Using Wi-Fi to track people indoors could be...
Using Wi-Fi to track people indoors could be useful in various business applications, Cisco told FCC officials Wednesday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1bS7Gf2). Cisco cited several possible uses for the technology, which is under development. They included “asset tracking,…
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analytics on people flow, valuing floorspace, find the expert (retail), hospitality - personalized guest engagement; use of unassigned workspace (which cube is empty today?); and turn by turn navigation on a campus or in a hospital.” The “indoor location alliance” is working on various standards that would enable the architecture, Cisco said. “802.11mc Fie Timing Measurement Protocol over the 802.11ac (80Mhz) physical layer” will be able to produce 10 feet of accuracy on a horizontal X/Y axis 90 percent of the time, said the company. More accurate data could be possible with the use of “angle of arrival” data, it said. “Retailers, in particular, are interested in detailed granulation of location data so that they can track traffic through specific aisles in their stores."