Indoor positioning technology for smartphones is developing rapidly, driven by the demand for indoor mapping, indoor tracking, indoor navigation and real-time location analytics.
Crowd Connected publishes regular updates to its 'Indoor Positioning Technology' review, looking at the latest developments. The Tech Update covers current technologies and their strengths and weaknesses for different use cases. It also covers future technologies that are expected to reach general availability in the next 5 years.
Technologies covered in the review include:
- Bluetooth beacons
- RF Fingerprinting
- WiFi
- WiFi 802.11mc (WiFi RTT)
- WiFi 802.11az
- Ultrawideband (UWB)
- Ultrasound
- Bluetooth WiRa ranging
- Bluetooth 5.1 Angle of Arrival / Departure (AoA / AoD)
- Inertial sensors
The report summarises the 2021 landscape as follows:
"There are lots of exciting technologies on the horizon. But for 2021 we recommend sticking with a Bluetooth beacon infrastructure, combined with inertial data. This technology provides mobile apps with a location accuracy of 2 to 5m. It’s quick and cheap to install and configure."
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