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7 THINGS ABOUT
GEOFENCING YOU’LL
KICK YOURSELF FOR NOT
KNOWING
ACADEMYby Pulsate™
PATRICK LEDDY
Pulsate™
THE NUMBERS
30% of the world population is already
using location-based services.
80% of them want to get location-
based alerts from businesses like yours.
WHAT IS A GEOFENCE?
1
Pulsate™
Pulsate™
1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE?
A Geofence is a virtual perimeter that you
can draw around any location on a map,
and then target customers who enter
that location.
It is used for larger areas where you want
to know if someone is walking by your
store, by competitor’s, or coming into a
particular location.
My Store
Competitor
Pulsate™
1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE?
By using Google maps or other mapping
tool, you can identify the area that you
want to geofence.My Store
Competitor
Pulsate™
1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE?
Then the app monitors for that geofence,
and as people go about their business, it’s
tracking that location in the background.
You know immediately when someone
breaches a fence, when they dwell there,
or as they are about to leave.
Pulsate™
1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE?
Geofences can be used to target
customers in physical locations, allowing
you to trigger the right messages, the
right campaign, at the right time and
place.
Pulsate™
1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE?
As mentioned last week…
A Beacon is a piece of hardware you can
add to your location and target
customers as they arrive, as they leave, or
as they dwell.
They are great for proximities and
knowing at a very granular level that
someone is near a certain object or
product.
Beacon
Beacon
Beacon
Beacon
Beacon
Beacon
BENEFITS OF GEOFENCING
2
Pulsate™
Pulsate™
2. BENEFITS OF GEOFENCING
CRM$
Some of the benefits include
increasing your sales and loyalty.
This can be achieved by mixing
CRM data with location events to
trigger the right message and
content.
Pulsate™
2. BENEFITS OF GEOFENCING
My Store
Customers
When customers are nearby that haven’t
been in your stores, haven’t been in your
location, or haven’t transacted in a while,
it might be a good time to win them
back.
Geofence
Hey, we’ve
missed you.
Come in for a
free coffee!
Yes, coffee!
USE CASES
3
Pulsate™
Pulsate™
3. USE CASES
Give them incentives
Remind them of rewards
Survey customers as they leave
Pulsate™
3. USE CASES
My Store
Competitor
Store
Geofence
Tracking competitors is
something that is
interesting as well. You
can’t really bug out your
competitor’s store with
beacons but you sure can
add a virtual perimeter - a
geofence.
Pulsate™
3. USE CASES
My Store
Competitor
Store
Geofence
You do need to put this in
your privacy policy, that
you’re geofencing not only
your own locations, but
possibly other locations
that don’t relate to your
business. You don’t have to
list them specifically as
competitors but mention
something.
HOW IT WORKS
4
Pulsate™
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
+ +
GPS Cellular Data WiFi
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
Historically, it’s more about the cellular data. You can
even go to your operator, ask them to geofence an area
and then they will actually send a text message out to
customers when they’ve breached that location.
Of course, they haven’t opted in for that. So that’s being
phased out and being replaced by applications that can
actually do the geofencing, where you opt in for location
services you want to get some of kind of “push
notifications” and you are aware that there is value
exchange going on.
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
We’ve moved from cellular to doing the “in” at the
application level geofencing. You can use high-accuracy
GPS to connect to satellite and get high-accuracy latitude
and longitude of where customers are.
The problem is, using GPS radio, the very high-power
consumption so you’re going to wear down the users’
battery. Another problem is you can’t rely on GPS in the
background. Your customers are not going to walk by
your business with the app open. They’re not going to be
that helpful.
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
We moved towards geofencing being passive, working in
the background, always on, and always being low-power
consumption and not using GPS.
X
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
How do the Operating Systems handle Geofencing?
Both iOS and Android, on the iOS side we have a
thing called “region monitoring”, which is part of Core
Location. The operating systems default API’s don't
handle geofencing very well. It’s known to be buggy
and inaccurate.
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
Can you afford to do active Geofencing and use GPS? 



What is the opportunity cost if customers realize
you’re not doing a very good job of your geofencing
and you’re wearing down their battery? 



Your app is probably going to be deleted off their
devices, ruining the opportunity for you, completely,
as a business.
1%
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
My Store
Customers
No Geofence
If you can’t engage with them in passive
mode when the application is in the
background, what are the business
opportunities that you’re missing out?
Of all those customers that are walking by
your business, you don’t even know they’re
there and you’re not reaching out.
It is an opportunity that you’re missing to
reach out, connect, and engage, and bring
them back into your business, create that
loyalty, and deepen the relationship.
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
Moving on to how we can actually put this to
work and how we’ve done it in Pulsate.
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
Geofences are virtual perimeters, you can
send notifications based on loyalty,
transactions, and segment data. 



