What would it be like to have a doctor who’s always up on the latest research and has learned about treatments from over 1.5 million previous cases? It would look alot like Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy! playing supercomputer that’s getting ready to roll out with an all new look and a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center education in oncology.
Indoor Positioning System Becoming Reality with Broadcom's new Chip.
Are you ready for the indoor equivalent of GPS?
Broadcom released a new chip that will likely find its way into our smartphones within the next year. It will allow GPS-type location data to be streamed in real-time from your cell phone. Google has been developing indoor mapping technology for years, and Nokia is developing a mapping system which uses full 3D maps.
A Google Maps of your local mall showing you the ideal path in 3D is not far off.
The Broadcom chip, which uses Bluetooth and NFC (Near Field Communications) for location is much more accurate and precise than Google's solution, which uses wifi.
Another thing that makes the Broadcom solution unique is that it will also include other sensors to become as accurate as possible--your phone's gyroscope (direction), altimeter (altitude), and accelerometer (steps), for example.
This is yet another source of new data for companies to plan for and strategize with. What can precise location and movement data tell you about your customers, employees, and products? You can learn where people are looking, for how long, if they start going somewhere and change their minds, where they like to stand, the list of possibilities goes on.
The time to start thinking about how to use this data is now. Prepare for it to start coming from mobile phones in 2013 or 2014.
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