Crowdsourcing Indoor Positioning, Connected Vehicle News
May 27, 2015
One of the marvels of the decade is crowdsourcing. This month I look at crowdsourcing for indoor-location positioning […]
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One of the marvels of the decade is crowdsourcing. This month I look at crowdsourcing for indoor-location positioning […]
This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was the biggest ever, with 95,000 attendees and thousands of booths, conferences and people with sore feet walking a cavernous exhibition hall. While the Geneva Auto Show ran close to the same dates, connected vehicle companies and technology were prominently featured. What was interesting, however, was the rise of indoor positioning companies and mobile advertising agencies with interest in location.
Sen. Ed Markey’s new car technology report, released earlier this month, basically says that connected vehicles can be hacked, causing danger to drivers and presenting major privacy concerns. While some critics believe Markey’s report was meant to drive media hysteria, others say it raises serious issues that the industry needs to address. In other location news, I’ll be covering the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona for GPS World. What will be the showcased location technology? Wearables? Connected vehicles? Or something new?
The American Red Cross Geographic Information System team is enlisting volunteers to help map areas in Africa hard hit by the […]
DigitalGlobe, Inc., has launched a crowdsourcing campaign that will allow anyone to help look for the missing […]
Telenav, Inc., announced today that it has acquired skobbler GmbH, the European-based navigation company with the highest rated […]
SkyTraq Technology, Inc., a fabless GNSS positioning technology company, is undertaking a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to explore […]
2013 was an up-and-down roller coaster of a year for the location industry…and 2014 appears to be more of the same. What was the big story? Google buying Waze? While it is easy to predict what will happen, the harder thing to do is to predict when it will happen. With that in mind, LBS Insider reached out to industry veterans to discuss the big buzz in 2013 in the industry — and what the future holds, next year and beyond.
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