A website giving you details about entertainment near you? an application on your smartphone/iPhone helping you find the nearest point of interest? A social networking site helping you reach out to other professional globally? Or maybe a social networking site helping you meet someone personal?

Location Based Technology is something that is bound to explode, and personally is on a much smaller scale at the moment. With the internet as our lifeline, the need to meet people/know things, and the invention of smartphones like blackberries and iphones you can and should expect something that is an integration of all.

Question is – what is taking so long? Why isnt there a single application that is smart enough to help you find the nearest point of interest, whilst it alerts you and 10 other users around you who match your desired partner profile about you and your common point of interest and yet smart enough to switch to a personal/professional mode to help manage a profile depending on your social atmosphere so people around you know you and can address you depending on your profile? – Well I am sure I am not the only one who concieved this idea and probably there are companies out there working on something like this already.

For now, the question is what does Location Based Technology mean to you and how can you benefit from it?

Very interesting overview. You didn’t mention sensor based location technologies. I know two of them:
- IMU dead reckoning based on triaxial acceleration and gyro sensors, used widely in military and commecial applications. While the cost high performance of sensors used to be high, the price and size shrinking rapidly, enabling perhaps cell phone integration. The position accuracy degrades with time.
- Pedometric dead reckoning based on triaxial acceleration, gyro and magnetic sensors, plus a pressure sensor for pedestrians location. The accuracy seem to be about 1% of traveled distance.

Both technologies pick up position tracking when RF based location signal is unreliable.

Question for you. If sead reckoning chip with both algorithms would be available, would it add any benefits to system which your company or Skyhook offers? If yes, what it would be?

Thanks