SENSOR TECHNOLOGY
Movea’s Latest Developments Show Pedestrians All the Right Moves,
Indoors & Out Not so long ago, directionally-challenged motorists around the globe exhaled a collective sigh of relief. With the arrival of GPS units for cars, the days of reading a tattered atlas strewn across the steering wheel or asking a gas station attendant for directions became a thing of the past. Since the advent of this new technology, GPS gadgets have kept pedestrians from getting lost pretty much everywhere they go, by car and on foot. Unfortunately, GPS technology doesn’t work so well indoors, where we spend about 90% of our time. Once indoors, the satellite signals that this technology relies upon are only about as strong as a dim light bulb and directionless pedestrians remain indentured to the “You are here” maps common to mega indoor spaces like shopping malls, airports, or underground transportation centers. With the announcement of Movea’s indoor navigation design suite year however, pedestrians can once again exhale a sigh of relief. Just as the arrival of GPS replaced atlases, Movea’s pedestrian navigation technology will make “You are here” maps a relic of the past.
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