tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51610925759170917052024-03-05T05:51:59.616-05:00Grizzly Analytics BlogExplaining and predicting technology trends in the mobile industry, especially related to indoor location and Internet of Things technologies.Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-81717668222865399552021-03-01T14:31:00.003-05:002021-03-01T14:31:49.756-05:0033 Indoor Location Related Start-up Acquisitions<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acquisitions Continue in the Indoor Location Industry; Grizzly Analytics Shows Price Growth at the High End and Continuity at the Low End</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e06f0f86-7fff-2a01-eca0-5ab0ff03f7e9"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York, NY, February 22, 2021 -</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Despite the recent pandemic, M&A deals in the indoor location area have maintained a steady pace of 4-5 deals a year. At the high end of the spectrum, prices have increased to up to $400 Million for the highest priced recent deal and $165 Million for the second highest. At the lower end, many earlier stage companies have been acquired in the $2-3 Million range. A </span><a href="https://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2021_02_indoor_acquisitions.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">newly updated report from Grizzly Analytics</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> gives prices and strategic details for 33 acquisitions in the indoor location area. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While the highest priced indoor location acquisitions have historically involved chip-based technologies, recent acquisitions have been more varied. “A few years ago the focus of indoor location M&A was all around pure localization technologies. The biggest deal to date is in fact for a chip-based localization technology company with strong market share. But a large number of deals in the past two years have been for application layer companies, enabling acquirers that already have localization to better bring their solutions to market.” says Bruce Krulwich, founder of Grizzly Analytics.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Previous Grizzly Analytics reports predicted the acquisitions of Decawave and indoo.rs before they took place, and this updated report includes new predictions about the indoor location industry segments and specific companies likely for acquisitions in 2021. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More information on this report and other reports from Grizzly Analytics can be found at </span><a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.grizzlyanalytics.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><br /><br /></span>Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-90485649606351184232019-07-03T16:50:00.004-04:002019-07-03T16:50:52.216-04:00Updated report on indoor location related start-up acquisitions<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Newly updated report on Indoor Location Related Acquisitions! 4 new deals since our prev report and new data on old ones. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Infrastructure-free indoor location positioning technologies offer short term evolution and long term revolution. The short term evolution is the ability to deploy indoor localization in a site without having to install, configure and maintain infrastructure of beacons or locator devices. The longer term revolution is the ability for mass market applications and devices to position themselves universally, in any site worldwide, without any deliberate configuration for each site.</span></div>
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This report profiles technologies from eleven companies with infrastructure-free indoor location solutions on the market. We also profile related R&D from Apple, Google, Facebook and others that is not on the market as solutions but may bring universal positioning to mass market reality.</div>
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Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-87351335650720228502018-05-09T03:32:00.002-04:002018-05-09T03:32:47.537-04:00Indoor location technologies, companies and use-cases, on the Mr Beacon podcastIt was an honor to be invited to the <a href="https://www.mister-beacon.com/blog/location-technology" target="_blank">Mr Beacon podcast</a>, to discuss indoor location technologies, companies and use-cases. What a wide ranging conversation!<br />
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<br />Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-27683447690413940892018-04-22T18:19:00.002-04:002018-04-28T16:01:53.436-04:00Decawave Investment Signals a Future of Location-Aware Electronics<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Decawave <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/02/prweb15224870.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">announced recently</a> a $30 Million investment, marking a huge push forward for location-based Internet of Things (IoT) products and solutions. The investment also underscores the growing strength of China in the manufacturing of location-aware electronics.</div>
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<a href="http://www.decawave.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Decawave</a> is a leading producer of chips and hardware components for ultra-wideband (UWB) radio, which is used for high accuracy localization of devices and tags, mainly in indoor settings. Decawave’s customers use Decawave chips to make a large variety of location-aware electronics. These electronic devices and appliances, including robots, drones, robotic cameras, shopping carts and more, use Decawave’s chips to measure their own locations as they move around indoor sites where GPS signals are not available.</div>
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Of the <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2017_01_indoor.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">roughly 200 companies in the indoor location market</a>, very few are selling localization technology in chip form that can be incorporated into electronic appliances. Most of the indoor location market is focused on solutions that can be deployed in sites or on smartphones. Decawave is positioned to dominate the market for chip-based localization.</div>
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The investment round was led by <a href="http://www.abven.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Atlantic Bridge Ventures</a>, joined by <a href="http://westsummitcap.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">West Summit Capital</a>, <a href="http://actventure.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">ACT Ventures</a>, <a href="http://zzcapitalinternational.com/en/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">ZZ Ventures</a>, <a href="https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Enterprise Ireland</a> and others. Several of the funds have ties to Ireland, where Decawave is based. Most significantly, West Summit and ZZ Ventures are based in China, and this investment round accompanies news that Decawave is opening a new office in Shenzen, China.</div>
