Update: Stealth Mode Location Tech to be Unveiled Next Week
The press release came out at the end of last week and offers no further information - save that the solution involves “self-learning.”
At the same time Bruce Sterling at Wired is all excited about Nokia’s ongoing “indoor positioning” solutions and Microsoft’s use of Tags (2 D bar codes) to help people navigate indoors. (The two videos failed to excite me.)
I’m getting antsy with all this talk - when will these technologies (and the tech from Rosum that uses TV signals for the same purposes) be in use?
—- original post 9/11/09——
The company is called GloPos and it’s expected to come out of stealth mode next week. Its killer tech? A solution for locating handsets that requires no GPS or wi-fi. Instead it uses cell tower information - but it’s far more accurate than old school algorithms. Further, it’ll run on pretty much any phone (even those older ones in drawers…) with 1-40 meter accuracy, indoors, outdoors and underground. The handset sends a data chunk to servers to prompt return of location information.
How the company will offer the tech (to handset makers, to carriers, etc.) is unclear. The company is a spin off for 4TS in Finland and is headed by two guys with experience at Nokia and Ericsson.
- GigaOm
