’d like to use precise latitude and longitude coordinates instead of drawing broad geofence zones. Is this possible in Hexnode?

Discussion
2 months ago Sep 26, 2025

Lost mode automation not responding when device returns to geofence

Hey guys, We’re running into a small issue with one of our geofencing automations in Hexnode. We’ve got a manufacturing setup where devices are geofenced around the plant premises. The automation works like this, when a device moves out of the geofence, it turns non-compliant and Lost Mode gets enabled. Once the device comes back…

Discussion
2 years ago Jun 04, 2024

Can I get a Custom Shape for a Geofence?

Hey all! Our organization has a strict no-cameras policy within the building. We typically enroll a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy for every device that enters the premises and apply camera restrictions during device configuration using geofencing. However, our building is not a standard rectangular shape, and there are still a few corners that…

Discussion
2 years ago May 21, 2024

Custom Geofences

We are super excited to announce that starting today, Hexnode policies will support Custom Geofences. While traditional geofences also helped with applying conditional policies, custom geofence helps you create the perfect fence for your devices in the shape of your choice to exert precise control over your devices and policies. And based on the requirements,…

Discussion
4 years ago Feb 24, 2022
Solved

Restrict access to a few Public Store apps outside office premises Solved

Our employees use BYOD devices with work profiles for their corporate needs. The work profiles contain a few Public Store applications with access to organizational data. As part of the security upgrade, we wish to restrict our employees from accessing such apps outside our office premises. Any suggestions to achieve this would be much appreciated.…

Discussion
4 years ago Feb 01, 2022
Solved

identifying offline devices outside geofence Solved

Hello experts, we are providing iOS devices to our employees working in transit. We’ve been making use of geofencing to manage devices but recently we noticed that if the device loses internet connectivity and goes out of geofence we are not getting notified at all. am I missing something here? is there a way we…

Ideation
6 years ago Jun 14, 2019

Geofencing by Country

I would love to see geofencing feature by country borders instead of  drawing a square over map. It's way to see if some devices are crossing the border which could potential cause a unnecessary data charges.