Geo-fence Notification for Real Estate Showing Completion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Homeowners often cannot be notified automatically when a real estate showing is complete, as real estate agents may forget to communicate or lack a means to contact them, and existing technologies require on-premise dialers or cellular connections which may not be available.
Innovation Solution
A notification system that determines the location of an electronic lockbox, generates a geo-fence environment, monitors user device movements, and sends automatic real-time notifications to the property owner when the user has left the property, using data parameters from the lockbox, database, or web-based services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real estate agents manually contact homeowners to notify them when a showing is complete, then communication can be established, but agents may forget to communicate or lack a means to contact the homeowner
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic notification where the electronic lockbox and notification system self-monitor and self-notify the homeowner when the agent leaves the property, eliminating the need for the agent to manually remember or initiate contact. The system serves itself by using geo-fence detection to automatically trigger notifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where the notification system continuously monitors the agent's location via geo-fence and automatically sends notifications to the homeowner when the agent exits the property boundaries, ensuring reliable communication without requiring active agent participation.
2Reliability
If existing notification technologies are used, then notifications can be sent, but on-premise dialers or cellular connections are required which may not be available at the property
Solution Approach 1:
The solution extracts the notification capability from the property infrastructure and relocates it to the agent's mobile device. The notification system runs on the agent's smartphone using existing cellular service, eliminating the need for on-premise dialers or cellular connections at the property.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system leverages the agent's existing mobile device and cellular service for multiple functions including location tracking, geo-fence monitoring, and notification delivery, eliminating the need for property-specific communication infrastructure.
3Reliability
If the real estate agent pushes a button on the box to initiate notification, then the notification can be triggered, but agents often forget to push the button
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic lockbox and notification system automatically monitor the agent's location and trigger notifications without requiring any manual button pressing. The system self-activates when geo-fence detection determines the agent has left the property.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures geo-fence boundaries and notification triggers in advance, so that when the agent naturally leaves the property, the notification is automatically triggered based on pre-established parameters, eliminating the need for manual intervention at the moment of departure.
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AI summary
A notification system, method, and/or computer program product that provides an automatic real-time notification to an owner of a property is provided. Further the notification system, method, and/or computer program determines a location with respect to an electronic lockbox associated with the property and generates a geo-fence environment with respect to the property based on the location. Then, the notification system, method, and/or computer program monitors movements of a user device with respect to the geo-fence environment to determine whether a breach of the geo-fence environment has occurred and outputs the automatic real-time notification to the property owner in response to a determination that the breach of the geo-fence environment has occurred.