Turning on Active Worksite™

Our Active Worksite product enables OnStation to report your location in real time in order to highlight active work zones and the workers within those boundaries. This helps improve team coordination and safety by giving visible indicators of when a job site is actively being worked on and how many people are currently working in that construction zone.

Step 1: Open OnStation

Launch the OnStation app on your mobile device.

Select the project you'd like to mark as an active worksite from your "My project" list.

Note: If you recently accessed the project you wish to enable active worksite on, the app will automatically open that project and you will not have to select it from your "My project" list.

Step 2: Go to the Station Finder

Tap the Station finder- When first accessing a project, the station finder will say "stationing unavailable" until you manually jump to an alignment or hover over the cross hair in any section of your project alignments.
This opens the live stationing view that displays stationing information, alignment names and Active Worksite status.

Step 3: Enable Active Worksite

Ensure that the OnStation App has Allow Location Access set to "Always". You can quickly navigate to the App Settings via Tools (gear icon) in upper right corner and navigating to Location -> Open App Permissions / Settings menu.
Once the OnStation App has its Location Access set to Always, GPS will automatically be enabled in the app. This will be indicated by the arrowhead in the upper right portion of your map. (If enabled, the arrowhead will go from a green outline to solid green).

ACTIVE WORKSITE AUTO ENABLING

If a project is opened and the following are all true, Active Worksite icon should Automatically enable:
1. Your organization is licensed for Active Worksite.
2. You have been assigned a license to your user account accessing OnStation
3. You have opened a defined project in the OnStation app
4. GPS is enabled and Location Set to ALWAYS ALLOW
5. The blue location dot is on showing you are within 50 meters of the defined project you have opened
You should then see the shield enabled and an alert advising that the “Active Worksite has been enabled for your Safety”.
You may choose to disable this alert by navigating to the setting menu, find Active Worksite, and toggling "Show Active Worksite Alert" off.

MANUALLY ENABLE ACTIVE WORKSITE

If one or more items 2 - 5 are not true, you can still Enable Active Worksite Manually. To do this Locate the Active Worksite icon in the bottom left corner that looks like a shield, outlined in green.
Toggle Active Worksite "ON" by tapping on that shield
If you are offsite the app will inform you that you are "not onsite and it will create an Active Worksite based on your current location"

You’ll now start broadcasting your location for the project.

How it Works Behind the Scenes:

Once Active Worksite is ON, OnStation reports your location to the system every 30 seconds.
As long as you're within 50 meters of the location you initially enabled Active Worksite, a green dot will appear at your location on the map, showing others you're present at the worksite. From the point you turn on Active Worksite, the map updates almost instantly. Then iCone serves as the liaison to report location updates in 5 minutes increments to our GPS navigation partners such as Waze.

Auto Shutoff: What Happens if You Leave?

If you move more than 50 meters away from your starting point, for more than 30 minutes, your green dot will disappear within seconds of that 30-minute timer expiring. You also have the option to adjust this to be more than or less than 30 minutes.

You will then receive a notification letting you know that your location is no longer being tracked. It's important to note that this will only stop tracking YOUR location. If any of your other teammates who enabled Active Worksite are still within 50 meters of their starting location, their green dots will remain on the project map and continually be reported to iCone & Waze unless they do the same and stray away from their starting point more than 50 meters, and for more than 30 minutes (or adjusted time that you have set).

Why does the app stop tracking my location if I’m away from my worksite for more than 30 Minutes? The app will automatically turn off Active Worksite to:

Save your phone’s battery

Avoid sending unnecessary location data

Protect your privacy

Why Does Active Worksite Not Shut Off Immediately When You Walk Away?

First, to ensure that we provide the most accurate location details to oncoming traffic to keep you guys as safe as possible while onsite. Second, GPS can be inaccurate or drop off temporarily (ex: walking behind a truck or losing signal). To avoid annoying you with constant reactivation prompts or sudden loss of tracking, the app waits a full 30 minutes (or adjusted time that you have set) of inactivity before disabling Active Worksite.

Best Practices:
Turn Active Worksite on when you arrive at a site to help others know where work is happening.

Manually turn it off when you leave for the day, go to lunch, or
are no longer working. Don’t worry if you forget—OnStation has your back with auto shutoff after 30 minutes of inactivity.

Enable "Run in Background" to allow Active Worksite to run in the background if you frequently switch between apps. This will continue to send a location update every 30 seconds.

Learn More about Active Worksite.

From the setting menu (Gear Icon), scroll down to Active Worksite and select Learn More.

This link will direct you to help.onstationapp.com where you can find articles for more information about Active Worksite.