Geolocation Tracking Features

This feature is currently in BETA, and is only available to a small group of users for pre-release access.

If you wish to participate in early access, please contact support@currentware.com

Using Geolocation

Geolocation allows the geographical location of your user’s computers to be tracked, providing insights into the physical location of data and employees, ensuring compliance with data residency and work location requirements.

Locations used by your users will be presented in the Locations dashboard, notably in two widgets, showing the regions (states) as a pie chart, as well as in tabular format along with the number of groups that have logged in at each location.

The Activity Log > Geography tab will show a breakdown of the locations by group

How does it work

The CurrentWare client utilizes the Windows Location Service, which is built in to Windows 11 and Windows 10 machines.  This uses the available sensors on the computer to provide location information to applications that request it.  It uses a variety of sensors, including Wifi, cellular network and GPS if available.

Location tracking is provided by the enPowerManager module, so the location is requested from Windows Location Services at the point of user login.  User login covers several events, such as a user logging into Windows from startup, and unlocking from the Windows lock screen after sleep or hibernate.

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