WiFi Presence

WiFi Presence detects employee attendance by matching connected WiFi clients against device data from your MDM system. It requires no software on employee devices -- detection happens entirely through your WiFi controller and MDM APIs.

How WiFi Presence Works

1. Pult polls your WiFi controller periodically for a list of currently connected clients (MAC address, IP address, access point).
2. Pult syncs device data from your MDM periodically (MAC address, user email, serial number).
3. MAC address matching -- For each WiFi client, Pult looks up the client's MAC address in the MDM device index. If found, the WiFi activity is attributed to the corresponding user.
4. Location determination -- Pult evaluates the location mapping rules to determine which presence location the client belongs to.
5. Presence recording -- If a match is found for both user and location, presence is recorded.

Supported Providers

You can connect multiple WiFi integrations of the same or different types simultaneously. All WiFi client data is combined during the sync process.

Requirements

• A supported WiFi controller with API access.
• At least one MDM integration (or manual device list) to provide device-to-user mappings.
• MAC address randomization must be disabled on managed devices.
• Location mapping rules configured to map WiFi client subnets to presence locations.

Additional Tools

• Location Mapping Rules -- Configure how WiFi client activity is mapped to presence locations based on IP subnets and AP labels.
• WiFi Inspector -- Debug and verify WiFi Presence matching in real time.