Show HN: Indoor Location you can try yourself
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Show HN: Indoor Location you can try yourself
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#2I'd love to know a little more about what's going on here. Does it use accelerometers or just wifi signals? One key question: could I share these floorplans? That is to say, using the sensors on HTC Android device #1, could I sent a floorplan to my friend Samsung device #2 and have them be able to similarly track their location?
Does it only work indoors, or is that just for demonstration?
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#3We built this because we felt Indoor Location technology is too inaccessible. There's lots of buzz about indoor location, and many canned demos, but very few people seem to put it out there.
We've built some cool tech, and we want people to try it out first hand.
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#4If you don’t have time to try the app, watch this video instead. It’s 90 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GdXp_Swjs
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#5I'd love to know a little more about what's going on here. Does it use accelerometers or just wifi signals? One key question: could I share these floorplans? That is to say, using the sensors on HTC Android device #1, could I sent a floorplan to my friend Samsung device #2 and have them be able to similarly track their location? Does it only work indoors, or is that just for demonstration?
The floorplans are definitely transferable! Once you’ve mapped a location once, it works automatically on all devices.
In fact, if you walk into a location that someone else has already mapped, the “Where Am I” will automatically load that map up on your device and start showing your position.
If you’d like to do more advanced stuff with your floorplans, make a WiFiSLAM SDK account here (access.wifislam.com) and we can get you started.
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#6 Error reading floorplan
There was an error reading your floorplan from storage
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#7If you don’t have time to try the app, watch this video instead. It’s 90 seconds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GdXp_Swjs
Oh also, if you're up for learning more about the technology/platform in general, take a look at blog.wifislam.com
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#8I'd love to know a little more about what's going on here. Does it use accelerometers or just wifi signals? One key question: could I share these floorplans? That is to say, using the sensors on HTC Android device #1, could I sent a floorplan to my friend Samsung device #2 and have them be able to similarly track their location? Does it only work indoors, or is that just for demonstration?
@untog: It's actually a sensor fusion approach that combines both accelerometers and Wi-Fi signals.
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#9I'd love to know a little more about what's going on here. Does it use accelerometers or just wifi signals? One key question: could I share these floorplans? That is to say, using the sensors on HTC Android device #1, could I sent a floorplan to my friend Samsung device #2 and have them be able to similarly track their location? Does it only work indoors, or is that just for demonstration?
It will work wherever there are ambient WiFi signals, indoors or outdoors. This is particularly interesting indoors because it’s possible to get GPS outdoors, while you can’t indoors. We have tried mapping around Mountain View and it’s worked great
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#10Constructive criticism: After reading the description, I don't understand what this application does. I am not initmately familiar with indoor mapping/positioning or WiFiSLAM. The term "indoor mapping showcase" is vague to me.
I think it lets me build maps of indoor locations? Somehow? Based on the screenshots, maybe by walking around my room? It seems like it could be neat, but I don't want to go through the trouble of downloading an app if I don't know what it does.