Nokia hard at work commercializing indoor positioning systems

by Chris Ziegler posted Oct 1st 2008 at 10:51PM

How'd you like to be able to make a bee line straight for the ketchup in the Mega Mart without having to walk down thirteen aisles first in a frustrating process of trial and error? Yeah, Nokia feels you, which is why it's working on developing an indoor positioning system that's robust enough to use -- and easy enough to set up -- to be commercialized. The company apparently already has some 40 buildings worldwide set up with trial systems, and it's working on a commercial trial with a Helsinki mall that'll go live later this year with the goal of figuring out how such a system could generate cold, hard cash. We wouldn't expect this to go big any time soon, but for what it's worth, there's talk of dropping a build of the client on Nokia's own Beta Labs at some point in the future.

Filed under: Software, Nokia

Tags: beta labs, BetaLabs, indoor, indoor positioning, indoor positioning system, IndoorPositioning, IndoorPositioningSystem, nokia

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El Cartel @ Oct 3rd 2008 11:29AM

Hey Chris Quick Question
Is it possible that engadget put the Nokia 5800 as a headline
on engadget mobile. That such an awesome device. Plus it took me a while to find it.
Thank You