The FCC will soon make a ruling on indoor location rules for 911 calls. If you worked in the location industry in the late 1990s, you may remember when the FCC ruled that wireless carriers would have to automatically locate a mobile phone that dialed 911 from the outdoors.
By Kevin Dennehy
With location industry consolidation, several companies are looking at established players to grow niche markets. United Kingdom-based CSR is leveraging several technologies to grow the nascent indoor location market into a powerhouse.
A new Placecast poll indicates that nearly 118 million smartphone owners will be relying on their phones for […]
In the time since my first article on indoor location, I’ve learned that there is a whole lot […]
The new NEO-M8L Automotive Dead Reckoning (ADR) module by u-blox has integrated motion, direction and elevation sensors. The module […]
ION GNSS+ is more than satellite navigation, with lots of options for aiding, augmenting and even replacing GNSS, […]
A number of factors are holding the proximity marketing/indoor positioning markets back: standardization issues, consumer acceptance/privacy, retailer awareness and the technology itself. However, as one location executive put it, it may be the one way that retailers with brick and mortar stores can compete with Amazon and other online giants.
A new survey of more than 1,000 consumers found a dramatic gap between the limited location requirements for […]
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