You can also send campaign messages
when customers walk into a
competitor’s fence. Or simply track their
presence.
We’ve got better deals than
this company. Come by
and see for yourself!
My Store Competitor Store
Pulsate™
4. HOW IT WORKS
So remember, geofences are virtual, you can
create them in any location. They’re about
macro location and you don’t need to deploy
any hardware.
They’re obviously very cost-effective because
you can just fire up a map, create geofences all
around the world, and instantly your app can
begin to monitor for those location.
OUR REQUIREMENTS
5
Pulsate
™
Pulsate™
5. OUR REQUIREMENTS
Requires no hardware

Works passively in the background
Very, very, very little battery drain


Customers are able to update
our fences remotely
100%
Pulsate™
5. OUR REQUIREMENTS
+
So, we wanted that remote management,
better accuracy, robustness, and combine
all of the sensors on the device that we
could use to geofence.
We ended up taking cellular data and WiFi
data combined with sensor fusion.
Pulsate™
5. OUR REQUIREMENTS
In order for a phone to be a phone, it has to
connect to cellular towers. Otherwise, when
you get a phone call or a text message its
not going to alert you.
Pulsate™
5. OUR REQUIREMENTS
When a WiFi Router or SSID is first sighted, the
Operating System of your device will power up
GPS in the background, and take a high
accuracy location fix on where this WiFi Router
is located.



Essentially every smartphone is crowd
sourcing what wifi signals map to physical
locations.
Pulsate™
5. OUR REQUIREMENTS
Pulsate piggybacks on those WiFi pings. We
have a database of all those WiFi routers and
where they are.
Pulsate™
5. OUR REQUIREMENTS
We combine the cellular tower known
locations to the WiFi known location, which
you can do very accurate geofencing with,
right down to, on average, 100 meters and
even below in some situations.
+ +
+
+
+ +
Pulsate™
5. OUR REQUIREMENTS
This means we don’t have to run GPS. It means
we can do it in the background, and we’re not
going to upset the user by draining their
battery.
+ +
+
+
+ +
BEST PRACTICES
6
Pulsate™
Pulsate™
6. BEST PRACTICES
Geofence mainly in urban locations. We
recommend targeting customers with a
minimum fence size of 100 meters if using
default API’s provided by the device. If using
Pulsate you can geofence down to 10
meters.
Pulsate™
6. BEST PRACTICES
If you create geofences in a countryside
location, you won’t have the same density of
WiFi routers and cellular towers, so you want
to make those fences a little bigger, maybe
several meters or even kilometres.
Pulsate™
6. BEST PRACTICES
You don’t want your geofences to overlap
unless you have unusual use case that calls
for it. Try to have at least a couple of
hundred meters between geofences.
Pulsate™
6. BEST PRACTICES
You need WiFi turned on on the consumer’s
device for this to work. Cellular towers are not
enough to do accurate geofencing.
Pulsate™
6. BEST PRACTICES
Bring segmentation into it. Do not rely on,
“Hey, I’ve geofenced my store, I’m sending the
same generic template to people that walk
by.” Use purchase data, behaviours and
interests that you have on customers to really
segment out your campaigns.
A
B
C
D
Pulsate™
6. BEST PRACTICES
Instead of having one generic geofence
campaign, have 5, 10, 20 campaigns that
address all those different personas that you
have in your customers base, making sure
that you’re reaching out not only at the right
place, but also at the right time, with the
right message as well.
A
B
C
D
PRIVACY
7
Pulsate™
Pulsate™
7. PRIVACY
Customers need to download your mobile
app and opt in for location services. If you
want to send push notification, you must
ask them to opt in for this as well.
Pulsate™
7. PRIVACY
In your Private Policy, you should mention
that you’re collecting and storing location
data from customers.
Pulsate™
7. PRIVACY
Don’t ask for location or push permissions the
first time they open the app. Wait until they
need access to the specific feature that
requires these permissions.
http://bit.ly/1TqG9s9
Watch our video
on how to ask
for permissions
the right way:
Pulsate™
7. PRIVACY
If you earn a customers trust and they decide
to opt-in, make sure you only send relevant,
personalised content that provides value.
IN SUMMARY
Pulsate™
Pulsate™
IN SUMMARY
7 Things About Geofencing That You’ll
Kick Yourself for Not Knowing:
1. What is a Geofence
2. Benefits of Geofencing
3. Use Cases
4. How it Works
5. Our Requirements
6. Best Practices
7. Privacy
Pulsate™
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7 Things About Geofencing You'll Kick Yourself For Not Knowing

