May 15, 2008

WiPS: WiFi GPS

by Piers Fawkes

WIPSA German software company called Spotigo has announced that it can locate someone with an accuracy of up to 1 meter just using WiFi networks. The press release says that WiFi-based Positioning Solution (WiPS) sets new standards in positioning accuracy by identifying the user’s position based on WiFi signal patterns that are connected by WiFi devices (such as PDAs, mobile phones, tablet PCs, laptops, etc.) or WiFi-tagged persons(!) and material. They say it’s better that satellite GPS in cities because of the limitations imposed by high buildings and narrow streets and that it will be possible to offer location-aware content on all mobile devices even if they don’t have GPS.

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One Response to “WiPS: WiFi GPS”

  1. dave
    Posted from: 68.111.85.222

    May 15th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    very neat technology…combine that with a great mobile fone app and u social networking can get really exciting, i use twinkle from my iphone, which is a great application of twitter, check out http://www.incubaker.com/tank/2007/07/mobile-proximity-networking/
    for more about advantages of mobile proximity networking. would love to see this WiPS tied in with mobile networking apps…

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