Posted On: Jun 15, 2023
Amazon Location Service now supports geofence metadata, allowing customers to associate up to three types of additional information (metadata) to a virtual perimeter of a real-world geographical area known as a geofence. With metadata, developers can enrich their applications with properties about each geofence, such as building floor, area designation, route ID, etc., to address use cases such as finding a different floor inside the same geographic boundary.
With geofence metadata, developers can store and retrieve information about a geofence without additional infrastructure or code. When a device crosses a virtual boundary, developers can receive this information on Amazon EventBridge as part of an Entry or Exit event. This enables them to build cost effective applications that react to events associated with a geofence with specific information. For example, a developer building a delivery application can associate a route ID with a geofence around a delivery address, and trigger a delivery notification when a vehicle with the same route ID enters that geofence.
Amazon Location Service is a fully managed service that helps developers easily and securely add maps, points of interest, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to their applications without compromising on data quality, user privacy, or cost.
Amazon Location Service is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo).
To learn more, visit the Amazon Location Service Developer Guide.