
OPENING INDOORS: THEADVENT OF INDOOR
POSITIONING
Michael Brown
1
, James Pinchin
1
& Chris Hide
2
1
Horizon Digital Economy Research, Nottingham, UK
2
Nottingham Geospatial Institute, Nottingham, UK
Indoor positioning technologies have the potential to be a revolu-
tionary technology in the same way that mass market access to
GPS revolutionised outdoor navigation. No single indoor position-
ing technology currently exists to provide a solution for every indoor
navigation use case, however many candidate technologies have been
proposed. Future indoor navigation systems are likely to need to call
upon the strengths of many technologies to provide a hybrid position ...