Jul
9
WiFi will compete with GPS
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The company Wi2Geo officially announced the launch of new service Wi2Geo. Wi2Geo stands for Wireless to Geography - wireless technologies in geography. This is a kind of alternative system GPS, which allows you to learn their location using a network WiFi. The principle of the system is as follows: a mobile device that supports work in the network WiFi, is in the area of the network of WiFi, with the help of special client software, data on the power signal from a few access points, transferred to the server Wi2Geo, which calculates the location devices and transmits this information back. Of course, detection accuracy will depend on the area of how many points will be located device.
The main difference from GPS is the best detection accuracy in a city or premises occupied by a large “dark” satellites. Another feature of this service to developers call it interactivity. For example, data on their whereabouts can be continuously broadcast on its home page, placing it at stake. There, just the possibility of transmission of information on such services as “Live Journal”, “In contact” and others.
In preparation and beta-testing service Wi2Geo, developers gathered information on more than 35 thousand points of access to the network in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk, and is now actively working to increase the base. To become a user of the service Wi2Geo should register at the project site and install it on their mobile device (laptop, PDA, cell phone) special client program.
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