Geolocation from Google geolocation API for WIFI APs

It is almost the same technique, like GSM LBS.

Any big provider (of OS, or any service, that continuously monitor GPS coordinates in big amounts) can send along with GPS signal also list and strength of WiFi/other network signals.

Then this data needs to be analyzed, and if some BSSID (unique WiFi hardware identifier) is always near some GPS-coordinates, service can remember its position.

Then when you have no GPS signal, or it is weak, you send list of nearest WiFi points and service can tell your location. With some math applied, it can be precise enough.

guys, i hope you have in mind that ALL this Geolocation providers are charging PER Request.
So if you are requesting this from Gurtam, they will need to pay by request and will need to charge you by request which can make your costs exploding!

Wolf.

(p.s. google just changed their price scheme from a flat fee to a completely usage based fee!)

Hi Pash

I accept that there is a small - yet growing - number of GPS/GSM/WIFI enabled devices on the market at present, but a mere environmental scan of IoT devices that have emerged and will continue to emerge that provide asset proximity awareness that is considerably more power frugal than traditional GPS tracking shows a growing trend.

Chipsets are getting cheaper.  CATM-1 and NBIOT will reduce the bottom line of device manufacturing.  Wifi is another geolocation tool - similar to LBS.

By my reckoning, the following devices currently support wifi MAC AP capture that should allow for geolocation proxemics:

Meitrack P99G
Digital Matter devices (Yabby and Falcon)
TK10
Micron Prime Bolt
Some Queclink devices
GalileoSky Wifi 7.0
Loka

... to name a few.  There are some premium vendors and hardware manufacturers (and some Gurtam partners) that have implemented this tech.  Perhaps Gurtam should follow the trend?

In simple terms, it should work the same way that LBS lookup does?

I am not sure how to add my vote, but I know we do have devices that are able to collect Wifi Data that I have put to test manually to test the Google's Wifi Geolocation servies.

It would be an added value of being able to bring indoor tracking to some current and some future devices. It would allow in some cases to sell more devices because they are capable to locate indoors as well as outdoors using GPS.