Overview
Based in Woodinville, WA, privately held Loctronix was founded in 2006. We like to say that “Loctronix is locked on location”. Thanks to our exclusive unified positioning technology, we can locate anything, everywhere.
Our founders are the leading experts in low-cost, high-performance GPS positioning. And our technology is based on codeless GPS methods originally invented by Loctronix’ Chief Scientist, Peter F. MacDoran. During the last 20 years codeless GPS has been used for precision land-surveying, expendable radiosonde sensors, precision attitude determination and other applications requiring exact location.
With the rapid advances in software defined radio technology, the Loctronix team realized that codeless positioning technology could be implemented in software, creating a third generation of codeless. This enabled for the first time the use of very-low-cost, common-off-the-shelf components to create a location sensor that, for the most part, was software. This meant that the sensor could be implemented and integrated as an add-on component in cell phones or other systems with little or no additional manufacturing cost.
Our proprietary, patent-pending Spectral Compression Positioning™ (SCP) technology is a major evolutionary step forward. SCP uses GPS/GNSS, regional cellular signals, and low-cost, locally deployed reference beacons in a multi-tiered reference network that supports any number of location sensors. These reference signals provide ranging information critical to determining position location accurate to within one meter, yet with minimal cost.
Our technological breakthrough in unified location sensing matches the best performance of existing GPS-based solutions, yet goes where GPS cannot penetrate – indoors, underground, under canopy. The result is affordable precise universal positioning capability, indoor as well as outdoor, anywhere in the world.
SCP is the only economically feasible technology to enable positioning in almost any environment. Offering core technology, development tools, reference designs and support services, Loctronix gives customers the foundation to create their own positioning and location solutions in applications ranging from remote asset tracking to the delivery of location-based services to people on the go.
