All good modern navigation services, but when it comes to satellite systems, in rooms and under the surface they lose the ability to work. And in some buildings of the metropolis Navigator needs more than on the street – to get lost in a shopping centre or airport is easy.
According to the developer Steven Trenton-Smith, Apple launches service for positioning indoors. A corresponding app called Indoor Survey found in the App store. “Putting marks on the map in the Survey, you are showing your position inside the room in which you go, – stated in the description of the program. – The application will modify the data of the RF signal, and combine them with the data of the sensors of the iPhone. The end result is that the positioning inside buildings without the use of additional hardware”.
It is assumed that Indoor Survey works based technology company WifiSLAM, Apple bought in early 2013. The service has developed technology for positioning mobile devices inside buildings with the use of data from Wi-Fi. It allows you to determine the coordinates of a user with a smartphone indoors with accuracy up to 2.5 meters and when you go to another floor update the map on the screen of the mobile device. Obviously, such opportunities will appear and the owners of iPhone and iPad with Indoor Survey.
Thus, the Apple branded cards will be able to show where there are cafes, shops and individual departments and ATMs – in the case of shopping malls, as well as the gates – in the case of airports. The function is clearly not excessive, given the enormous size and complexity of some of the hubs.
Indoor Survey available in the App Store only through the direct link, it cannot be found through the search. Version 1.0 was released in October 27, but was only discovered now. The app is compatible with devices on iOS 9 and above.