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Decawave’s focus on China is important to understand. It does not mean that the target market for location-aware electronics products is the Chinese market. The target market is worldwide. But it does mean that a huge segment of manufacturers of cutting edge electronics are in China. Chinese manufacturers have demonstrated tremendous growth recently in bringing innovative electronics to market, including robots and drones, and are able to move from concept to manufacturing very fast, often within a year, compared to 2-3 years in many other countries.</div>
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Several of Decawave’s Chinese clients are reportedly developing robots and drones that automatically follow their user, or that navigate automatically from place to place. These actions require precise localization, either within a map of a site or relative to a user. Decawave’s UWB technology enables localization to an accuracy of 10-15cm, with a very fast update rate, as required for applications of this sort.</div>
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Decawave is not without competition in delivering accurate localization to the Internet of Things and electronics markets. Finland-based <a href="http://quuppa.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Quuppa</a> recently <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180227005100/en/Quuppa-Launches-Powerful-Tag-Module-Precision-Location" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">introduced a hardware component product</a>, called the Quuppa Tag Module, that enables their unique angle-of-arrival (AoA) technology to be embedded in electronic devices. Like UWB, Quuppa’s technology delivers localization to within 15-20cm, and is starting to be incorporated into third-party products in the Internet of Things market. But Decawave's technology is available in purely chip form with a wide range of deployment options.</div>
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Congratulations to Decawave on the investment. Congratulations to electronics manufacturers worldwide on having a stronger base from which to buy location-awareness. And to consumers worldwide interested in the next generation of location-aware electronics: just wait, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.</div>
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Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-28010188538389020782017-07-06T17:03:00.000-04:002017-07-10T14:16:29.736-04:00See great indoor location tech from the 2017 testbedThe <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFQQRZPzGXeZXeO54T7EQIudxuhrfoK_X" target="_blank">videos</a> from the Indoor Location Testbed at GeoIoT World 2017 are now released! Here is your chance to see how these solutions performed in our real-world evaluation, in the videos below. The testbed evaluated each solution by walking around a real-world venue, the GeoIoT World 2017 conference, measuring performance at 10 pre-selected points.<br />
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Let's start with <a href="https://www.blooloc.com/" target="_blank">BlooLoc's</a> tag-based solution, which achieved accuracy under 2m in real-time and under 1.5m after stabilization:<br />
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Then let's look at the infrastructure-free solution from <a href="http://www.gipstech.com/" target="_blank">GipsTech</a>, which achieved accuracy under 2m without using any beacons or radio signals:<br />
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Next is GipsTech's solution with BLE added:<br />
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Next is BlooLoc's phone-based solution:<br />
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Finally, we see Accuware's solution, the only one to incorporate camera-based computer vision technology:<br />
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The <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2017_06_testbed.html" target="_blank">testbed report</a> also includes testbed evaluations from the 2016 indoor location testbed, making this report the best way to learn about the performance of indoor location solutions on the market.<br />
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<br />Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-20784725980741468352017-06-29T19:08:00.000-04:002017-06-29T19:08:15.799-04:00Why I'm Buying the OnePlus Five<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Every iPhone release is followed quickly by a rage of articles by iFans who are sure it will be the best thing ever and iCynics who disagree. The number of articles by fans of other devices or device-makers pales by comparison. So I decided to write an article on why I'm excited by the just-announced <a href="https://oneplus.net/5" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">OnePlus Five</a>.</div>
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I rarely buy a new device before my old one dies. Not that I don't want to - I've seen all the new models at the Mobile World Congress most years, and love gadgets, but I rarely find it worth jumping to a new device, reinstalling all my apps and getting it just as I like it, just for minor improvements that don't change my experience much.</div>
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So why do I want the OnePlus Five when my current OnePlus Two works perfectly well? In honor of the OnePlus Five, I'm giving five reasons.</div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reason one: RAM rules</span></h2>
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I bought the OnePlus Two because it had 4gig of RAM when none of the other top phones did. In fact, it took the market leaders over a year to catch up. I am convinced that RAM makes more of a difference in my phone experience than anything else. The ability to react instantly, with lots of apps running, is due to RAM. The ability to perform well with many apps requiring constant background services, like messaging and calling apps, is due to RAM. RAM is more important than CPU or storage or any of the other things people look at.</div>
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The top smartphone makers are just now catching up with my OnePlus Two's 4gig of RAM. Phone sites don't even have the option for searching for phones with 8gig. So I want it. This is what will keep a phone zipping along for the next two years.</div>
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Reason two: Camera</h2>
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I take a lot of pictures and videos, and in the past two years these have all been on my OnePlus Two. When I released <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFQQRZPzGXeasXU-h3OCxxj5FgqWRmIPt" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">13 videos from the Mobile World Congress</a> a few months ago, they were all shot on my OnePlus. Same with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ1mHN4TpGZGdBmFduNHNv20qVrQ4-s2b" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">videos from the 2016 Indoor Location Testbed</a> (videos from the 2017 testbed are coming soon). I need a phone with a camera that will work well, for professional use. The OnePlus Two's camera has been great, and the OnePlus Five is set to be even better, especially in low light.</div>
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While I'm at it, here's the morning scene from my hotel balcony in Barcelona.</div>
