Air-Trak Inc., San Diego, Calif., announced the availability of geofencing on its Cloudberry mobile resource management system.

Fleets using Cloudberry can now automatically receive an alert when a vehicle or other asset enters or exits a user-defined geographic area. Alerts appear on-screen and by e-mail, pager or mobile phone.
Fleets using Cloudberry geofencing enter the coordinates or address of a landmark, such as a building or street. A circular geofence is created around the landmark with a user-defined perimeter. When a vehicle enters or exits the area, an automatic alert is sent with the date and time it crossed the geofence. The signal can be used to confirm a delivery, to trigger an alarm and to create exception reports.
Geofencing is a component of Cloudberry's event management system. Any user-defined event, such as a sensor reading, door opening or pump activation, can be used to generate alerts and create exception reports.
Air-Trak's advanced dynamic geofencing, available in early 2005, will enable users to create geofences of arbitrary shapes with hours of operation, velocity and direction. For example, geofences will be able to move with changing weather or traffic conditions, alerting management and drivers when vehicles approach those conditions.
By specifying hours of operation, management will be able to track vehicles within a geographic boundary during set hours, which can be used to monitor such things as border crossings for homeland security.
For more information, visit www.air-trak.com.