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ATAP Project Tango – Google. Supermechanical: Twine. Listen to your home, wherever you are. Buy Kinect for Windows Sensors & Accessories | Kinect for Windows. Networking, iPhone, iPad, Samsung and Kindle Accessories | Belkin USA Site. DoppelLab | Tools for Exploring & Harnessing Multimodal Sensor Network Data. NAVVIS system guides users through buildings via a collection of photos. The NAVVIS interface on a user's smartphone Image Gallery (3 images) While we’ve pretty much got to the point where we take GPS-enabled navigation systems for granted, there’s one rather prominent place where they can’t access the necessary satellites – indoors.

A number of projects have taken on the challenge of indoor navigation, incorporating things like accelerometers, “invisible” landmarks, rapidly flickering lights, and magnetic fields. The experimental new NAVVIS system, however, utilizes a database of photographs. The technology is being developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich. They started by wheeling a trolley down the corridors of their maze-like main campus. The data gathered by the scanners was used to create a continuous three-dimensional map of the corridors, which was overlaid on photos of the corresponding areas.

Although the NAVVIS system is still in development, the researchers are already envisioning other uses for it. About the Author. MeetingMatrix – Connecting Venues and Event Planners. Interactive Plan.