Background Location services
Both apps CAN track a user’s location in the background whilst the user is out of the office or home location and collecting data.
This is a useful personal safety feature linked to “Lone Working”. Importantly this feature can only be activated or revoked by the app end user, using their permission settings. When a user first sets up the app, Background Location permission is requested, and the end user will decide if this feature is of use and important to their individual safety needs.
What is Loan Working?
A lone worker is an employee or business owner who performs an activity that is carried out in isolation from other workers without close or direct supervision. Such staff may be exposed to risk because there is no-one to assist them in an emergency type situation and so a risk assessment and background tracking may be required.
The app can track a user’s location for the sole purpose of lone working. Tracking can be activated or revoked at any time depending on an individual’s requirements, working location and their own risk assessment and lone working practices.
How is the location data used?
A password protected database includes a single screen showing the location of any company individuals that have elected to allow background tracking from their permission settings.
How is their location displayed?
A single location pin on a map will show the users name and date/time the last known location was captured.
How can the data be considered useful?
The working location is known, and background location tracking is mutually agreed as beneficially useful for both office and individual device user.
The following are case examples when a location may be usefully checked on the password protected company database:
Considering the user case examples above, the last known location is of great benefit and can in some circumstances aid the recovery of an otherwise unknown injured/at risk person.