Q&A: DecaWave’s Ciaran Connell on UWB, Indoor Location, Robots, and IoT (.PDF Download)

March 24, 2015

Knowing the position of a person or device can be quite useful in terms of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, determining that information indoors, where GPS is unavailable, can become a challenge. Unfortunately, GPS isn’t practical in many applications, such as very small, wearable devices. On top of that, many devices (e.g., robots) will only be used indoors, making GPS a bad choice for location information...

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