Most safety software records that a briefing happened. It does not record where. That gap matters when a general contractor asks which crew was on which site, or when an incident investigation turns on whether a worker was present at the location they signed for.
The worker's own device reports its position when they scan. Location is not entered by a supervisor after the fact, and it is not inferred from a site record. It is measured, at the time, on the phone that was there.
Every coordinate is compared to the jobsite geofence. A check-in from two miles away is flagged rather than quietly accepted. With strict geofencing enabled, it is rejected outright instead of becoming a record that looks valid until someone examines it.
Coordinates are written with the photo and a SHA-256 hash at the moment the record is created. Altering the location afterward breaks the hash chain visibly, which is the difference between a log and evidence.
Owners see live positions on the dashboard map. Auditors get the coordinates in the one-click export, formatted alongside the photo and timestamp for each named worker.
Accuracy comes from the worker's device and typically lands within a few meters outdoors, which is well inside a normal jobsite geofence. Arkvos records the coordinates as reported and compares them to the site boundary rather than asserting a precision the device did not provide.
The check-in is flagged as outside the boundary. If strict geofencing is enabled for that site, it is refused instead of recorded, so an off-site scan never becomes a valid attendance record. Either way the discrepancy is visible rather than buried.
No. Arkvos captures a single position at the moment of check-in and nothing afterward. There is no background tracking, no worker app running in the background, and no location history between briefings. Workers do not install anything at all.
The record is sealed with a SHA-256 hash when it is written. Any later change breaks the chain and is detectable, which is what allows the record to be used as evidence rather than treated as an editable spreadsheet.
Yes. The browser asks for location when they scan, the same prompt any website uses. If permission is refused, the check-in is recorded without a verified position and is marked as such, so the gap is visible in the audit trail rather than assumed away.
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