Positioning with awiloc
Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 16:01
in Mathematics & Economics
Awiloc WLAN localisation technology is software for navigation devices and mobile telephones. It makes use of the existing broad-coverage WLAN transmitters in cities and buildings. Awiloc software on mobile terminal devices measure the received signal strength distribution of these WLAN transmitters and determines its own position on the basis of these values self-sufficiently (i.e. without data communications). Even if the radio networks are secured, positioning still works, because the devices do not have to connect. To determine position, the software uses an electronic map that contains the reference data using the received signal strength data of the anonymous WLAN transmitters...