Thursday, August 13th, 2015
Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the maker of WeChat, has pinned down a strategic investment with indoor mapping startup sensewhere. The total amount of the deal was undisclosed, but the companies said that Tencent now has a license...
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
IndoorAtlas, the global leader in magnetic positioning technology for indoor location, today announced that it has agreed to a $10 million investment from Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), the world's leading Chinese search engine. IndoorAtlas also announced...
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Rx Networks Inc., a leading mobile location technology and services company, today announced GLONASS support for XYBRID Cloud, scheduled for release on May 30, 2014. With GLONASS support, XYBRID Cloud extends its indoor positioning capability and improves...
Thursday, November 14th, 2013
Prima Research LLC announced today that it has been granted two patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for technology related to the burgeoning location services (LS) business sector. The patents are for an...
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Imagine if the mapping of the interior of buildings would have benefitted from the explosive growth of mapping that has come from ubiquitous GPS receivers. Decades of GPS position and tracking data have greatly improved the...
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
TIMMS is a manually operated push-cart designed to accurately model interior spaces without accessing GPS. It consists of three core elements: LiDAR and camera systems engineered to work indoors in mobile mode, computers and electronics for completing...
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Precision indoor location is stealing the headlines, yet wide-area alternative/hybrid location is where the money is today. GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular location technologies will each be installed on over one billion devices in 2017, with direct...