A more sensitive technique for determining user position could lead to improved location-based mobile services
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - 08:04
in Astronomy & Space
Many mobile-phone applications (apps) use spatial positioning technology to present their user with location-specific information such as directions to nearby amenities. By simultaneously predicting the location of the mobile-user and the data access points, or hotspots, improved accuracy of positioning is now available, thanks to an international research team including Sinno Jialin Pan from the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research. Software developers expect that such improvements will enable a whole new class of apps that can react to small changes in position.