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Now smartphones will help you navigate mega
malls
Monday May 14, 2012 10:02:53 AM,
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Berlin: Your smartphone helps you smoothly navigate highways and streets of an
unfamiliar city. But once you enter a mega mall, its global
positioning system (GPS) goes blind.
But now researchers from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute in
collaboration with the Bosch Corporation and others have devised a
navigation system for interiors. It cleverly combines sensors,
enabling the device to track the movements and position of its
user with precise detail.
"Wouldn't it be helpful?" Harald von Rosenberg of Fraunhofer
thought, "If at such moments a smartphone could quickly shift to
an interior space navigator, and point the way through the rows of
shops and stairwells."
Well, that is absolutely possible. Rosenberg, project manager for
motion control systems, Fraunhofer Institute, shows this through
the MST-Smartsense cooperation project from the German federal
ministry for education and research (BMBF), according to a
Fraunhofer statement.
Similar to conventional pedometers, the module registers how fast
and how far a person is walking. That said, it is much more
precise and intelligent than the customary devices found on the
market, because it even registers the direction in which the user
is walking.
Naturally, the interior space navigator only functions if it knows
the building. For this purpose, soon smartphones will
automatically download 3D building plans from the Internet. These
are coupled with the sensor module to display a user's current
position on the smartphone.
Researchers will deliver a live demonstration of the new
interior-space navigation system at the Sensor+Test trade fair, in
Nuremberg, Germany, from May 22-24.
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