Significance of Indoor Location Systems in Our Daily Lives
Before Google maps, people used to travel with actual maps to find their way outs. But nowadays, it is challenging to imagine our life and daily traveling without any assistance from Google Maps that use a satellite-based Global Positioning System (GPS) to provide an accurate position outdoor. However, GPS & satellite technologies lack precision or miserably fail the moment you enter underground parking, a shopping mall, or an airport because there isn’t any visual contact with the satellites due to the walls and roof of the building. The same thing happens in cities with high-rise buildings, such as New York. These buildings shield the view to the sky such that only a few satellites are directly able to send signals without any hindrance. These buildings reflect GPS signals, which, in turn, causes signal delays, and thus, the GPS chip incorrectly calculates the position. To solve this problem, Indoor Positioning is gaining immense popularity worldwide. Indoor location syst...
