ContactSCP Technology Opens the Door to Indoor Positioning
These days we all are accustomed to GPS location and navigation. Seemingly every car is equipped with a navigation unit. Hundreds of millions of portable personal navigation devices have been sold. And today’s cell phones and smart phones come equipped with built-in GPS positioning capability. Those who remember the pre-GPS days may recall the LORAN radio navigation system, and perhaps SatNav as well.
The reality is that a radio signal does not have to be dedicated to navigation to be a source for navigation information. Cellular towers, high-definition television, FM and AM radio, Wi-Fi, and other frequency based networks all transmit radio wave signals and all present an opportunity for calculating location and providing navigation information, based on amplitude, frequency, and phase data.
How do you tap the potential of these multiple and varying radio signals? Is it possible to use those signals without decoding or in some cases without knowing where the signal is coming from? That’s what makes SCP so special. SCP does not need to decode the signal in order to use it for positioning, which means it can be done without expensive, dedicated microchips. As long as a radio signal can be detected by the device, SCP can use it without regard to its type. When SCP is combined with inertial sensors you further eliminate the need to know the origin of signals being used (no network mapping, fingerprinting, or location servers). Can any other indoor positioning technology do that? Loctronix has unlocked the mystery of using unlimited radio sources to tell us where in the world we are, indoors or out.
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