Indoor Positioning for Big Venues: What Works Best?
It’s been said that Indoor Positioning is going to revolutionize industry. There is no denying the massive impact GPS has had on society and business; therefore, it is difficult to ignore the potential of a positioning technology that capitalizes on where human beings spend more than 70% of their time – indoors! The ability to […]
Indoor Positioning for Big Venues: What Works Best?
Tight Coupling Between Radar and INS/GNSS with AUTO Software for Accurate and Reliable Positioning for Autonomous Vehicles
A realized autonomous vehicle requires a ubiquitous, accurate, precise, and reliable localization system. Nowadays, the market is full of sensors that can be used for Positioning and Navigation; each with its strengths and weaknesses. Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) are usually used to build Inertial Navigation Systems (INS). INS can be accurate within short durations; however, […]
Reliable Localization on Micro Mobility Platforms for Public Safety and By-law Compliance
Micro mobility is a fast-evolving market attempting to solve the “last mile” transportation problem. Major cities around the world are seeing a proliferation of dockless, light-weight, and two-wheeled vehicles to mitigate traffic congestion on local roads while also providing a convenient “last mile” solution. E-scooters and e-bikes are the most common platforms deployed by ride-share […]
Tight Coupling Between Radar and INS/GNSS with AUTO Software for Accurate and Reliable Positioning for Autonomous Vehicles
A realized autonomous vehicle requires a ubiquitous, accurate, precise, and reliable localization system. Nowadays, the market is full of sensors that can be used for Positioning and Navigation; each with its strengths and weaknesses. Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) are usually used to build Inertial Navigation Systems (INS). INS can be accurate within short durations; however, […]
Coursa Drive: Integrated Navigation Solution for Autonomous Vehicles
Accurate, reliable, and continuous positioning is essential for Autonomous vehicle navigation applications. Precise positioning algorithms based on Real-Time Kinematics (RTK) using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) are widely used for this purpose and can provide a centimeter level accuracy in open sky environments. Positioning availability and accuracy are subject to degradation due to the different […]
Coursa Venue: Indoor Navigation Platform Using Fusion of Inertial Sensors with Magnetic and Radio Fingerprinting
Navigation is one of the most essential human needs. People need to know their location anywhere and everywhere, indoors and outdoors, for example for tracking children and older people who are in extreme need of care or for providing a precise indoor location of calls to 911. The latter is especially important since more than […]
Positioning and Analytics from Consumer Mobile Devices in Retail Stores
Online retailers have a crucial competitive advantage over brick and mortar retailers since they can easily track the activity of their shoppers. In brick and mortar retail stores, this technically translates to the problem of indoor positioning. This paper presents a solution for indoor positioning in retail stores using smartphone sensors with minimum infrastructure. Only […]
Indoor Navigation using Consumer Portable Devices in Cart/Stroller
In the past few years, the huge and rapid development of portable devices (e.g. smartphones) as well as the increase in the number of users motivated researchers to effectively use the various components of such devices to develop different applications. One emerging application using smartphones is to navigate users in shopping centers or retail stores […]
Techniques for 3D Misalignment Calculation for Portable Devices in Cycling Applications
With the evolution of motion sensors, human motion can now be easily assessed outside a laboratory with a set of sensors, such as inertial sensors (e.g. accelerometers and gyroscopes), barometers, and magnetometers. With the recent advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS), MEMS-based sensors can be easily incorporated in small portable devices, such as watches, goggles, shoes, […]