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Interestingly, the camera is one area where OnePlus seems to be innovating strongly. Their two cameras working together on the OnePlus Five is the best new idea I've seen in phone cameras in years. I look forward to it.</div>
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Reason three: Build Quality</h2>
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Build Quality is a phrase you don't hear often enough in the phone industry. But it matters. Two phones can have the same specs, but one will last one year and one will last three. The reason is build quality.</div>
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My OnePlus Two has lasted me several years, and still runs great. 'Nuff said.</div>
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Reason four: Battery</h2>
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These days, battery life is critical. How many of us can make it through a busy work day on a single charge? 3300 mAH and the ability to charge 50% in 30 minutes sounds great.</div>
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Reason five: Being part of a disruption</h2>
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I think OnePlus is going to do disruptive things. To date their innovations have been in RAM and (hopefully) camera, along with direct to market sales and top quality at good prices. I expect they will have more disruptions to come. </div>
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Think about it. How many innovations have you seen in smartphones recently? Not enough. A bit bigger, a new CPU, a few more megapixels. But phones still work pretty similarly to how they worked 2-3 years ago.</div>
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A few years ago, at the Mobile World Congress, there were a number of small entrants in the smartphone industry that were trying to disrupt the market. There was a device with a camera that swiveled on a hinge. There was a device with an e-ink screen on the back. There were devices with offbeat shapes. None of these have really taken off. But OnePlus is succeeding at grabbing its niche, there trying to disrupt. I'm a fan. I think they will have great things to come. </div>
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Interested in more about OnePlus? If you <a href="https://oneplus.net/invite#3RGUN61KZPK4HE" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">click here on my referrer link</a>, OnePlus will give you $20 off on accessories after you buy a phone. Or you can <a href="https://oneplus.net/5" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">click here</a> to see the OnePlus Five page with no referrer link.</div>
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Whether you agree with me or not, keep an eye on OnePlus. The features you see now are likely to be mainstream in 2 years. What will OnePlus be doing then? I look forward to seeing.</div>
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The second Indoor Location Testbed, run by Grizzly Analytics at <a href="http://www.geoiotworld.com/testbed" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">GeoIot World 2017</a>, confirms for the second year that indoor location solutions are beating the previously established industry norms in all metrics of performance. Solutions evaluated this year achieved below 2 meter accuracy, in smartphone and in tag tracking, both with BLE beacons and infrastructure-free. Solutions deployed in under one hour setup. Solutions detected floor changes and maintained positioning accuracy while moving on stairs. Solutions achieved fast first location fixes within seconds of starting. All of these were evaluated and confirmed by our testbed staff, as detailed in this report.</div>
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<a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2017_06_testbed.html" target="_blank">The 2017 testbed evaluated five solutions</a>: One based on BLE tags, four on smartphones. One smartphone solution runs infrastructure-free, one incorporates camera-based image processing, and two blend BLE beacons with motion sensing.</div>
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This Indoor Location Testbed is the only such testbed to evaluate a wide range of metrics. While others focus exclusively on a single measurement of accuracy, the analysis below examines real-time accuracy, accuracy after stabilization, time to stabilization, consistency, setup time, infrastructure required, time to first fix, floor detection, proximity detection, and more. In this way, the results reflecting the wide range of things that are important to sites deploying indoor location technology.</div>
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The testbed evaluation shows that <a href="http://www.blooloc.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">BlooLoc's</a> tag-based solution achieves real-time accuracy better than 2 meters, and accuracy after stabilization under 1.5 meters. <a href="http://www.gipstech.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">GipsTech's</a> infrastructure-free solution also achieves accuracy of under 2 meters. <a href="http://www.accuware.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="+blank">Accuware's</a> solution required less than one hour setup time, drastically less than others. Performance of these and other solutions are detailed in this report below.</div>
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The two years of Indoor Location Testbeds have evaluated 12 solutions from 9 companies. More than a competition for scores, this testbed series details how market-leading companies are drastically outperforming the industry norms from only three years ago. Consistent accuracy better than two meters, setup in under one hour, high accuracy without beacons, fast initial location fixes, and more, are all achievements that seemed unattainable, but are now being reached by multiple testbed participants in real-world conditions.</div>
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Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-8165716490317730042017-05-21T14:10:00.001-04:002017-05-21T14:10:17.646-04:00Not too late for the 2017 Indoor Location Testbed!It's not too late to participate in the Indoor Location Testbed at GeoIoT World 2017!<br />
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The testbed will be seen by the GeoIoT World participants, including representatives from Sony, Bosch, Aruba, ABI Research, Philips, Cisco, TomTom, Qualcomm, European Space Agency, European GNSS Agency, Ericsson, Proctor & Gamble Services, Orange, Yandex, and many more. Where else will you have an opportunity to demo to so many interested people, from top companies, devoting their days to Geolocalization and IoT?<br />
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The Testbed also offers you the opportunity to be evaluated in the testbed report, appear in articles on industry sites, and get quotable comments from Grizzly Analytics regarding your solution's strengths and benefits.<br />
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To discuss participation in the testbed, you can e-mail us at <a href="mailto:info@grizzlyanalytics.com">info@grizzlyanalytics.com</a>, call us at +1-908-827-1580, chat with us live at <a href="http://m.me/GrizzlyAnalytics">http://m.me/GrizzlyAnalytics</a> or e-mail the GeoIoT World organizer at <a href="mailto:rbricaire@strategiestm.com">rbricaire@strategiestm.com</a><br />
