The In-Location Alliance, a consortium aimed at increasing the adoption of indoor positioning and location-based services, announced this week winners of its “Best Use Case Contest.”

Each of the winners (indoo.rs, InfSoft and Sailstech) demonstrated the “growing market potential from indoor positioning” as mentioned in the release.

Judged by a peer review panel, the successful, real-world deployments comply with the In-Location Alliance System Architecture. Here are the specifics:

• indoo.rs – Airport; a collaboration with San Francisco International Airport for helping the blind and visually impaired to find their way around the Airport at Terminal 2. indoo.rs’ patented technology uses a combination of Bluetooth beacons, Wi-Fi access points and a mobile app to help guide the passengers.
• InfSoft – Campus Düsseldorf; a collaboration with Vodafone that gives staff and visitors at the new German center a wealth of information and services around the building complex. The application supports finding the way to a meeting point, colleague finding, meeting room booking and finding the users current position.
• Sailstech – iMap; an indoor mobile navigation app for the largest station in Taiwan — Taipei Railway Station, also known as the Taiwan’s largest maze. Using the existing Wi-Fi signal in the building the application supports locating and navigation functionality for passengers. This case is also the first largest application imported by Sailstech SDK.




The In-Location Alliance judging panel included representatives from LocuSense, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Mobile and Telecom Italia. Formally established in August 2012, the iLA is an industry collaboration that also includes Nokia, Cisco, Broadcom and CSR among its charter member.

Late last year, the group released a white paper focusing on solutions using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to provide a complete architectural description of an indoor positioning solution. The architecture is intended to support the evolving market requirements and the lessons learned from actual deployments.

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Tags: Qualcomm, Wi-Fi, In-Location Alliance, San Francisco International Airport