Nearbuy Captive Portal - Nearbuy Systems The Nearbuy Captive Portal solution gives retailers an easy way to offer valuable WiFi service to shoppers and to understand multichannel shopping patterns. It takes shoppers through a one-time opt-in registration process, after which they can access the Internet quickly and easily every time they visit one of your stores. Nearbuy’s guest WiFi analytics deliver insights into network usage and shopper interests. Utilize Existing Infrastructure Nearbuy provides a centralized management interface that works with leading enterprise networking vendors such as Motorola Solutions, Aruba Networks, and Cisco so you can utilize your existing store WiFi infrastructure to support new guest WiFi capabilities. Meet Shopper Needs The smartphone has become an integral part of how many shoppers make purchase decisions. Make it Fast to Connect Shoppers don’t have much time or patience; they just want to get online. Understand Multichannel Shopping
Skyhook Thought Den » Blog Archive » Top 5 Indoor Geolocation technologies **this article was updated on 25/4/12 after the good people from Insiteo and Polestar got in touch! If you would like to add to this article please contact George Rowe** Why is indoor gelocation so hard? GPS, as you probably know, uses signals constantly transmitted by satellites in orbit round the earth to calculate your position. Unfortunately, these signals aren’t powerful enough to penetrate anything thicker than the tin roof of your Ford Capri. One method is WiFi fingerprinting: your device measures the signal strength of any WiFi networks in range and, along with cartographical knowledge of these network, uses that to calculate position. However, fingerprinting requires a costly and time consuming signal strength calibration at the kick off. Let’s take a lot at some current technologies for Indoor Geolocation: 1. Jean Baptiste from Polestar told Thought Den: “At this stage our positioning database is built based on a Wi-Fi survey completed on field. 2. 3. PROS: Free SDK! 4. 5.
Stumbler - iphone-wireless - Stumbler - the Wireless Network Stumbler for the iPhone - Wireless development and research on the iPhone A new release from the iphone-wireless team, Stumbler lets you view the wireless networks in your area. While right now Stumbler only handles 802.11 networks, soon you should see Bluetooth and GSM capabilities as well. Stumbler can not be distributed through the app store, as it uses private APIs! Stumbler is still in a early Alpha stage, but it is fully functional, and pretty stable. Planned Features Auto Scanning Manufacturer detection Logging A-GPS Raw 802.11 packet capture (monitor mode) Download here:
Oledcomm LiZE | We bring you more than light... iPhone Wireless Scanner iOS5 | Guvener Gokce As followers know, last year Apple has blocked wifi scanners from App Store, however till iOS5 it was still available for private usage via WiFiManager bundle: Old Path: /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/WiFiManager.bundle/WiFiManager in iOS5, WifiManager bundle no more exists however 80211 functions are still available via IPConfiguration bundle New Path: The scanning functions are the same as previous version (For detailed information: ) but there is one thing you need to while developing Correct Path in IOS: (in this path, app runs with root user permissions) Wrong Path in IOS: /private/var/mobile/Applications (in this path, app runs with mobile user permissions) I have prepared a sample project for using Stumbler class on iOS5, you can download it via Also I would like to share couple of screens that may be interesting for some developers. 1) Disassembled screen of iPConfiguration (Processed with IDA Evaluation by HEx Rays ) Credits:
New Indoor Navigation Technologies Work Where GPS Can’t Today you can easily find your way to, say, the nearest Starbucks in a strange city, thanks to a cascade of events that began a little more than 30 years ago, when a Soviet Sukhoi interceptor flying high over the Sea of Japan fired off two heat-seeking missiles. The long-term result: You now have no trouble locating a cappuccino. Of course, you’re not finding that coffee by the heat it gives off. You are most likely guided to it in missile-like fashion by the GPS receiver in your smartphone or on your dashboard. The Department of Defense dutifully carried out Reagan’s instructions to make GPS signals available for civilian uses, but it hedged at first, adding random timing errors to the satellite signals accessible to nonmilitary GPS units so they could determine locations to no better than 100 meters. It’s a huge problem, one that radio engineers are keen to solve. How good are the position fixes? In this special zone, the emanations from a radio antenna are rather peculiar. The U.
De-De Blog : The amazing iOS 5 API nobody talks about Location-enabling Your Grocery Store: Indoor Positioning Locates Your Favorite Peanut Butter and More Summary: Malls, grocery stores and other indoor venues are being mapped to help shoppers find not only store locations but products and promotions. Point Inside is helping mall developers, retailers and their customers with indoor positioning solutions. Malls, grocery stores and other indoor venues are being mapped and indoor positioning systems will help shoppers find not only store locations but products and promotions. Directions Magazine (DM): Let's start with the basics. Brian Wilson (BW): When we're privy to the locations of Wi-Fi access points in a venue we'll map those and provide the locations to Skyhook, Google and Apple for inclusion in their databases. DM: You've mapped quite a few malls and store locations. BW: Our internal team creates each map. DM: Were mall developers willing to provide their engineering or CAD drawings in order for you to have very accurate drawings of the buildings? DM: Generally, grocery stores follow very similar layouts from store to store.