Ubiloc (GLoc-Indoor)

Despite more than 20 years of indoor navigation research and development, it is still difficult to combine reliability, robustness, genericity (i.e. multi-use-case purposed) and easy implementations of the available solutions.

GLoc offers an efficient and cost-optimized approach to this problem:

1. Our Hardware is embedded in Emergency Lighting Units, a mandatory infrastructure in public-access buildings
2. Our symbolic algorithms aim at providing the best reliability and robustness for our geodata

Télécom SudParis has been conducting research on indoor positioning for over 25 years, and has carried out a comparative study of more than 40 technologies. This work has now led us to propose an unconventional approach to the problem.

The technology developed is based on a so-called "symbolic" approach, which consists of providing positioning in the form of an area in which the probability of presence of the Tag to be located is exceptionally high. It guarantees measurement reliability through a position validity indicator. (On the contrary, conventional approaches consist in providing the best precision possible occurring with very low probabilities, providing low reliability). The tag can be on a person or an object.

• Reliable and robust : operational under all real-life operating conditions : for example, when a receiver is out of order, only precision is degraded
• Generic, platform-agnostic : powerful system for a wide variety of data and use cases
• Cost-effective implementation : pre-installed generic infrastructure
• Scalable and incremental : easy scaling and incremental deployment
• On-demand : data as a service, cloud native computation, Smart Data