San Diego, CA, June 28, 2016 – TomTom (TOM2) today announced a technology collaboration with a leading provider of indoor positioning technology, sensewhere Limited. This collaboration will enable the two companies to conquer GPS black spots and bring location…
NextNav’s Metropolitan Beacon System Brings GNSS-like Positioning to Indoor and Urban Environments
Sunnyvale, Calif., Jan. 19, 2016—Today, NextNav announced that the final specification for 3GPP Release 13 will include messaging support for Terrestrial…
View Technologies Introduces inView RFID Software Platform for Real-Time Item Location DataÂ
MARIETTA, Ga., Sept. 2, 2015—View Technologies, a joint venture between Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (NYSE: SWK) and RF Controls, announced the…
Geospatial Corporation Announces National Rollout of GeoUnderground
PITTSBURGH, May 21, 2015—Geospatial Corporation announced plans to formally launch GeoUnderground our secure, mobile, enterprise strength GIS software platform sold in an affordable SaaS format. Unlike most current GIS software, GeoUnderground eliminates…
OGC and ILA to Collaborate on Indoor Positioning
March 11, 2015—Two global organizations, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the InLocation Alliance (ILA), have begun working together to advance indoor positioning capabilities. While outdoor navigation is common place, much work is still needed to…
OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework White Paper Available
Feb. 25, 2015—The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper. This essential document for Smart City systems planning is available free at https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=61188.…
3-D Indoor Maps Goal of Furukawa’s Research with CAREER Award
Do you ever wish you had a better way to find your way around a large building than a printed, one-dimensional map? ​​That may happen soon, thanks to the work of Yasutaka Furukawa, PhD, assistant professor of computer science & engineering in the School…
Mapping Out Interiors
Sure, that’s your office cubicle. Your corner store. Maybe even the layout of your furniture in your living room. But that doesn’t mean that soon we won’t all be peering at it, too. That is because two trends, location technology and crowdsourcing, may…
OGC, Layar, Metaio and Wikitude Invite Mobile World Congress Attendees to AR Interoperability Demo
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites all mobile developers, location data providers, network operators and LBS service users to an exciting seminar and reception that will be held from 0900 to 1500 on 25 February 2014 in Barcelona, Spain at the Institut…
DOT Plans to Mandate ‘Talking’ Cars
The Obama administration said Monday that it plans to require new cars to be able to communicate with each other, a move that transportation planners called a giant step toward ultimately preventing tens of thousands of crashes every year. The communication…
