Life & fun · September 7, 2017
Indoor positioning for robots and AGVs using UWB beacons
Estimote launching precise indoor positioning for robots & AGVs using UWB beacons In the beginning, our hardware and software were capable of just broadcasting and understanding iBeacon packets. But...
Indoor positioning for robots and AGVs using UWB beacons launched on September 7, 2017 with 22 votes, #807 of 3,072 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
Estimote's indoor positioning system uses UWB beacons to provide precise location tracking for robots and autonomous guided vehicles. The technology enables accurate positioning in indoor environments where GPS is unavailable. Built on Estimote's broader vision for a physical world operating system, it represents an evolution from their earlier iBeacon-based solutions, extending location capabilities beyond consumer applications to industrial automation and robotics use cases.
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From the sources
In the beginning, our hardware and software were capable of just broadcasting and understanding iBeacon packets. But from the very start we’ve had a much broader vision and wanted to create an operating system for the physical world. One of the first steps was to release the Indoor SDK for iOS, which created a whole new area of possibilities for defining location based actions. Then we used all of our know-how in order to add the next brick to the foundation of our physical world OS, by creating the Android version of the Indoor SDK. However, the physical world isn’t only for people. In industrial applications, robots start to play a major role and consequently they need to…from blog.estimote.com
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