Esri's Geotrigger service allows users to set location-based triggers that send messages or notifications when a device enters or leaves an area. The document discusses Geotrigger components like condition polygons that define areas, actions like sending messages, and tracking profiles that control location accuracy and battery usage. It also covers creating Geotrigger rules using geoJSON format and APIs for integrating Geotriggers with ArcGIS applications. Battery usage can be optimized using adaptive, rough, or real-time tracking profiles depending on the needed location accuracy and priority of conserving battery life.

1. Intro to Esri’s Geotrigger
Service for ArcGIS
Aaron Parecki & Kenichi Nakamura
Esri R&D Center Portland

2. Geotrigger
An Invisible
Button

3. Calm
Technology

4. The location
Problem
Battery
Drain

5. All-day use without
the battery drain
Location services
for
smartphones
at scale

6. Geotrigger Use Cases

7. Geotrigger Technology
• SDKs
• APIs
• Battery Management & Tracking Profiles
• Sample Code

8. Use ArcGIS iPhone and Android SDKs

9. Geotrigger Components
• Condition (area) Polygon
• Action (message, callback URL, or change
tracking profile)
• Tags (to group content)
- Example: Wikipedia article data
- Tags for Buildings, History
- Can allow users to subscribe to a subset of
the data

10. Creating a Geotrigger Rule (geoJSON)
GeoJSON
format

11. Setting a Geotrigger for a date and time
Set the date and
time in the
dateFrom and
dateTo fields.

12. Battery Conservation
for Persistent
Location

13. Geotrigger Tracking Profiles
Adaptive mode
• Optimized for Geotrigger™ events
• Will use less power when farther away from
triggers and content
Rough mode
• Only gathers approximate location data
• Good for determining if a device is in a given city
or neighborhood
• The most battery efficient

14. Data collected by one person in rough
mode

15. Geotrigger Tracking Profiles
Real-time mode
• Sends accurate location as fast as possible
• Least battery efficient
Logging
• Tracks location data in areas of low
connectivity
• Sends to the server later, or when a
connection re-occurs

16. Data collected by one person in
real-time mode
2.5 million points since 2008

17. Using Tracking Profiles
This code
turns the
tracker
into real-
time mode
the user
arrives in a
given city.

18. Visual Geotrigger Editor

19. Geotrigger ArcGIS
Integration
Available through
• developers.arcgis.com
• ArcGIS Online
Summer
2013

20. Aaron Parecki
CTO Esri R&D
Center Portland
aparecki@esri.comQuestions?
Thanks! Kenichi Nakamura
Platform
Engineer
Esri R&D Center
Portlandknakamura@esri.co
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