A MapUme end user is anybody having a smart phone with a set of functionality similar to iPhone (cellular network, WLAN, 3D accelerometers, internet connectivity) who want or need to share online her/his real-time location information with friends and colleagues. A longer term goal is to provide an indoor localisation system as affordable as outdoor GPS, while empowering even non-expert users to build their next killer indoor location-based application within their own domain. We currently experience a growing demand for location-aware services.

Global Positioning System (GPS), while useful outdoors is ineffective indoors. Typical indoor systems based on infrared, ultrasound, and ultra wide band are inhibited by limited range. Alternatives are Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based wireless location systems with the first commercial products now available.
However, acceptance of existing systems is hindered by two issues.

• Their poor adaptability to different environments
• Their high system ownership cost due to the labour intensive and cumbersome system installation and maintenance.

MapUme technology helps address both these issues, firstly with its novel self calibration mechanism (preliminary patent filed) and secondly as an opportunistic location system that doesn’t require a dedicated infrastructure.

• Indoor and Outdoor Navigation
• Indoor and Outdoor Tracking
• Low Cost Installation
• Uses existing Infrastructure