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<br />Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-23071363959513424732017-05-07T15:11:00.001-04:002017-05-09T14:16:26.419-04:00Only one month until the 2017 Testbed!<h1>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The 2nd annual <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.geoiotworld.com/testbed" href="http://www.geoiotworld.com/testbed" target="_blank">Grizzly Analytics Indoor Location Testbed</a>, part of the 2017 GeoIoT World Conference, will be held one month from today, June 7 and 8, in Brussels.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the ONLY testbed in the indoor location industry that evaluates solutions by more than a half dozen metrics. Other "contests" relate only to real-time accuracy, which doesn't reflect the many real-world considerations that venue owners have in selecting indoor location solutions. Our testbed evaluates real-time accuracy, stabilized accuracy, consistency, latency, set-up time in person-hours and total hours, proximity detection accuracy and time, indoor/outdoor integration, floor change detection, and more.<br /><br />Want your solution to be validated in the metrics in which it shines? Whatever makes your solution unique, our testbed can measure it and validate your performance. <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.geoiotworld.com/testbed" href="http://www.geoiotworld.com/testbed" target="_blank">Click here to download the specifications and register</a>.<br /><br />Want to see how a wide variety of solutions perform in these many metrics? <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.geoiotworld.com/" href="http://www.geoiotworld.com/" target="_blank">Attend the conference</a> or <a data-cke-saved-href="http://eepurl.com/cNXepb" href="http://eepurl.com/cNXepb" target="_blank">stay tuned for the after-conference report</a>.<br /><br />Have any questions? <a href="mailto:info@grizzlyanalytics.com" target="_blank">E-mail us</a> or <a href="http://m.me/GrizzlyAnalytics" target="_blank">chat with us</a> now!<br /><br />We look forward to seeing you in Brussels!</span>Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-67006442064510893252017-03-30T19:23:00.001-04:002017-03-30T19:23:09.259-04:00Coming soon: 2017 Indoor Location Testbed<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEx7_pYcwBUgJxgXQykJVuOMh77kWOTEna1rX_RO7t5eK_Z4fLXVpAdneu5vDU4x0a7RyP6qtopdcJCHQqumIYZQmWjhvJled4T18-kkbH5gsV6Q6eP7HZo9v7Ro3H0QuBpn3wkvmk1VP9/s1600/excerpt+1+-+measuring+-+screen+overlaid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEx7_pYcwBUgJxgXQykJVuOMh77kWOTEna1rX_RO7t5eK_Z4fLXVpAdneu5vDU4x0a7RyP6qtopdcJCHQqumIYZQmWjhvJled4T18-kkbH5gsV6Q6eP7HZo9v7Ro3H0QuBpn3wkvmk1VP9/s320/excerpt+1+-+measuring+-+screen+overlaid.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Coming soon in June: 2nd Grizzly Analytics indoor location testbed at the GeoIoT World conference in Brussels. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7Dh-cAdgkv6ZFQdHGBtqKd8cue3pjh6OF0Oxzf3EMUA43gyHzUidaA8DlPSKN4M_bk-djOFKVCbbO3Ds2enXZA-_rprsSefW-7c-39_wQZg3WXxXjMiL6hPWntR2iuqcIE1y0EekmSoQ/s1600/testbed-in-action.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7Dh-cAdgkv6ZFQdHGBtqKd8cue3pjh6OF0Oxzf3EMUA43gyHzUidaA8DlPSKN4M_bk-djOFKVCbbO3Ds2enXZA-_rprsSefW-7c-39_wQZg3WXxXjMiL6hPWntR2iuqcIE1y0EekmSoQ/s320/testbed-in-action.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first testbed was great, with ten solutions from eight companies evaluated by a wide variety of metrics. And the second will be even better!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.geoiotworld.com/testbed" target="_blank">Click here</a> to get details and register now! Or <a href="mailto:info@grizzlyanalytics.com" target="_blank">e-mail us</a> with any questions.</span>Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-12715653397203613062017-03-25T19:01:00.001-04:002017-03-30T16:02:18.948-04:0033 Indoor Location Technologies at Mobile World Congress 2017The number of companies exhibiting indoor location technologies at the 2017 Mobile World Congress (MWC) skyrocketed to 33!<br />
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Before MWC started, we released our Guide to Indoor Location at MWC, with 23 companies:<br />
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During the conference we notified our guide recipients of 10 other indoor location exhibitors that we saw. (<a href="http://eepurl.com/ctuIkb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up here</a> to receive our guide and to be on our mailing list for next year's MWC.)<br />
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This is many more indoor location related exhibits that previous years. The area is growing by leaps and bounds! Our <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2017_01_indoor.html" target="_blank">recent report on indoor location technologies</a> analyzed and profiled almost 200 companies!<br />
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Here are some videos, so you can see the technologies in action, followed by a list of the other indoor location companies that were at MWC.<br />
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First up is Philips Lighting, with high-accuracy indoor location positioning based on LED light modulation and visible light communication (VLC) technology:<br />
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Next comes Estimote, makers of Bluetooth (BLE) beacons, who introduced self-mapping beacons:<br />
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Next comes Quuppa, whose technology we have reported in the past, with their high-accuracy location positioning based on Bluetooth angle-of-arrival (AoA) technology:<br />
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Next comes MarvelMind, a relative newcomer, showing high-accuracy location positioning technology based on ultrasonic sound:<br />
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Next up is another relative newcomer, Situm, with location positioning based on motion sensing (a.k.a. inertial navigation, pedestrian dead reckoning) combined with radio signals of opportunity:<br />
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Next is Yap, a major company from the Far East now moving into Western markets, with proximity solution based also on ultrasonic sound:<br />
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Next is a solution from Qualigon, using BLE-based technology from Fraunhofer:<br />
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Next is i2Cat, who we have also reported before, with technology based on LED modulation:<br />
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Next up is Comba, with network-based location positioning technology that positions all Wi-Fi devices in range:<br />
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Next is proximity technology based on modulated LED lighting (VLC) from Oledcomm:<br />
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So far we've shown videos from 11 companies. The other 22 indoor location companies at MWC 2017 were:<br />
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<li>Cisco: The networking giant is expanding their network-based location positioning and analytics</li>
<li>Vodafone: IoT localization based on narrowband radio</li>
<li>Orange: BLE-based proximity sensing</li>
<li>Pole Star: This BLE-based positioning and mapping company also supplied the indoor location positioning for the MWC app</li>
