Ready-made indoor positioning in 2D
Combain Crowd Indoor Positioning is an indoor positioning system (IPS) designed to provide location-based services in buildings with weak or unavailable GNSS signals. This system leverages existing Bluetooth beacons and Wi-Fi access points for positioning, eliminating the need for new hardware or infrastructure.
The functionality of Combain Crowd Indoor Positioning is built on crowdsourced indoor training data collected from our apps, software development kits (SDKs), and various partners. After gathering this training data, our patented algorithms create a detailed model of the building’s radio environment. Once the model is developed and published, indoor positioning is available to all devices through the Combain Location API, specifically for users with Combain Crowd Indoor Positioning enabled.
Combain Crowd Indoor Positioning Benefits
The benefits of this service are numerous and varied. For businesses, Combain Crowd Indoor Positioning enhances navigation and tracking capabilities, which is crucial for applications like facility management, retail analytics, and visitor navigation in large environments such as airports, shopping malls, and hospitals. This system enables real-time positioning without requiring significant infrastructure investments, ensuring cost-effectiveness and scalability. For end users, the service provides a seamless and intuitive location-based experience, simplifying navigation in complex indoor spaces.
Crowdsourcing plays a critical role in improving the quality and coverage of this service. Combining learning data from partners, customers, and everyday users, Combain develops a more comprehensive and diverse dataset, increasing accuracy and coverage. Moreover, anonymous and aggregated data ensures users’ privacy and security while contributing to the overall enhancement of indoor positioning services worldwide.
- Ready to use: The system is often already available for public buildings since it uses existing infrastructure and crowdsourcing, and manual system setup or deployment of new routers or beacons like traditional indoor positioning systems is not required.
- Decent accuracy: The actual accuracy of Combain Crowd Indoor Positioning depends on building and beacon density, but typically, a median error of 10-40m is obtained for public buildings. The accuracy can be improved by at least 2x through extra crowdsourcing using the Combain API Demo App for Android. If you need better accuracy than 10m or 3D positioning, check out the Combain Manual Indoor or AI Indoor solutions.
- Contribute and improve: You can optionally enhance the accuracy of your specific use case by submitting your training data using the Combain API Demo App or Android SDK.
- Community-powered: Benefits from the ongoing contributions of the broader Combain user base.
Smart Buildings with Indoor Asset Management
Indoor positioning is increasingly essential due to the growth of indoor location-based services and the rising demand for smart buildings.
- Asset tracking can monitor the location of equipment and inventory within a building, helping businesses optimize operations and enhance efficiency.
- Indoor analytics collects data on how devices move within a building, identifying the most crowded areas and the most frequently used routes. This information can be utilized to optimize building layouts and enhance the overall user experience.
- Security & Safety: Panic buttons and user tracking systems can enhance building safety. This is particularly vital in large or complex structures such as hospitals, industrial facilities, and office buildings.
Combain Crowd Indoor Positioning can significantly enhance user experience, improve efficiency, and increase safety in various indoor environments.
Submit anonymized training data to enhance service. Training data never shared with any third party.
Available in >260 million buildings through crowdsourcing and is growing rapidly.
Public buildings often have enough crowdsourced data for immediate use.
Truly global
Based on billions of positions from global crowdsourcing
The service uses Combain’s global database of Indoor WiFis and Bluetooth beacons. Our algorithms continuously update the database by processing millions of positions from global crowdsourcing. Your usage of the API is private and not shared with any third party.
Summary
- Indoor WiFi access points and Bluetooth beacons.
- No setup – public buildings often have enough crowdsourced data for immediate use.
- Request position in lat/long (2D).
- Accuracy 20-40 m*.
Floor accuracy > 95%. - To improve accuracy – install more beacons.
- The service continuously self-improves through crowdsourcing of training data. Devices sending valid GNSS data and radio data enable system training that improves accuracy.
* Actual accuracy depends on
- Density of WiFis/Bluetooth beacons
- Training method
- Building structure
- Device capabilities