Geofencing

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What Is It?

Background processing will unleash Location 2.0 apps. Geofencing is the technology that will drive this.

The Geofencing Library for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry alerts your app when a user enters or leaves an area that you define. We take care of the hard work: the geospatial calculations, the probability estimates (to deal with location accuracy), and the battery management. You’re the Hero who gets to take a little nap and say to us “wake me up when there’s something important for me.”

See video explaining the different types of Geofencing.

Why do I care?

How about applications that can automatically "check you in" when you arrive and check you out when you leave? Or receive alerts when someone tweets a Mick Jagger sighting around the corner? Or...?

Take advantage of location that's always on, all the time.

How Developers Use Us

  • Dine Out Cheap—Notifies you when you're near a dining deal.
  • Mayor Maker—(app for iPhone 4.0 coming soon) Automatically checks you into favorite places on Foursquare, no need to open an app.
  • MobiQpons—Sends dynamic alerts when a coupon can be redeemed within walking distance.
  • Whatamap—Extends geofencing to indoor locations, sending users alerts based on indoor mall locations.
  • Noel Group—Sends travel alerts, such as weather and local events.

Client-side Geofence library allows developers to:

  • Easily launch and manage applications that use geofences.
  • Use our smart algorithms to remarkably improve battery performance and customer experience with much more accurate geofence alerts.
  • Get the best results from background processing on smart phones.

For iPhone and Android. BlackBerry coming soon.

Universal Location Service (Veriplace)

What Is It?

Thought Google Latitude opening up the API for developers was good? Imagine a platform 60 TIMES more powerful. A platform that can remotely locate 180+M phones through a cloud-based API. No download required.

We can location-enable SMS services, mobile web apps, web apps, even voice-based applications -– anyone who needs to locate a phone.

How Developers Use Us

  • uShip—The world's largest peer-to-peer shipping network uses Universal Location API to track the location of shipments via drivers phone location. See it in action.

Other developers are currently testing applications that:

  • Use mobile phone location to eliminate fraud.
  • Power the FIRST completely legal mobile betting app. Location Labs will be the authentication that the user is actually in Nevada.
  • Location-enable roadside assistance calls.

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Privacy Management

What Is It?

Transparency breeds Trust. We’ll help you be transparent.

Make your users feel safe with a simple set of user interface controls that let the user control how her location is shared. The Location Labs Privacy Management lets users opt in or out of location sharing via SMS, mobile web, or even a web portal. Leverages industry-standard OAuth for easy integration. A free service for our developers.