GPS geofencing draws a virtual boundary around your site. SiteKey uses it to verify people are actually there when they sign in, so your on-site list reflects reality, not intentions.
A geofence is a virtual perimeter drawn around a real location, in this case your worksite. When sign in is location-aware, the record shows not just that someone signed in, but that they did it at the gate rather than from the carpark of a cafe across town.
Why does that matter? Because everything downstream of sign in inherits its accuracy. Your live on-site list is your evacuation list; if it includes people who signed in remotely or misses people who never signed in, it fails at the exact moment you need it. Your attendance and time records feed client reporting and compliance; if they can be gamed, they will be doubted.
Location verification is also worth being straight about. It is a check at the moment of sign in and sign out, at the site boundary. It is not surveillance of where workers go all day, and it should never be. Used that way, it protects workers as much as it protects records: in an emergency, being on the evacuation list is what gets you accounted for.
Sign in from anywhere and someone will sign in from everywhere. The on-site list stops meaning on site, and the evacuation roll is fiction.
People leave and forget to sign out, so the list shows a site full of ghosts. Location awareness catches the leaving as well as the arriving.
When a client or auditor suspects records can be gamed, every record is discounted. Verified location makes the record credible.
SiteKey uses the GPS in the phone people already sign in with. No hardware at the gate, no tags, no separate app.
SiteKey starts from $30/month as a flat rate. There are no per-user fees and no per-scan costs, so the price does not climb every time you take on another crew. GPS geofencing is part of SiteKey site access management, on the same flat rate. See full pricing on the SiteKey homepage.
Geofencing is a virtual boundary drawn around a real place using GPS coordinates. Software can then respond to whether a device is inside or outside that boundary. For worksites, the practical use is location-verified sign in: confirming that when someone signs in to your site, they are physically at your site, which keeps attendance records and evacuation lists honest.
No, and it should not. SiteKey checks location at the moment of sign in and sign out, against the site boundary. It does not follow people through their day or record where they go off site. The point is the integrity of the site record, who is on this site right now, not surveillance. Being accurately on the on-site list is also what gets a worker accounted for in an evacuation.
Because the on-site list is only useful if it is true. It doubles as your evacuation roll in an emergency, it feeds your attendance and compliance records, and clients and auditors rely on it. If people can sign in from anywhere, the list drifts away from reality exactly where the stakes are highest. A geofence keeps the record anchored to the site.
No. SiteKey works through the browser on the phone workers already carry: they scan the site QR code, the sign-in page opens, and the phone's own GPS confirms they are within the site boundary. There are no gate terminals to install or power, no tags or fobs to issue, and no app to download.
SiteKey is a flat rate from $30 a month per site, and geofencing is part of the platform rather than an add-on. There are no per-user or per-scan charges, so the price stays the same as your crew grows. Every site you add gets its own QR signs, geofence and live on-site list.
Tell us about your site and we will set up a geofenced sign in you can rely on, usually within a few days.
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