  • 1. 7 THINGS ABOUT GEOFENCING YOU’LL KICK YOURSELF FOR NOT KNOWING ACADEMYby Pulsate™ PATRICK LEDDY
  • 2. Pulsate™ THE NUMBERS 30% of the world population is already using location-based services. 80% of them want to get location- based alerts from businesses like yours.
  • 3. WHAT IS A GEOFENCE? 1 Pulsate™
  • 4. Pulsate™ 1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE? A Geofence is a virtual perimeter that you can draw around any location on a map, and then target customers who enter that location. It is used for larger areas where you want to know if someone is walking by your store, by competitor’s, or coming into a particular location. My Store Competitor
  • 5. Pulsate™ 1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE? By using Google maps or other mapping tool, you can identify the area that you want to geofence.My Store Competitor
  • 6. Pulsate™ 1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE? Then the app monitors for that geofence, and as people go about their business, it’s tracking that location in the background. You know immediately when someone breaches a fence, when they dwell there, or as they are about to leave.
  • 7. Pulsate™ 1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE? Geofences can be used to target customers in physical locations, allowing you to trigger the right messages, the right campaign, at the right time and place.
  • 8. Pulsate™ 1. WHAT IS GEOFENCE? As mentioned last week… A Beacon is a piece of hardware you can add to your location and target customers as they arrive, as they leave, or as they dwell. They are great for proximities and knowing at a very granular level that someone is near a certain object or product. Beacon Beacon Beacon Beacon Beacon Beacon
  • 10. Pulsate™ 2. BENEFITS OF GEOFENCING CRM$ Some of the benefits include increasing your sales and loyalty. This can be achieved by mixing CRM data with location events to trigger the right message and content.
  • 11. Pulsate™ 2. BENEFITS OF GEOFENCING My Store Customers When customers are nearby that haven’t been in your stores, haven’t been in your location, or haven’t transacted in a while, it might be a good time to win them back. Geofence Hey, we’ve missed you. Come in for a free coffee! Yes, coffee!
  • 13. Pulsate™ 3. USE CASES Give them incentives Remind them of rewards Survey customers as they leave
  • 14. Pulsate™ 3. USE CASES My Store Competitor Store Geofence Tracking competitors is something that is interesting as well. You can’t really bug out your competitor’s store with beacons but you sure can add a virtual perimeter - a geofence.
  • 15. Pulsate™ 3. USE CASES My Store Competitor Store Geofence You do need to put this in your privacy policy, that you’re geofencing not only your own locations, but possibly other locations that don’t relate to your business. You don’t have to list them specifically as competitors but mention something.
  • 17. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS + + GPS Cellular Data WiFi
  • 18. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS Historically, it’s more about the cellular data. You can even go to your operator, ask them to geofence an area and then they will actually send a text message out to customers when they’ve breached that location. Of course, they haven’t opted in for that. So that’s being phased out and being replaced by applications that can actually do the geofencing, where you opt in for location services you want to get some of kind of “push notifications” and you are aware that there is value exchange going on.
  • 19. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS We’ve moved from cellular to doing the “in” at the application level geofencing. You can use high-accuracy GPS to connect to satellite and get high-accuracy latitude and longitude of where customers are. The problem is, using GPS radio, the very high-power consumption so you’re going to wear down the users’ battery. Another problem is you can’t rely on GPS in the background. Your customers are not going to walk by your business with the app open. They’re not going to be that helpful.
  • 20. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS We moved towards geofencing being passive, working in the background, always on, and always being low-power consumption and not using GPS. X
  • 21. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS How do the Operating Systems handle Geofencing? Both iOS and Android, on the iOS side we have a thing called “region monitoring”, which is part of Core Location. The operating systems default API’s don't handle geofencing very well. It’s known to be buggy and inaccurate.
  • 22. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS Can you afford to do active Geofencing and use GPS? 
 
 What is the opportunity cost if customers realize you’re not doing a very good job of your geofencing and you’re wearing down their battery? 
 
 Your app is probably going to be deleted off their devices, ruining the opportunity for you, completely, as a business. 1%
  • 23. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS My Store Customers No Geofence If you can’t engage with them in passive mode when the application is in the background, what are the business opportunities that you’re missing out? Of all those customers that are walking by your business, you don’t even know they’re there and you’re not reaching out. It is an opportunity that you’re missing to reach out, connect, and engage, and bring them back into your business, create that loyalty, and deepen the relationship.
  • 24. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS Moving on to how we can actually put this to work and how we’ve done it in Pulsate.
  • 25. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS Geofences are virtual perimeters, you can send notifications based on loyalty, transactions, and segment data. 
 
