Compology employs machine learning to match your container's GPS coordinates to a Customer's Service Location. When a container is positioned near one or more service locations, it is sometimes necessary to instruct the machine which location the container should match to. Our "Soft-Lock" feature allows you to "lock" a container to the appropriate location. This "lock" will stay in place until Compology detects that the container has moved to a position that rationally could not be associated to the previously "locked" location.
To lock a container to a nearby location, click on a container, click "View Map" and click "Open Location Settings":
The locations that the container can be locked to will be displayed. If the last post for the container does not have GPS coordinates, you can search which location you would like to lock it to. Select the location to lock the container to it. It is also advised to edit the geo-fence of each location to make them as accurate as possible:
Once locked to a location, the container will continue to be matched to that location for all following posts until the geo-coordinates of the container changes to be 1000 meters from the perimeter of the location it was locked to. This applies to the Data Download and API interfaces as well. It is important to note that if a container posts without geo-coordinates, those posts will get matched to its locked location. This is great for sites where GPS coordinates are intermittent, but it is a possible a container has been moved to a site that does not get GPS coordinates and the lock would not break.
