Overview

Introduction

Welcome to NearX!

NearX is the Location Intelligence Platform. With NearX you can add location context to your apps with just a few lines of code and use customer's location to provide better engagement and user experience.

In this overview, we introduce you to core concepts of NearX platform, namely four context types (Geofences, Groups, Places & Hotspots) and NearX developer tools (SDK & API Integrations).

The rest of the documentation explains these concepts more in detail.

Glossary

  • Location: Any latitude & longitude point on the surface of the earth.
  • Geofence: Area around a Location pertaining to a certain radii (lat,long & radius)
  • Group: Collection of Geofences
  • Hotspot: Geofence with fixed radius (50m)
  • Place: Single Geofence with additional data (eg: StoreID) [OR] Single Geofence associated with hotspots

Quickstart

onboard nearx

  • Register - Onboard by simplying signing up with us here.

  • Add Context - Generate contextual events by creating Geofences & Groups.

  • Create Apps - Generate key for your own iOS/Android app in our console.

  • Start Tracking - Download & Integrate the SDK to start tracking users.

  • Handle Events - Handle events client-side or server-side via webhooks or integrations.

Integration made easy

Geofences

NearX geofencing is more powerful than native iOS or Android geofencing, with cross-platform support for unlimited geofences, grouping geofences, and dwell time detection.

Create geofences to receive the sample data like below

  •   {
        "app_name": "NearXApp",
        "fence_radii": [100],
        "fence_name": "SPAR SuperMarket Bangalore",
        "fence_canonical_name": "SPAR SuperMarket Bangalore:100:GEOFENCE",
        "fence_type": "N",
        "expiry": "2019-07-02T13:50:03.643Z",
        "groupIds": [1],
        "customer_id": "8939407232",
        "type": "GEOFENCE_ENTRY",
        "accuracy": "80%"
    }

Learn more about Geofences.


Groups

NearX can tell you when a customer visits a place, chain, or category, even if you haven't set up a geofence for that place.

NearX is integrated with Google Places, the same places database that powers Google Maps and Apps. We can also ingest and curate place data from other sources, providing you with a comprehensive set of options to detect user's location.

Learn more about Groups.

Developer tools

You can integrate NearX with your apps using our developer tools: the SDK, the API, Integrations.

SDK

  • Integrate the SDK into your iOS and Android apps to start tracking users and generating events. The SDK abstracts away cross-platform differences between location services on iOS and Android, allowing you to add location context and tracking to your apps with just a few lines of code.

  • Learn more about the SDK.


API

  • You can access all of your NearX data, including users, events, geofences, and Groups, via the API. You might use the API to list users in a specific geofence, or to create geofences programmatically.

  • Learn more about the API.

Sample Applications

You can use our Sample apps for iOS and Android to test NearX before integrating the SDK, or to test your implementation of NearX side-by-side with a complete implementation.

Learn more about the Sample apps.

Support

Have questions after reading the documentation? Contact us here