System for selecting the tracking technique for tracking a user device based on user device proximity to location beacons

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:

• selecting, by a location tracing server, between a first location tracking technique and a second location tracking technique used to track a user device based on receiving a communications signal emitted from the user device via one or more network device;
• determining, by the location tracing server that the user device is outside communications range of the one or more network devices based on an analysis of a signal characteristic of the communication signal emitted from the user device;
• selecting, by the location tracing server, the second tracking location technique based on the determining that the user device is outside communications range of the one or more network devices;
• monitoring location information of the user device based on the selecting between the first location tracking technique and the second location tracking technique;
• and
• storing or outputting the location information.

A system comprising:

• a processor, a computer readable memory, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium associated with a computing device, and program instructions executable by the computing device to cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:
• selecting, by a location tracing server, between a first location tracking technique and a second location tracking technique used to track a user device based on receiving a communications signal emitted from the user device via one or more network device;
• determining, by the location tracing server that the user device is outside communications range of the one or more network devices based on an analysis of a signal characteristic of the communication signal emitted from the user device;
• selecting, by the location tracing server, the second tracking location technique based on the determining that the user device is outside communications range of the one or more network devices;
• monitoring location information of the user device based on the selecting between the first location tracking technique and the second location tracking technique;
• and
• storing or outputting the location information.