{"id":85496,"date":"2020-04-06T01:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14690"},"modified":"2020-04-06T01:18:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T19:48:46","slug":"what-is-geo-fencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-geo-fencing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Geo-fencing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Government of India has planned to use the &#8216;Geo-Fencing App&#8217; to locate quarantine violators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Geo-fencing<\/strong>:It is a location-based service which uses GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi or cellular data to trigger a pre-programmed action when a person or device enters or exits a virtual boundary set up around a geographical location known as a geofence.<\/li><li><strong>Authorisation: <\/strong>Section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act,1885 authorises State or Centre to access information of a user\u2019s phone data in case of occurrence of any public emergency or in the interest of public safety.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Radio-Frequency Identification(RFID):<\/strong>It<strong> <\/strong>is the use of radio waves to read and capture information stored on a tag attached to an object.A tag can be read from up to several feet away and does not need to be within the direct line-of-sight of the reader to be tracked.<\/li><li><strong>Wi-Fi<\/strong>: It is a radio transmission technology that allows digital devices to use high-speed internet without direct cable connections.<\/li><li><strong>Global Positioning System (GPS): <\/strong>It is a U.S.-owned satellite-based radio navigation system that provides users with positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Government of India has planned to use the &#8216;Geo-Fencing App&#8217; to locate quarantine violators. Facts: Geo-fencing:It is a location-based service which uses GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi or cellular data to trigger a pre-programmed action when a person or device enters or exits a virtual boundary set up around a geographical location known as a geofence.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-geo-fencing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Geo-fencing?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2854],"class_list":["post-85496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-geo-fencing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704280722},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}