WI-FI LOCATION & TRACKING
Skyhook Not Violating Your Privacy, Stealing Sheep, Eating Your Young A bit of backlash
emerged from Skyhook Wireless’s partnership with AOL: Skyhook has been driving the streets of major cities for years
gathering pinpointed. Wi-Fi uses a public band. There is no expectation of privacy.
Omnitrol Networks Extends its Platform with Ekahau’s Wi-Fi-based tracking system Omnitrol Networks has integrated the Ekahau Positioning
Engine in the OMNITROL, the first open application network appliance. The complete out-of-box PLC.
SiRF Deliver GPS-WiFi Hybrid Positioning SiRF, a leading provider of GPS-enabled silicon and premium
software location platforms, and Skyhook Wireless, Inc., provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System™ (WPS), today announced
that SiRF has licensed the WPS.
New Wi-Fi Location Tracking Products Its built-in 802.11b radio, based on silicon from G2 Microsystems,
lets Ekahau's software pinpoint the badge-wearers location, or lets the badge-wearer.
Zapata Engineering Partners with PanGo Networks to Provide Asset Tracking Zapata Engineering is pleased to announce its partnership
with PanGo Networks, an asset tracking solutions.
GDS and PanGo helped us identify the ROI opportunity in the form of quicker equipment turnaround. Blogroll. And was promoted to billing chief in the process. Nokia and Siemens
demonstrate how to bring networks to life at GSM.
Vendors add to wireless location-tracking products And wireless LAN vendor Trapeze Networks has rolled out a location appliance based on the hardware and software from Newbury
Networks.
RFID RTLS
InnerWireless and PanGo Plan to Merge The merger combines PanGo's best-in-class location
services platform and asset tracking applications software with the industry-leading RF management.
Asset Tracking: West Jefferson Medical Center Selects PanGo The Enterprise Asset Tracking Solutions Company recently
introduced West Jefferson Medical Center as the newest addition to its rapidly growing.
Imation introduces RFID tracked storage Additional options are available such as automatic input
from enterprise backup solutions and automatic logging of reports from legacy environments.
GPS
GPS system used to keep track of sex offenders You might call it an On-Star for sex offenders.
Thanks to global positioning satellites, authorities are able to track their every move.
TI Single-Chip Solution Drives GPS into Mainstream Mobile Phones Data that consumers will access on their handsets with
GPS technology, such as localized maps, increases the need for rich 3D graphics to better identify.
T-Mobile’s MDA Compact III joins an elite band of phones with built-in GPS that turns
your handset into a fully-fledged sat nav system.
u-blox to Showcase Ultra Fast Galileo-Ready A-GPS Chip The new technology boasts an acquisition and tracking sensitivity
of -160 dBm that enables indoor coverage, a 50-channel engine and a power consumption.
Chip firms battle for smallest GPS die and better than -160 dBm signal tracking capability to
provide location data under the harshest outdoor conditions, and even in many indoor locations.
LBS
Rand McNally and TCS Launch Next-Generation Navigation Application Rand McNally and TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. announced
the companies have extended their strategic partnership to include Rand McNally Navigator.
Location is Revolutionizing the 3rd Screen: But Where are the …major US wireless carriers including
Sprint and Cingular [AT&T] proved that their network infrastructures are fully.
VCs Back Location-based Services Gearworks, Airclic pull in funding ...
EVENTS
Industry
- Geospatial Integration for Public Safety Conference, New Orleans, April 15-17, 2007
- Location Intelligence Conference: Indoor LBS Session, San Francsico, April 16-18, 2007
Academic
- The First International Workshop on Research Challenges
in Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11-13, 2007.
- RFID Workshop 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 24-25 2007
