The German company Sensorberg offers Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons called “iBeacons” and a SDK for proximity detection.
Bluetooth based Indoor Location
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Indoor Positioning with Wifi and Bluetooth
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MagicMap is a free framework for indoor positioning based on Wifi and Bluetooth signals.
A list of other partly commercial services: Indoor RTLS systems
RFID Based Indoor Location Services
An active RFID based solution: OpenBeacon Active RFID Project – OpenBeacon.
Blog entry on passive solutions. The industry term for this is RTLS (Real time location system): Passive RFID providing RTLS Real-or-hype
two solutions mentioned in the article:
Indoor Location Systems
WiFi based
- WiFiSLAM aquired by Apple: Apple acquires Wifislam
- Navizon
- Redpin (Open Source)
- infsoft
WiFi & Bluetooth based
Ultrasound based
Ultrasound + RF based
Magnetic anomaly-based
RFID (active) based
- OpenBeacon (Open Source)
Blog entry on passive solutions. The industry term for this is RTLS (Real time location system): Passive RFID providing RTLS Real-or-hype
Paper on “Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi Access Point“
Precise indoor smartphone tracking
Shopkick uses the build in microphone of a smartphone, currently iOS or Android based, to triangulate its position via a network of ultrasonic beacons. Other then satellite based systems like GPS this allows a more precise location tracking especially in indoor situations where GPS is not or poorly available. Shopkick did a first installation in a Best Buy in San Francisco as part of a POS application.
See also this article here: technologie review article …