 You can also send campaign messages when customers walk into a competitor’s fence. Or simply track their presence. We’ve got better deals than this company. Come by and see for yourself! My Store Competitor Store
  • 26. Pulsate™ 4. HOW IT WORKS So remember, geofences are virtual, you can create them in any location. They’re about macro location and you don’t need to deploy any hardware. They’re obviously very cost-effective because you can just fire up a map, create geofences all around the world, and instantly your app can begin to monitor for those location.
  • 28. Pulsate™ 5. OUR REQUIREMENTS Requires no hardware
 Works passively in the background Very, very, very little battery drain 
 Customers are able to update our fences remotely 100%
  • 29. Pulsate™ 5. OUR REQUIREMENTS + So, we wanted that remote management, better accuracy, robustness, and combine all of the sensors on the device that we could use to geofence. We ended up taking cellular data and WiFi data combined with sensor fusion.
  • 30. Pulsate™ 5. OUR REQUIREMENTS In order for a phone to be a phone, it has to connect to cellular towers. Otherwise, when you get a phone call or a text message its not going to alert you.
  • 31. Pulsate™ 5. OUR REQUIREMENTS When a WiFi Router or SSID is first sighted, the Operating System of your device will power up GPS in the background, and take a high accuracy location fix on where this WiFi Router is located.
 
 Essentially every smartphone is crowd sourcing what wifi signals map to physical locations.
  • 32. Pulsate™ 5. OUR REQUIREMENTS Pulsate piggybacks on those WiFi pings. We have a database of all those WiFi routers and where they are.
  • 33. Pulsate™ 5. OUR REQUIREMENTS We combine the cellular tower known locations to the WiFi known location, which you can do very accurate geofencing with, right down to, on average, 100 meters and even below in some situations. + + + + + +
  • 34. Pulsate™ 5. OUR REQUIREMENTS This means we don’t have to run GPS. It means we can do it in the background, and we’re not going to upset the user by draining their battery. + + + + + +
  • 36. Pulsate™ 6. BEST PRACTICES Geofence mainly in urban locations. We recommend targeting customers with a minimum fence size of 100 meters if using default API’s provided by the device. If using Pulsate you can geofence down to 10 meters.
  • 37. Pulsate™ 6. BEST PRACTICES If you create geofences in a countryside location, you won’t have the same density of WiFi routers and cellular towers, so you want to make those fences a little bigger, maybe several meters or even kilometres.
  • 38. Pulsate™ 6. BEST PRACTICES You don’t want your geofences to overlap unless you have unusual use case that calls for it. Try to have at least a couple of hundred meters between geofences.
  • 39. Pulsate™ 6. BEST PRACTICES You need WiFi turned on on the consumer’s device for this to work. Cellular towers are not enough to do accurate geofencing.
  • 40. Pulsate™ 6. BEST PRACTICES Bring segmentation into it. Do not rely on, “Hey, I’ve geofenced my store, I’m sending the same generic template to people that walk by.” Use purchase data, behaviours and interests that you have on customers to really segment out your campaigns. A B C D
  • 41. Pulsate™ 6. BEST PRACTICES Instead of having one generic geofence campaign, have 5, 10, 20 campaigns that address all those different personas that you have in your customers base, making sure that you’re reaching out not only at the right place, but also at the right time, with the right message as well. A B C D
  • 43. Pulsate™ 7. PRIVACY Customers need to download your mobile app and opt in for location services. If you want to send push notification, you must ask them to opt in for this as well.
  • 44. Pulsate™ 7. PRIVACY In your Private Policy, you should mention that you’re collecting and storing location data from customers.
  • 45. Pulsate™ 7. PRIVACY Don’t ask for location or push permissions the first time they open the app. Wait until they need access to the specific feature that requires these permissions. http://bit.ly/1TqG9s9 Watch our video on how to ask for permissions the right way:
  • 46. Pulsate™ 7. PRIVACY If you earn a customers trust and they decide to opt-in, make sure you only send relevant, personalised content that provides value.
  • 48. Pulsate™ IN SUMMARY 7 Things About Geofencing That You’ll Kick Yourself for Not Knowing: 1. What is a Geofence 2. Benefits of Geofencing 3. Use Cases 4. How it Works 5. Our Requirements 6. Best Practices 7. Privacy
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