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title: Stationary Badge — What Is It
description: Explains how Sitemetric detects stationary badges after 16+ hours of presence and the configuration options to adjust hours, exclude, or change the threshold.
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# Stationary Badge — What Is It
## How stationary badges are detected and the configuration options available to adjust reporting
A **stationary badge** is any badge that remains continuously detected on site for a long, uninterrupted period. By default, a badge becomes stationary when detected for **16 or more consecutive hours** during a single session.
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### How It Works
A session is continuous presence without a **10-hour gap** of no detections.
- It doesn't matter which sensors detect the badge—as long as the system sees uninterrupted presence, the clock continues
- If a badge is detected for 16+ hours straight without a 10-hour break, it will be marked as **stationary**
- Badges generally won't be marked stationary until later in the afternoon, since the full threshold must pass first
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### Configuration Options
> ⚙️ Once a badge becomes stationary, we offer two optional settings to customize behavior.
#### 1. Adjust Stationary Badges
If a badge is routinely marked as stationary but the customer would prefer the report to show a standard shift length (for example, **8 hours**), we can apply an **hour-adjustment setting**.
This setting does **not** change the stationary threshold — the threshold still determines \*when\* the badge becomes stationary (default 16 hours).
Instead, once the badge is marked stationary, the system will **override the reported hours** and replace them with the customer’s designated value (e.g., 8 hours). This helps keep reporting accurate when badges are frequently left on site for extended periods.
#### 2. Exclude From Reporting
Automatically exclude stationary badges from hour-counting reports to prevent inflated totals.
#### 3. Adjust Stationary Threshold
The default stationary threshold is **16 hours**, but this can be customized to any value the customer prefers.
However, threshold changes should be made carefully.
For example, if the threshold is lowered to **8 hours** and the customer also enables **exclude-on-stationary**, then even a worker going just **1 minute over 8 hours**—which is completely normal—would cause their badge to be marked stationary and excluded from reporting. This can result in **significantly inaccurate data**.
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