By Rachel Metz, Technology Review
Indoor location is the next big navigation problem, in part because GPS doesn’t work in buildings. Now that it’s easy to find your way in the real world with just a smartphone in hand, the next logical navigation frontier is indoors, where GPS doesn’t work and maps are often nonexistent. Australian startup Navisens says it has a plan to track everyone from firefighters searching through burning buildings to consumers wandering through shopping malls, without requiring any special wireless signals. Ashod Donikian, Navisens’s founder and CEO (and, for now, its sole employee), says the company’s technology will power a wearable gadget that can track first responders in emergencies; he hopes to start testing it shortly with firefighters in the United States. He also plans to offer his technology later this year to developers who want to add indoor positioning capabilities to smartphone apps or enhance existing navigation capabilities.
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