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The Pulsar geolocation feature can be used to automatically track user's device location. This feature is useful for managing store checkinscheck-ins, scheduling nearby service technician visits, or noting the location of client assets, for instance.

Geolocation uses the device's built-in capabilities. Each operating system provides a way for an app to make a call and ask for request the geolocation coordinates. Pulsar uses the system library functions that exist on in iOS, Android and Windows to ask for the current location and we receive the coordinates backfor use in the app. Each of the devices and the operating system implements the systems implement location services in their own way, but often it is a combination of . Usually, the GPS chip (that communicates with the satellite ) and the cell phone tower it is currently usingconnected to the device provides additional location information. The combination of this data provides coordinates which specify the device location

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