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Space expertise helps Expo visitors
 
6 July 2010

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The Insiteo start-up company, supported by ESA’s Business Incubation Centre Noordwijk in the Netherlands, has developed a new mobile phone indoor navigation system, which helps visitors find their way around large inside spaces, such as exhibition centres.

Credits: Insiteo / ESA
 
 
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Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris
It can be difficult and confusing to find the best way around large exhibition sites, such as the Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, with its 575 000 sq m of exhibition space.

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The Insiteo’s solution provides a seamless continuation of location services to indoors, where navsat signals cannot penetrate. The diagram illustrates how the synchronised network of low-cost transmitters simulating indoor GPS and Galileo navigation signals are installed to provide a high level of accuracy.

Credits: Insiteo
 
 
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The navigation is provided on your standard mobile phone.

Credits: Insiteo
 
 
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Insiteo system shows the way on Porte de Versailles floor plan
The Insiteo inside navigation system shows the way on a mobile phone, on a floor plan such as this one from a hall in Porte de Versailles, Paris.

Credits: Insiteo
 
 
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