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Send a distress signal to either a control room application and/or trigger an email or SMS via the push of a panic button. The location of the sender is included in the message and can be visualized in our web app in real time.
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\nFor our system to work - it needs to be configured to your environment. During this phase, we will help you set up all your tasks, routes, schedules and onboard your employees.
\nThe more feedback you provide us with, concerning your pain points, either with our system or your business problems, the more we can factor that input into future iterations of our product.
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\nAlphen Estate is a multi-tenant property with a single shared security service. Our client the estate owner wanted to increase visibility over the security guard's activities, make their patrolling unpredictable and provide them scheduled tasks such as checking on the electric fencing and fire equipment.
\nAlphen Estate uses all the Base Features and Security Features. Daily reports are generated so that individual feedback can be given to each guard by management.
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The following features can be added to the base product. They are integrations into existing systems.
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Data must be accessible to be useful. We provide a PDF report on a designated schedule to all relevant stakeholders. We provide a variety of reporting elements as shown below.
\nBy default we enable a daily PDF report summary which goes out as an email to a group.
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Time-line graphs indicate who was doing what and when.
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Heat Maps show a historical view of the relative time spent at a position. In reporting on randomized patrolling, this is useful to show that guards covered the area well and unpredictably.
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Photos are a good way to collect evidence of work done or monitor the visual state of something. They can easily be integrated into reporting for daily visibility.
\nA scheduled or triggered task can include a photo upload. This will instruct an employee to take a photo, at a specific location at a specific time or after a specific event.
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Signature inputs can be captured as part of any task. A user can use either their finger or a stylus to input the signature into the device through the touch screen. An example use case for such a feature is a parcel left at the reception that can be signed as received from security.
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"},{"url":"/docs/base-features/task-management/","relativePath":"docs/base-features/task-management.md","relativeDir":"docs/base-features","base":"task-management.md","name":"task-management","frontmatter":{"title":"Task Management","weight":2,"template":"docs","excerpt":""},"html":"Tasks are a good way of ensuring that employees do rule-based tasks. For example, checking that a door is locked every day after a certain time.
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Tasks can be configured to take place at a certain time, recurring or once-off and to be completed by a specific role. A task is received by a user much the same way a phone receives a message, an employee can choose to accept, delay or reject a task.
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Tasks can be reported on by type, shift, role, employee completed by. Additionally, the locations of the employee are associated with the task from when the task is accepted.
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\nWayfinding is integrated into tasks that need to be done at a specific location. Upon receiving or initiating the task a user will be directed to the location where the task should take place.
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In most cases, users would like to get from the start to the endpoint as quickly as possible. The shortest route algorithm running in the background on the phone enables this behavior, using the custom routes you have defined.
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\nWe provide an easy to use console interface for modeling routes. Routes define the paths users can walk along. In addition, our shortest route algorithm means that the directions provided are the quickest path between any two points.
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Add positions of interest such as patrol points, break areas and stations.
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Incidents can easily be reported by guards along with the location of the incident and optional photos or descriptions.
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The features listed below are to give a clearer indication of potential use cases specific to the management of Security Guards.
\nHere are the articles in this section:
"},{"url":"/docs/security-features/log-books/","relativePath":"docs/security-features/log-books.md","relativeDir":"docs/security-features","base":"log-books.md","name":"log-books","frontmatter":{"title":"Logbooks","weight":4,"template":"docs","excerpt":""},"html":"Logbooks are a standard security feature that Stationary guards can use to capture data. Configure inputs such as text fields or required photos on our web application.
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Entry and exit logbooks allow you to keep track of people and assets entering and exiting your site.
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This feature enables you to locate your employees within your facility. With tracking enabled, you can track employees against time to know where someone is was.
\nHistorical data can be displayed graphically on a map and can be filtered by a person, shift, location, role or time frame.
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Real-time location can also be tracked conveniently from our web application.![](\"https://res.cloudinary.com/dx8nclins/image/upload/v1587227025/ioloc-web/realtimeview_0_microsoft-surfacebook-front.png\")
GPS location accuracy is ineffective indoors and doesn’t give any information about what floor someone is on. We have created ioLoc Indoor Tracking to solve this limitation. This is vital for environments such as factories, malls, and offices.
\nThis option requires additional setup.
\nFor outdoor tracking, our systems achieve higher accuracy with assisted GPS tracking.
"},{"url":"/docs/security-features/logbooks/","relativePath":"docs/security-features/logbooks.md","relativeDir":"docs/security-features","base":"logbooks.md","name":"logbooks","frontmatter":{"title":"Shift Playback","weight":4,"template":"docs","excerpt":""},"html":"Shift playback allows viewing employees movements in an easy to understand map at any point in time. Replay, rewind, and fast forward through data from any shift.
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A panic button can be activated by pushing a button on the side of the phone. This will notify the control room of the current location of the guard.
"},{"url":"/docs/security-features/randomized-patrolling/","relativePath":"docs/security-features/randomized-patrolling.md","relativeDir":"docs/security-features","base":"randomized-patrolling.md","name":"randomized-patrolling","frontmatter":{"title":"Randomized Patrolling ","weight":4,"template":"docs","excerpt":""},"html":"Use randomized patrolling to ensure that patrolling guards never walk predictable routes again. As soon as a point is reached another point is generated at random. Time between points is linked to a guard's account and can be compared to ideal times for those routes.
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