<li>MOCA: Indoor location services</li>
<li>indoo.rs: this indoor location company was telling people about their SLAM-based self-learning technology</li>
<li>OnYourMap: We have reported on this positioning company in past years</li>
<li>Planet Intus: A more recent entrant, with several technologies in their solution</li>
<li>Aisle411: We've reported on this retail application focused company before</li>
<li>Pointr Labs: Indoor location positioning</li>
<li>InsiderNavigation: Indoor location positioning</li>
<li>Combain: Location positioning based on cellular and Wi-Fi signals</li>
<li>Sensewhere: Crowdsourcing based indoor location positioning</li>
<li>Kerlink: Indoor location for IoT</li>
<li>Tile: Tags for thing-finding</li>
<li>xAd: Proximity advertising</li>
<li>Navigine: Indoor location positioning based on BLE and sensors</li>
<li>BriteYellow: Location positioning based on augmented reality</li>
<li>Fathom: Beacon management services</li>
<li>predict.io: Proximity and indoor location based marketing and promotion.</li>
<li>BeaconInside: BLE-based proximity marketing and geofencing</li>
<li>Xtremepush: Indoor marketing and geofencing based on BLE</li>
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<br />Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-25011533905765135412017-01-23T10:44:00.003-05:002017-01-23T10:44:42.830-05:00The year indoor location will truly take off<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 3.2rem; margin-top: 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
For years I've been writing sentences like "this will be the year that indoor location will explode into the market." I, and many others, have been expecting indoor location technology to enable the huge range of location-enabled apps, which currently work only outside where GPS signals are available, to work inside. But until now the promise of indoor location has remained a promise.</div>
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But if we look at the reasons for this, we'll see that it is about to change. 2017 and 2018 are poised to be the years that the challenges keeping indoor location from going mainstream will be solved.</div>
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First is accuracy. Most indoor location technologies until a year or so ago had accuracy in the range of 4 to 8 meters. This sounds good in principle, and in fact is better than GPS in many cases. But GPS systems are able to use road details to hide their inaccuracies, so that the blue dot seems to follow your driving car almost perfectly. But indoors, this sort of inaccuracy means your phone thinking you're on the wrong aisle of a supermarket or in front of the wrong counter at the food court. Bottom line, the user experience we all want requires more accuracy.</div>
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Second is setup and configuration. Most indoor location systems on the market in the past few years have been based on Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE, BLE beacons are fairly cheap, and can be installed throughout a site, every 30-40 meters, to give better performance (or so is believed) than Wi-Fi based systems. But installing this many beacons, and mapping the site to measure the Bluetooth signals at each point in the site, takes a lot of time. This is especially true for big sites.</div>
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Third, all the indoor location technologies reaching market recently have come from small start-up companies. Are these companies able to deliver the solutions that the market will want, and maintain them at all the sites at which their technology is being deployed? Can the companies developing the core technology also handle the load of deploying it at sites worldwide, integrating it with existing site applications, and maintaining it?</div>
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A <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2017_01_indoor.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">new report from Grizzly Analytics</a> shows that all of these factors are now solved in a growing number of solutions reaching market. First, accuracies of 2-3 meters are becoming increasingly common in the market. (This was shown in the <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2016_06_testbed.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">2016 Indoor Location Testbed</a>.) Second, several new technologies have reduced considerably the setup and configuration time required, including SLAM, crowdsourcing, infrastructure-free positioning, and more. Third, ongoing M&A is bringing indoor location technologies into the hands of major companies, and the ecosystem is maturing into a form in which one set of companies is delivering technology and another set is deploying it in the market.</div>
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All of these factors indicate that 2017 will be the year that indoor location technologies can truly deliver what the market wants. The real explosion may take until 2018, but it is happening.</div>
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Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-38116252118308683652017-01-11T13:57:00.002-05:002017-01-11T13:57:21.661-05:00Newly updated comprehensive report on indoor location technologies<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">NEWLY UPDATED: Comprehensive Report on Indoor Location Technologies</span><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2017_01_indoor.html">http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2017_01_indoor.html </a></span></div>
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<br />The indoor location area is exploding, and will soon reach a tipping point in adoption.</div>
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The above line has been the opening sentiment of Grizzly Analytics reports on Indoor Location since 2011, when our first report on indoor location was published. The logic has always been clear: The numbers of companies deploying their solutions in trials skyrocketed each year, and mobile app users are so dependent on outdoor location awareness in their mobile apps that the demand for indoor is clear.</div>
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Unfortunately, while the number of indoor location solutions reaching market has risen dramatically, the number of indoor location systems entering true commercial use, beyond trials or experiments, has not yet truly taken off.</div>
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Why hasn't indoor location taken off yet? Will it? When?</div>
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Grizzly Analytics believes that the answer is multifaceted but a resounding YES. Four challenges have been preventing indoor location technologies from crossing the chasm. And all four are now reaching tipping points, with solutions profiled in this report solving the challenges successfully. With these challenges solved, the industry can truly reach its huge potential.</div>
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First, many indoor location systems are achieving significantly better accuracy than was achieved 2-3 years ago.</div>
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Second, many solutions today are requiring less tedious setup and configuration than was previously required. This includes use of SLAM and crowdsourcing technologies.</div>
