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SeekerLocate™ is a next-gen hybrid location engine that provides comprehensive, accurate mobile phone location coverageoutdoors, indoors and underground - anywhere that GPS, cellular or WiFi coverage is available.
Employing the world’s most advanced radio location technology - developed by the pioneers of cellular location methods – SeekerLocate™ allows any business application, whether handset or server-based, to leverage the power of device localisation for maximum user benefit.
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SeekerLocate™ extends the reach of LBS to non-GPS handsets, and enhances location services for users with GPS handsets. For Service Providers that have been frustrated by the limitations of GPS, SeekerLocate™ is an intelligent, real-world solution that delivers accurate localisation in virtually any environment.
Service Provider Benefits
By extending localisation to non-GPS handsets, SeekerLocate™ creates a larger revenue opportunity for the service provider.
- Localise served content, such as web, directory or map search results, to maximise its relevance and value
- Deliver location-specific push advertising
- Deliver zone-based alerts or advertising
- Geographically track assets and/or people
- Location-enable social networking services
- Provide geographical security services, such as emergency subscriber location
- Collect anonymous activity data to establish subscriber movement patterns
- Deliver navigation services that work indoors
Accurate Localisation, Comprehensive Coverage
By combining three radio technologies, SeekerLocate™ works indoors, outdoors, in the CBD, underground, in vehicles – anywhere there is a GPS, WiFi or cellular network signal. Even in areas where GPS is available, the solution can enhance user experience by always delivering an immediate location, followed by a location with greater precision once GPS signal acquisition is complete.
If a handset moves from outdoors to a location that shields GPS signals, SeekerLocate™ utilises cellular and WiFi measurements (as available). Where two or more signal types are available, the observations are combined to deliver the best location fix possible.
Distributed Processing: Minimal Network Impact
Instead of relying on a live poll of the subscriber’s handset from the network – which can consume valuable network resources – the SeekerLocate™ client running on the handset captures live radio measurements at the handset, and either calculates location locally, or sends measurements back to a central server.
This handset-centric architecture results in a system that is much more accurate than Network Cell-ID, and has a massively scalable architecture.
Key Features
- Fast and accurate
- Reliable indication of the location uncertainty enables applications to tailor their operation intelligently based on the real accuracy of a particular location fix
- Resilient to radio network configuration changes
- Massively scalable, with the ability to location-enable the majority of subscribers from day one
- Zone detection and future services built in, such as location-based advertising
- Works with both cellular and WiFi networks
- Able to leverage other sources of information (such as GPS, if available) to deliver further performance gains
- Low infrastructure and operational costs
- Optionally operator-independent - can locate handsets on any network, ideal for location aggregators or other service providers operating over the top (OTTP) location-based services
Multiple Implementation Options
The SeekerLocate™ client can be installed using a variety of methods:
- STK applet pre-installed on SIM
- STK applet deployed OTA
- Handset client pre-installed
- Handset client offered for download via portal
- Integrate with existing GPS navigation clients for broader device coverage, enhanced spatial coverage & TTFF
Seamless Integration with Existing Applications
The SeekerLocate™ Server can integrate with a wide range of third party applications and network components, to provide location intelligence to those applications. On the device, SeekerLocate™ can run in memory on all major mobile platforms, or on the SIM for high security applications, and can be installed as a function library for use by other installed applications.
Device libraries are available for:
- Symbian®
- J2ME (Java®)
- Windows® Mobile
- BlackBerry®
- SIM ToolKit (MNO implementation)
For more information about SeekerLocate, please contact us.