Nokia, Sony and Samsung Team Up to Improve Indoor Navigation

An alliance of 22 companies has teamed up to improve indoor positioning and market adoption of related services.

In-Location Alliance, which includes giants such as Nokia, Samsung and Sony, wants to create solutions offering "high accuracy, low power consumption, mobility, implementability and usability."

In practice, since GPS doesn't work well indoors, this means the alliance members will create pilots for services based primarily on Bluetooth 4.0 as well as Wi-Fi.

"The aim of the In-Location Alliance is to act as a pioneer opening up new business streams for indoor environments. Indoor positioning is the next frontier of mobile services, offering great opportunities to enhance…
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