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Third, M&A and strategic partnerships has brought the innovations of start-up companies into the strength of major companies.</div>
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Fourth, a mature ecosystem has developed in which companies are specializing in vertical industries, and incorporating location technologies from other vendors.</div>
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These trends will, we believe, drive a rise in full commercial deployments by the end of 2017, and integration with mass-market apps in 2018.</div>
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This newly-updated Grizzly Analytics <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2017_01_indoor.html">report on Indoor Location Technologies</a> gives technology details of how all of this is happening.</div>
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Over 100,000 people are now planning to attend the 2017 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, in February. Many will flock to the newest devices, many to the keynote speeches from market leaders, and many to the latest tech from a huge variety of exhibitors.</div>
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But how does anyone find all the tech they want to see? Anyone who has been to MWC in the past will tell you that there is no way to be sure you're seeing all that you want to see.</div>
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Anyone interested in indoor location technology now has a solution. The <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/mwc2017.html" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Grizzly Analytics Guide to Indoor Location Technology at MWC2017</a> will list all the companies at MWC that are demonstrating, presenting or talking about indoor location tech. (Obviously we may miss one, but since we've reported on indoor location tech from <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2017_01_indoor.html" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">over 200 companies</a>, we expect to be fairly comprehensive.) The guide will be organized by technology type and also by MWC hall number, so you can plan your time accordingly.</div>
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If you are exhibiting indoor location technology, in any stage or form, the guide is your chance to attract those visitors who are really interested in what you're showing. A basic listing in the guide is absolutely free.</div>
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So sign up now to receive, or be listed in, the Guide to Indoor Location Tech at MWC2017. And feel free to <a href="http://mailto:info@grizzlyanalytics.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">contact us</a> with any other questions you may have about indoor location technology.</div>
Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-79447551503713810282016-12-15T18:34:00.003-05:002016-12-15T19:29:13.164-05:00Announcing the Guide to Indoor Location Tech at MWC<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-79606509285459835902016-09-15T15:58:00.001-04:002016-09-15T16:00:10.944-04:00Videos released from the indoor location testbedGrizzly Analytics enjoyed running the indoor location testbed at the <a href="http://www.geoiotworld.com/testbed">GeoIoT World</a> Conference in May, 2016. After too long a delay, we're happy to release videos of the ten solutions evaluated at the testbed.<br />
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First up (in alphabetical order) is <a href="https://www.blooloc.com/">BlooLoc</a>. BlooLoc had 2 solutions in the testbed, one phone-based and one that positions their own tags. BlooLoc's phone-based solution, shown in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00MOy8cM2M4">this video</a>, combines BLE multilateration with signal propagation analysis.</div>
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Next up is <a href="http://www.gipstech.com/">GipsTech</a>, whose solution, shown in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i3wREwxGUY">this video</a>, was the only one that was fully infrastructure-free, not using any radio signals at all.<br />
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<br />Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-55656151761489514112016-05-30T15:42:00.000-04:002016-05-31T03:49:17.019-04:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4LejFjaI6eWjvj8mYnVH3OxIfsSRruPZmA8GXNfJgX16nyorP1QkBt7I1nyHiSDx8HcYaAhUYH-m7OJQEZWfUAO92jRfM728IXr-YqBthPdmAh9kxV4WsuQ2TowNfuX2bccqC9v71bOr/s1600/GeoIoT+World+icon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4LejFjaI6eWjvj8mYnVH3OxIfsSRruPZmA8GXNfJgX16nyorP1QkBt7I1nyHiSDx8HcYaAhUYH-m7OJQEZWfUAO92jRfM728IXr-YqBthPdmAh9kxV4WsuQ2TowNfuX2bccqC9v71bOr/s200/GeoIoT+World+icon.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last week Grizzly Analytics had the pleasure of organizing the GeoIoT World Indoor Location Testbed. The conference was amazing and it was great working with the testbed participants. All the solutions at the testbed did better than the commonly accepted industry standards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The GeoIoT World Indoor Location Testbed was the first event to evaluate and compare indoor location solutions in a real-world manner, measuring a wide variety of metrics. While others focus exclusively on accuracy, our testbed measured latency, time-to-stability, consistency, set-up time, numbers of beacons used (when relevant), and more. We are also segmenting our analysis along a number of dimensions, including the use of dedicated hardware, sensor fusion, Bluetooth vs. Wi-Fi, and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Testbed included ten solutions from eight companies, including two that tracked dedicated hardware, two that used Wi-fi signals of opportunity, and six that use BLE. Some integrate sensor fusion and some do not. The number of beacons deployed per company ranged between 12 and 30 for those who deployed beacons. Set-up time ranged from a few hours to several person-days. Collectively, these solutions represent the techniques used by the majority of mobile indoor location solutions on the market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The companies that participated in the testbed are: <a href="https://www.blooloc.com/" target="_blank">BlooLoc</a>, <a href="http://gipstech.com/" target="_blank">GipsTech</a>, <a href="https://www.here.com/" target="_blank">Here</a>, <a href="http://indoo.rs/">indoo.rs</a>, <a href="http://www.lambda4.com/EN/" target="_blank">Lambda 4</a>, <a href="http://www.movin.io/en/home/" target="_blank">Movin</a>, <a href="http://www.nextome.net/en/index.php" target="_blank">NexToMe</a> and <a href="https://senion.com/" target="_blank">Senion</a>. BlooLoc and Here had two solutions evaluated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over the upcoming weeks we will first release preliminary results, and then follow up with a full report available for purchase. We also plan to release videos of the solutions in action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-90983112502145277422016-04-02T15:46:00.001-04:002016-04-02T15:46:27.882-04:00The buyer nobody considered: How Apple can leverage Yahoo<div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">
