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Out of over 200 companies developing and delivering technology for indoor location positioning, the 28 companies profiled in the newly updated Grizzly Analytics report on Sub-Meter Accuracy Indoor Location Positioning Technologies 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. 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. 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 m...

Summary Intel has focused very strongly recently on the Internet of Things and wearable markets. In their showcase at the recent Consumer Electronics Show, they showcased several applications of IoT that involved location tracking. Their incorporation of chip-based location tracking technology shows the significance of location tracking in the nascent Internet of Things and wearable markets. It was just  announced  that Intel's air-band demo used wireless location tracking chips from Dublin-based  DecaWave . DecaWave sells chips and embeddable components based on Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio that can track chip locations to within 10cm. More important than accuracy is the speed of update - the DecaWave chips update location calculations between 125 times per second and 2000 times per second, depending on the configuration.... See the full article here at SeekingAlpha .

One of the most exciting new trends in consumer electronics is taking a page out of a mobile industry playbook: indoor location technologies. 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. What does this have to do with consumer electronics? 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 transfo...

Grizzly Analytics is excited to announce that we will be conducting the indoor positioning testbed at the Geo IoT Conference , in May, 2016, in Brussels.  Participating vendors & researchers can demonstrate their technology solutions and have them measured along a wide variety of metrics, including accuracy, latency (update speed), resilience, infrastructure requirements, setup time, power requirements, etc. Analysis and comparisons will be segmented, including between mobile systems and hardware/chip solutions. Want to participate in the indoor positioning testbed? Want to speak at the conference, sponsor it, exhibit or participate in other ways? See details and submit your name on the conference site , or contact us to sign up or ask questions.

A French company called Move 'N See 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. 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? 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. T...

Grizzly Analytics just released its latest report, on Chip-Based Indoor Location Positioning Technologies . This niche-area report analyzes tech from 19 companies. Why is chip-based indoor location technology interesting? Aren't the algorithms the same as those implemented in software? First, chip-based location tracking can be incorporated into electronic devices, such as Internet of Things devices, Wearables, Smart Home devices, robots, drones, toys, and more. These devices don't have mobile operating systems to run apps, but they can do incredibly cool things if they can track locations accurately. New chips profiled in this report are delivering location positioning in a way that can be implemented effectively in devices - accurate, low power, small chips, easy integration, and more. Second, some of the chips profiled are next generations of chips already in the market, either GPS chips, Wi-Fi chips or sensor analysis chips. If previous generations of these chips are ...

Indoor location technology start-up  Loctronix has just announced that it is being acquired by TeleCommunication Systems (TCS).   Seattle-based Loctronix has developed a wide range of highly technical methods for location positioning. Their algorithms improve both motion sensing and radio-based location measurement. The company had previously been working to have its technology implemented in chips or device hardware, because of the level at which their algorithms operate, but this appears to be pivoting in light of their acquisition by TCS. A partial list of their innovative technologies include: DAIN: Doppler Aided Inertial Navigation, including sensor fusion motion sensing and step estimator SCP: Spectral Compression Positioning RSS: Radio Signal Strength Profiler MEP: Mobile Explorer Platform TCS is quietly a true leader in mobile location systems, with systems deployed on both feature phones and smartphones worldwide, primarily in conjunction with carrie...