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Virtual Geo-Zones of +/- 10 cm Tolerance = the End of Beacons is Nigh !?

October 5, 2016

Coming to a smart phone near you. Or car, robot or drone 

Beacons and tags are the default method for indoor proximity-based systems. They’re accurate and they work well for relatively small areas – inside buildings, where the phone’s GPS or even some Wi-Fi geo-positioning may be problematic.

All that is about to change – the smart device, your phone, tablet, watch or robot, is being recruited to geo-position within accuracies heretofore available only to beacons and tags. The geo-positioning of phones is going to improve by two (2) orders of magnitude. At that point, many beacon fields become obsolete. Boo hoo 

What this means to Zonal is that we will be able to create 2d and 3d zones to within +/- 10 cm – the accuracy available to the next generation of smart devices

No tags necessary.  Just a new model phone and a geo-zone created on a PC anywhere by anyone for any purpose

Available soon with DecaWave’s chip set

Available someday soon via WIFISLAM in iPhones

Available maybe in Google Tango  in a Lenovo phone.

Zones of that tolerance will make most tag and beacon proximity systems technologically obsolete – except for non-interactive, “dumb” tracking applications of dumb phones (and dumb people . . .?)

Watch this space . . . . this is the tolerance we are going to get micro-zones to on a mobile device (not to scale but you get the idea)

indoor geo-zones geo-enclosures

 

 

 

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