The <img _fcksavedurl="https://staticseekingalpha.a.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/2016/3/28/603782-1459196883091337.jpg" align="right" alt="" height="200" hspace="6" src="https://staticseekingalpha.a.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/2016/3/28/603782-1459196883091337.jpg" style="max-width: 670px;" vspace="6" width="200" />past few weeks have brought the latest in several rounds of speculation regarding Yahoo! being <a _fcksavedurl="http://seekingalpha.com/news/3169764-yahoo-sale-process-middle-first-round-reports-cnbc" href="http://seekingalpha.com/news/3169764-yahoo-sale-process-middle-first-round-reports-cnbc" style="color: rgb(2, 73, 153) !important;" target="_blank">acquired</a>. Microsoft has been grabbing the biggest <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-yahoo-idUSKCN0WS067" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-yahoo-idUSKCN0WS067" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(2, 73, 153) !important;" target="_blank">headlines</a>, but speculation has discussed Verizon, Facebook and others.</div>
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I find it surprising that one of the most logical acquirers has not been mentioned. Namely Apple. Yahoo will compliment Apple's strengths, fill their gaps, and most importantly give them leverage for iDevice sales.</div>
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Apple, for all of their success in devices and media sales, does not have any strong position in mass market web services such as e-mail and search. Microsoft has Outlook (formerly Hotmail) and MSN.com. Facebook has mobile messaging (even for non Facebook users) and a controlling position in content consumption and advertising. Google has GMAIL and dominance in advertising. Apple, however, dominates media sales on iDevices through iTunes, but has very little for non-iDevice users. Are there any Apple services that are used by non-iDevice users?</div>
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Acquiring Yahoo would catapult Apple to a strong position in e-mail, search, news and other web services. While it will take work to turn around Yahoo's downward momentum, Apple has the cash to invest in it.</div>
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<strong>The critical factor, however, is that Apple can benefit from Yahoo's web services in ways that nobody else can. While others will look to Yahoo for direct profits, Apple can leverage Yahoo for device sales.</strong></div>
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To date the idea of Apple acquiring Yahoo is pure speculation. It is true that most <a _fcksavedurl="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(2, 73, 153) !important;" target="_blank">Apple acquisitions</a> have been fairly small technologies that fill gaps in Apple's technology roadmap. They have had numerous acquisitions in the hundreds of millions of dollars range, but few in the Billions, and none the size of Yahoo.</div>
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Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-67523906461718462172016-02-22T15:42:00.000-05:002016-02-22T15:42:15.610-05:00Newly updated report on Sub-Meter Accuracy Indoor Location Positioning TechnologiesOut of over 200 companies developing and delivering technology for indoor location positioning, the 28 companies profiled in the newly updated <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2016_02_submeter.html" target="_blank"><b>Grizzly Analytics report on Sub-Meter Accuracy Indoor Location Positioning Technologies</b></a> deliver indoor positioning to an accuracy of less than one meter. While this level of accuracy is not important for some applications, for many applications it is critical.<br />
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For solutions determining which store in a shopping mall a user is in, or which booth in a conference a user is near, positioning within several meters may be sufficient. But for solutions tracking whether a customer is standing in front of the pretzels or the chips in a supermarket, or which patient in a hospital ward a nurse is checking, or other similar applications, accuracy within less than a meter is necessary.<br />
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In the past year we have seen particular growth in four specific areas. The first is dedicated hardware systems that track the locations of smartphones using innovative methods. The second is lighting based systems, in which customized LED lights transmit signals that are received by smartphone cameras. The third is visual camera-based systems, which use computer vision technology to determine location or track motion. The fourth is the incorporation of high accuracy location positioning chips into electronic appliances, such as wearables, Internet of Things, Smart Home, and<br />
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<br />Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-10365242275636314912016-01-16T16:10:00.001-05:002016-01-17T10:45:12.187-05:00Intel's IoT demos at CES show the importance of location in IoT<h2 class="title sum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<i>See the <a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/3812986-intel-shows-value-of-location-positioning-in-internet-of-things-demonstrations" target="_blank">full article here at SeekingAlpha</a>.</i></div>
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Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-67454021524244824542016-01-05T13:52:00.003-05:002016-01-05T13:52:56.489-05:00Location Aware Consumer Electronics at CES 2016<span id="docs-internal-guid-221de29f-1310-6c6b-d394-5332daa5b156"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the most exciting new trends in consumer electronics is taking a page out of a mobile industry playbook: indoor location technologies.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-221de29f-1310-8b63-aef2-3f2352e32b56"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GPS has transformed mobile applications, with wide varieties of apps incorporating location into social networking, store finding, media sharing, news, and much more. Newer technologies, most famously Bluetooth beacons, have started to enable location apps to determine locations indoors.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-221de29f-1310-ba48-d24d-a4819c2f4968"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) includes several innovative consumer electronics devices that use indoor location positioning technology to deliver incredible functionality to their users. Many of them are doing so using innovative chip-based indoor location technologies, delivering better accuracy than is available on mobile. As the products you can see at CES reach market, the new trend of location-aware electronics can transform how people use electronic devices, as surely as GPS has transformed mobile apps.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-221de29f-1310-e52d-ccde-a046c03a7069"><a href="http://www.skye-intelligence.com/product.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skye Electronics</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a Chinese start-up company, has developed a drone that will follow you as you move around and video you from the air. Their product includes tracking device armbands that are worn by the user being videoed, and which are followed by the drone. Rather than using GPS, which would limit their product to outdoor use and would introduce tracking errors of several meters, Skye Electronics uses indoor location technology to track the armbands precisely, anywhere.