geo-fence

A form of geofence — A virtual perimeter around a geographic area, typically enforced by monitoring the positions of trackable mobile devices inside or outside the area, and determining if they cross the "fence".

Meanings

noungeo-fence (plural geo-fences)

plural geo-fences

  1. alternativeAlternative form of geofence.
verbgeo-fence (third-person singular simple present geo-fences, present participle geo-fencing, simple past and past participle geo-fenced)

present singular third person geo-fences · participle present geo-fencing · participle past geo-fenced · past geo-fenced

  1. alternativeAlternative form of geofence.

    In this case, you could use the GPS to "geo-fence" the area, and implement access control measures that track where devices are located within the facility, alerting you when mobile devices enter unapproved areas.

    2018, Dawn Dunkerley, CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-501 (Mike Meyers’ Certification Passport), 5th edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 414
    1 more example

    In this adventure you have built the hardware and software for a fully functional passenger lift, just like the lifts inside real buildings. By doing this, you have used many of the skills you learnt by working through all of the adventures in this book, including sensing the players' position, geo-fencing the lift shaft, moving the player, building blocks automatically, sensing when a block has been hit, interfacing with electronic circuits, using Python lists, developing and testing a program one step at a time, and many more amazing things!

    2015, Martin O'Hanlon, David Whale, “Adventure 10: The Minecraft Lift”, in Adventures in Minecraft, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page BC20
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Chicago

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