The Website of Hans G. Schantz

Location and RTLS Updates

by Hans|Published October 11, 2010|2 comments

It was a busy week to have been out on vacation. Here are some RTLS and Location-Based Services links to help get caught up:

My employer, NFER® RTLS vendor Q-Track, unveiled an updated website, took second place in the Global Security Challenge, West Coast Final, and was featured in RFID Journal for a successful firefighter location trial. Earlier coverage here. Also, here’s a video of the prototype of Q-Track’s new proximity detection and collision avoidance system, now with several successful customer deployments up and running.

WiFi® RTLS vendor Ekahau offers a really cool “heatmapper” WiFi signal strength survey tool for free download, and recently completed a RTLS deployment at a Helsinki clinic.
UWB RTLS vendor, Ubisense, introduced a tri-mode tag and updated their Transit Yard Manager.
WiFi® RTLS vendor, Aeroscout, reports a record year.
Patent Gives Facebook Broad Power Over Mobile Location Networking [Update] | BNET. More on some prior art.

AUTHOR

Hans

Hans G. Schantz is the Principal Scientist of Geeks and Nerds Corporation (GaN). He was co-founder and CTO of Q-Track Corporation until GaN's acquisition of Q-Track in 2019. Co-inventor of NFER indoor location technology, he has more than 40 U.S. patents to his credit. He is the author of The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas, The Biographies of John Charles Fremont, and the science fiction thriller, The Hidden Truth, available free through Kindle Unlimited. The sequel, A Rambling Wreck, was a finalist for the Conservative Libertarian Fiction Alliance 2018 Book of the Year, and third in the series is The Brave and the Bold. His latest work is The Wise of Heart, an illustrated courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism that updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the twenty-first century. Dr. Schantz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and explains his unique solution to wave particle duality at the Fields & Energy Substack.

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