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-221de29f-1311-10ef-e838-2823c810ed93"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paris-based </span><a href="http://remote.sevenhugs.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SevenHugs</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has developed a radically different kind of universal remote control. Everyone knows about universal remote controls, right? Lots of buttons that let you select which device you’re controlling? Wrong. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB7iuBKcfZw" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SevenHugs’ neweset product</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> lets you point the remote at whatever you want to control, and figures out by itself what you want to control, using indoor location technologies. The remote determines its own location, the location of the controllable things in the vicinity, and the orientation and direction in which it is being pointed, and can easily determine what to do based on how the remote is held. It even changes its display screen to fit the controls of the device being controlled. You can see the SevenHugs remote at CES in the Eureka Park at Sands Expo.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-221de29f-1311-8330-1994-56f572624fc4"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of these location-aware electronic products, and others, use indoor location positioning technology </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to incorporate location positioning into their products. <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2015_11_chip.html" target="_blank">This report</a> analyzes indoor location solutions available in chip form, for incorporation into electronic devices such as those above. DecaWave, mentioned above, is one of the leaders in bringing chip-based location technologies to market, but there are many others with very strong technology as well.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-221de29f-1311-aed2-1cf2-58c5f50a9c5c"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regardless of which of these products you want to own, the trend is clear: location aware electronics are reaching market. So keep your eyes out for location-aware electronic devices at CES, and keep on imagining how location-awareness can transform the other electronics in your life. </span></span>Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-7725823720327307212015-12-22T14:26:00.000-05:002015-12-22T18:24:41.747-05:00Indoor Location Positioning Testbed at the Geo IoT conference in May 2016<span id="docs-internal-guid-f4431c6e-cb25-8a17-5339-4f30113d856d"><br /></span>
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Bruce Krulwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16506129141459374630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161092575917091705.post-18285327548038673702015-11-17T15:49:00.000-05:002015-11-17T15:49:59.211-05:00Robot Camera Foreshadows an Era of Location-Aware ElectronicsA French company called <a href="http://www.movensee.com/" target="_blank">Move 'N See</a> produces a line of camera robots. Their devices act as a smart tripod, holding a video camera and automatically moving and zooming the camera as people of interest move around a site.<br />
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The idea is simple but amazingly innovative. Photo selfies are easy to take, but video selfies are next to impossible. How can I video myself playing football or doing gymnastics, without setting the camera so far back as to be useless? Do spectators want to spend an entire sporting event carefully videoing their friend or relative moving around the field?</div>
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Enter Move 'N See's "personal robot cameramen." Their devices aim, pan and zoom a video camera as one or more people move around an area. The people of interest wear armbands whose locations are tracked, enabling the camera controller to know where to aim the camera. The camera controller also includes enough smarts to adjust the camera smoothly and to capture multiple people evenly. The armbands also have buttons that give a certain level of control to the person being filmed.</div>
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Move 'N See's first product, called E-FULLMOTION, was designed for use outside. E-FULLMOTION's armbands include GPS receivers to track their location and send location updates wirelessly to the camera controller. But E-FULLMOTION only works outside, where GPS reception is available. How could such a product be developed to work indoors?</div>
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Pixio looks like a great product - incorporating indoor location technology to do something important for people. The technology is great, but the product is about video, not about technology. Pixio can be used to film not only sports but performing arts, conferences, children at play, and much more.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">EVEN MORE EXCITING</span> is the trend that is foreshadowed by Pixio. Grizzly Analytics believes that 2016 will be the year of <b><span style="color: red;">location-aware electronics</span>.</b> <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2015_02_indoor.html" target="_blank">Indoor location technologies</a> are available in chip form, with high accuracy and low power consumption, designed and packaged for easy integration into electronic products. These products can be cutting edge, such as home robots, drones, smart homes or Internet of Things devices, or they can be smarter versions of routine products like cameras.<br />
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A <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2015_11_chip.html" target="_blank">new report from Grizzly Analytics</a> analyzes chip-based indoor location technologies from 19 companies, including 10 that are delivering chips or components that incorporate indoor location into electronic products and devices.<br />
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Pixio is not the first location-aware electronic product on the market. For example, there are numerous products on the market that enable you to find your keys and wallets. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOd-Ief2P9I" target="_blank">Here's one</a> that we saw a while back.) But only now is location technology entering general-use products such as cameras.<br />
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As location chips become easier and easier to integrate into electronics, the sky's the limit for products that can work smarter and better using location awareness. Grizzly Analytics believes that 2016 will be the year in which location-aware electronic products make a huge splash in the market.<br />
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So if you are in the electronics business, you might want to take a look at <a href="http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2015_11_chip.html" target="_blank">chip-based location technologies</a> and consider how you can use them. If you're not in the electronics business, you still might want to keep your eye on location technologies and the changes they're bringing. They're not just for tech products anymore....</div>
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