http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2012/02/13/lost-in-a-store-the-lightbulbs-can-beam-you-an-escape-route/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2012/02/13/lost-in-a-store-the-lightbulbs-can-beam-you-an-escape-route/#comment-26067 Krulwich Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:04:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=21089#comment-26067 Indoor Location positioning is definitely here this year - there are a number of companies that are already bringing it to market in stores, malls, etc:http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2012_02_indoor_CTO.html It will be a lot more fun as the technology gets more accurate and pervasive - there's loads of new research underway on this, including three major companies researching LED/light based approaches:http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2011_12_indoor.html Indoor Location positioning is definitely here this year – there are a number of companies that are already bringing it to market in stores, malls, etc:http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2012_02_indoor_CTO.html It will be a lot more fun as the technology gets more accurate and pervasive – there’s loads of new research underway on this, including three major companies researching LED/light based approaches:http://www.grizzlyanalytics.com/report_2011_12_indoor.html

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2012/02/13/lost-in-a-store-the-lightbulbs-can-beam-you-an-escape-route/#comment-26066 Joanna Meldner Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:24:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=21089#comment-26066 Human Interaction is all well and good. But it seems the author has never frequented the same IKEA stores as me - The only yellow-tshirt-wearing-human-shaped-blurr on the whole of the warehouse floor always has a group of at least 10 people battling for it's attention... I would much prefer the option of being digitally directed to the relevant isles, and gently reminded not to forget that Poang chair cushion from aisle A, because it is a very long trek back all the way from H.... Human Interaction is all well and good. But it seems the author has never frequented the same IKEA stores as me – The only yellow-tshirt-wearing-human-shaped-blurr on the whole of the warehouse floor always has a group of at least 10 people battling for it’s attention…
I would much prefer the option of being digitally directed to the relevant isles, and gently reminded not to forget that Poang chair cushion from aisle A, because it is a very long trek back all the way from H….

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