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Indoor Positioning Technologies

Commenters speculate on methods for precise indoor location tracking, debating technologies like Bluetooth beacons, WiFi fingerprints, access point triangulation, and machine learning over GPS.

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Sample Comments

lhaussknecht • Apr 18, 2016 • View on HN

No, you don't need beacons here. It works using "fingerprints" (and machine learning) of nearby APs.

winter_blue • Nov 7, 2019 • View on HN

Probably to use Bluetooth beacons.

geon • Nov 14, 2015 • View on HN

Why not just use bluetooth beacons for that?

alephxyz • Jun 1, 2022 • View on HN

It's because it's easy to estimate someone's location from nearby Bluetooth beacons or wifi access points.

greatgoat420 • May 15, 2021 • View on HN

Could this be used to find beacons in shopping centers that track Bluetooth devices?

mrfusion • Feb 26, 2014 • View on HN

Could a device like this use bluetooth instead of wifi / mac address?Or for that matter could it somehow look at cell signals?

ganzuul • Feb 13, 2019 • View on HN

Anything on the roadmap for indoor positioning?

tudorizer • Sep 30, 2014 • View on HN

how does the detection work? Can't be GPS. Wifi? Bluetooth?

twodayslate • May 11, 2014 • View on HN

I thought that used wifi/Bluetooth rather than iBeacons.

stonecrops • Apr 20, 2014 • View on HN

Get close to this with BLE beacons at travel points of entry?