Location Based Systems/Services

This Location SIG is championed by:

David Bartlett of Omnisense
Nigel Wall of Shadow Creek Consulting
Peter Montgomery of GSMA
 
The purpose of the SIG is to promote and further the adoption of location as a value-added facility for a range of applications. Location Based Services are not about position – they are primarily about the use of location and position information as a value-add to service or product the end-user buys.
 
The specific objectives are:
  • Advocate location as a value-add to any appropriate application
  •  Encourage and support the creation of open APIs
  • Develop and promote sustainable business models for LB
  •  Offer expertise to guide regulatory and standards development
  • Provide expert input to sensitive issues such as privacy 
  • Foster interoperability between technologies and applications
Recent Event 

Location Based Systems/Services SIG: 4th November 2009 "How do we Make Location a Desirable User Experience?" 

Click on the titles below to view the provocateurs' presentations and the notes from the three group discussions -

Introduction from Colin Smithers of Plextek

Group 1: Technology - Presentation by Adrian Swinburne of Quintaxiom + Faciliator's Notes

Group 2: Context - Presentation by Kurt Lyall of Xgenta + Faciliator's Notes

Group 3: Privacy -  Facilitator's Notes 

For presentations from earlier SIG events please click here 

Next Event  

Location Based Systems/Services SIG, β€˜Is Inertial Technology the missing link for Location Systems?’

This superb event investigates the possible solutions to location systems and focusing on the very real possibility that the production of low cost technology could hold the key. This SIG event provides an examination of the options and what they could mean for your organisation concisely packaged into an unmissable half-day event.

This SIG is championed by David Bartlett of Omnisense and Nigel Wall of Shadow Creek Consulting. 
Inertial sensors have been used for many years in military systems - typically comprising accelerometers and rate gyroscopes arranged on orthogonal axes to detect rotation and movement. Until recently the technology has been limited to high end systems due to high cost, large size and high power requirement. Low cost MEMs accelerometers have been available for some time now, and recently low cost MEMs gyroscopes have become available. These low cost components have high drift rates and relatively poor stability compared with traditional sensors, but the promise they offer to location systems is very alluring - continuous location when radio systems such as GNSS become unavailable. Could they hold the key to the implementation of reliable and ubiquitous location when used in association with GNSS and/or other radiolocation techniques? And are there other inertial techniques that could be used to supplement accelerometers and gyroscopes?

Speakers confirmed to date are:
 
Working through the options and debating the pros and cons of these possibilities is the remit for these SIG events and as a result they are highly popular. Ample time will be allowed for networking over the course of this concise half-day event. Booking is essential.
 
Events are FREE to Cambridge Wireless Members. Tickets for non-members are £150.00 plus VAT. To join Cambridge Wireless, and attend all future events for free please visit: www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/sign-up 

Why not maximise your organisation’s presence at the event by having a display table! Please email admin@cambridgewireless.co.uk to determine availability and charges. Places are already limited!

This event is supported by: ‘Discovering Start-Ups 2010' an EEDA funded project

www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/discoveringstartups
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