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RTLS Updates: Cell Phone Tracking, WiFi/NFER/UWB RTLS, and RFID

by Hans|Published March 9, 2011

Here are some RTLS news items of interest:

Chinese plans to track cell phones raise concerns: Beijing to track people’s movements via their mobile phones – Computerworld. Hat Tip: @TheSchnack
Skyhook brings location-awareness to the Sony NGP, including WiFi-only models — Engadget.
Computer scientists develop smart, less obtrusive tracking system — PhysOrg.com.
Updating a story mentioned previously on ÆtherCzar (Surveilled Student Finds Tracker, FBI Demands It Back), now there’s a lawsuit: My Way News – Student files lawsuit over FBI’s GPS tracking.
“5 reasons your hospital needs Wi-Fi RTLS” Hat Tip: @Open_Spectrum.
Ubisense dropping IPO hints? | Cambridge technology news | Cabume.
Ekahau RTLS Blog – HOW ACCURATE IS IT? Typically 3m on average. (Hat Tip: @revolutionwifi). Compare to NFER RTLS accuracy, within 1m 80% of the time according to a study presented at 2011 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium in January.

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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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