A range of solutions are vying to replicate what GPS does outdoors in an indoor environment, from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to "terrestrial" GPS, plus many others. Which one is likely to be successful? IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc.) said the answer will not simply be just "one." Locating a...More>>

Urban Airship has announced a strategic partnership with Meridian for indoor location targeted mobile messaging. Meridian’s technology will enable Urban Airship customers with physical locations to reach people at the point of decision with indoor location targeting. Together, the companies’...More>>

Noting that the arena in which cellular emergency calling (E911) and location-based services (LBS) must be delivered has grown significantly more complex, Spirent Communications has expanded its LBS LTE test solution to support long-term evolution (LTE) positioning protocol (LPP) and observed time...More>>

In November, two companies unveiled indoor location positioning systems. CSR, Plc. demonstrated its indoor location and navigation system at the Locations & Beyond Summit in San Francisco in November. CSR’s SiRFusion location platform and SiRFstarV architecture are scheduled to become available...More>>

Navizon Inc., a provider of geolocation technology, has unveiled Navizon Indoor Triangulation System (I.T.S.), an indoor positioning system. Navizon is the creator of a previous application called Navizon-One, a global positioning system combining GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular signals.More>>

Cell-phone users are often more concerned about the speed of positioning than the accuracy, making time-to-first-fix the most important factor in a GNSS mass-market receiver’s perceived performance. However, TTFF is generally difficult to characterize and optimize because of the need to encompass...More>>

"A large number of companies and engineers have thrown billions of dollars at trying to improve GPS in urban and indoor applications,” states Locata Corporation co-founder Nunzio Gambale. “From a technological perspective, Locata has created something completely new: the capability to...More>>

Alcatel-Lucent has partnered with Polaris Wireless and Thales Alenia Space to offer a mobile device geographic positioning service. This type of service needs to be highly accurate to provide the best results for phone operators carrying out applications such as E911 as well mobile marketing....More>>

An indoor messaging system (IMES) has been developed to meet the challenges of indoor and deep indoor positioning, as a system that can be implemented in any device that has a GPS/GNSS receiver without hardware modification. IMES can provide reliable 3D position data with a single transmitter...More>>

Navteq has announced the launch of Navteq Destination Maps. Destination Maps feature a unique set of interior map attributes (for instance, escalators) with detailed place data to enable users to more efficiently navigate and explore interior spaces. With Navteq Destination Maps, location-based...More>>