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| Subject: | Re: MobileLBSList: Looking for feedback..... |
| Date: |
08/15/2000 05:28:12 PM |
| From: |
Jim Sabol |
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Bryan Morgan wrote about the complexities of position, I would like to offered up a few more complexities based on future real world applications. There are many ways to determine location, by GPS, by triangulation, signal strength, by access point, etc... Some methods are better than others depending on the use or application.
If am driving on a suburban road and I want to know where my nearest McDonalds is - that could easily be solved by any of the above methods. Applications that operate successfully at plus or minus of 500 feet are a lot different from the applications that require accurate information to plus or minus 5 feet. What if I am inside a large 60 story office building and I want to know where someones offices is. Imagine what accurate positioning information could do for grocery stores and all of retail in general. The problem seems to really manifest itself exponentially as we try to increase the resolution of ones location.
I cannot offer up any single solution, my company is working with a number of technologies to meet our customers needs. But at fine resolutions we are seeing the access point topology look more viable - and a lot will depend on PAN technologies such as Bluetooth. Is anyone else out there on the mailing list interested in high resolution location? If so, please drop me a line, I would love to chat with you.
Best Regards
Jim
Jim Sabol
Proxicast, Inc.
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