Summarizing Location Awareness

• 1 cm resolution available outdoors (differential GPS)

  • Prices dropping rapidly

• 2ñ3 m resolution available indoors (various means)

• Federal mandate for geolocating cellular E911 calls

• Localizers promise sub-centimeter resolution

  • VLSI implementation suitable for widespread use
  • Works well indoors
  • Easy to integrate with GPS

Centimeter resolution location awareness will be cheap and universal

The technology is there. They will come.

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