Nokia Locate Sensor: The power of Indoor Positioning Technology

Filed in archive Companies on January 23, 2009

Things like these can be found aplenty in the market (though not having backing of extensive technology) but since it has the name of Nokia attached to it I thought it would be worthwhile for my readers to know about it. Dubbed as Nokia Locate Sensor, it will enable you to track things of daily use provided tags are attached to it and you are within distance of 100m with the aid of special application installed on your cell phone. The good thing is that it works vice versa too. Indoor Positioning technology utilizes the existing wireless networks and radios in cell phone therefore you don't need expensive infrastructure to triangulate your position and indicate it on a map which can be easily viewed on your cell phone. Privacy has been taken care of so only authorized users will be able to view the positioning allowing privacy advocates to take a sigh of relief.

As of now it's in the prototype stage and developers are promising pin point accuracy which sounds great. As of now trials are in progress in around forty buildings so it seems we may soon have the technology in our hands. People who find it difficult to trace small things such as car keys, wallet or even their children (hard to digest but true) would certainly like to take a look at it when it's launched.

Check out this video to get a better understanding.



http://noknok.tv/2009/01/20/nokia-locate-sensor-trials-continue/