New Trial Data Demonstrates Polaris Wireless Leads Industry With Accurate Location for Challenging Indoor and Dense Urban Environments
Business Wire, Dec 02, 2009
Next Generation Solution Supports All Major Cellular Air Interfaces
Including 4G LTE
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Polaris Wireless, the global leader in high accuracy, software-based
location solutions, today announced its Polaris Wireless Location
Signatures (Polaris WLS) Hybrid technology established new benchmarks
in location performance, including better accuracy, reduced time to fix
and improved battery consumption, for indoor and dense urban
environments according to field trials conducted by major wireless
carriers globally. These trials, performed in multiple continents,
demonstrate that Polariss Hybrid solution performs better than A-GPS
alone in both indoor and complex environments, such as dense urban areas
with high rise buildings and many signal obstructions. In addition,
Polaris Wireless announced that its solution is 4G LTE ready with the
Hybrid solution supporting multiple cellular air interfaces (2G/3G/4G)
in a single platform in support of carriers multi-mode services and
devices.
The ability to locate wireless handsets and devices in indoor
environments is particularly important since that is where most users
originate voice and data calls, said Professor Per K. Enge, a leading
researcher at Stanford Universitys GPS Laboratory. Location
performance in places like high rise office buildings and indoor
shopping malls is critical to meeting consumer and enterprise demand as
well as emergency call requirements. Further, with the established trend
of mobile wireless replacing landline services, the importance of
accurate, timely and efficient location indoors will continue to rapidly
grow.
The advantage of the Polaris Wireless solution is that it works well in
non line-of-sight, cluttered environments with indoors being a
particularly challenging environment for cellular location systems,
said Dr. Marty Feuerstein, CTO of Polaris Wireless. WLS capitalizes on
complex obstructions and shadowing to improve location performance. In
addition, the Polaris Wireless Hybrid location solution for 4G LTE
networks enables truly global and ubiquitous location-aware applications
that offer consumers far more than todays turn-by-turn navigation.
North American carriers have recently conducted 3G location system
trials, testing indoor and outdoor wireless location performance over an
urban trial area of 10 square kilometers. Polaris out performed other
solutions with a consistent accuracy of 47 to 59 meters versus 230 to
250 meters at 67th percentile
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