![]() Don Dodge was an investor in WiFiSlam before it was acquired by Apple in March 2013 according to a disclosure he made in one of his blog entries published a year ago. Yet an interesting factoid was learned about Dodge when conducting our research for this report. Apple's indoor location technology is currently recorded as having real-time accuracy of 2.5 meters.ĭon Dodge is an interesting individual who is currently an investor in ByteLight, and an advisor to Aisle411 and Navisens while working at Google as a Developer Advocate. More specifically, he noted that high accuracy today is considered to be in the 1 to 5 meters range. Google's Don Dodge notes that magnetic sensors are able to pick up the Earth's natural magnetic forces to determine latitude/longitude position similar to the way a compass works, but two dimensional, and is much more accurate. One of the main technologies employed in Google's beacon technology patent is that of magnet sensor technology. #Don dodge on the next big thing android#Our cover graphic illustrates a part of a museum scenario that Google lays out and in the patent figure 5 noted above, we're able to see how using indoor location technology and an app on Android users will be able to have information about a picture or painting pushed to their device so that it's like a private tour of the museum. The service will also one day extend to providing Android users with detailed indoor maps for malls, office buildings and beyond. Google provided an example of a future Android user being able to use an indoor location service to find information about a painting as they approached it in a museum. This week the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Google that revealed an overview of a Beacon centric indoor location system for future indoor location services for Android. Google Invents a Beacon Centric Indoor Location System Today's report briefly touches on Google's latest patent application while providing you with a few interesting twists that you might find informative as the war between iOS and Android on indoor location services gets ready to explode.Īpple Patent Figure Regarding Infrared Technology used in a Museum It's obvious that Apple has likewise shifted gears in respect to this new technology. What's interesting about Google's invention is that it replaces infrared with beacon technology. One is from Apple and two are from a new patent application from Google. Today's report provides you with 3 museum specific patent figures. Vaidhyanathan pronounces his own name (MP3) Mark Rotenberg Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center Chris Sherman Associate Editor, Search Engine Watch Jason Schultz Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundationīlogger, lawgeek.In 2011 we posted a report titled "Apple working on a Sophisticated Infrared System for iOS Cameras." In that report we pointed to Apple's patent application providing a specific example regarding infrared technology's use in a museum scenario The museum would be set up with an infrared transmitter so that when visitors with an iPhone would approach a painting or artifact, a special app on the iPhone would be able to receive information about the piece in the form of a photo, a video, some simple background specifics or an audio track that could act as your personal museum guide. Inspired in part by a comment from Scarequotes Siva Vaidhyanathan Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication, NYU How much do search engines know about us? Can we trust them to keep it to themselves? And if they’re not going to protect us, how can we protect ourselves? In short, Google knows what you’re looking for. But each of those searches you run - about a medical condition, about divorce law, about no-credit loans - sits in a database maintained by Google or Yahoo or Microsoft, each one attached to your unique computer address. John Battelle calls search a “database of intentions,” a record of everything we want or want to know. Do we know, however, that everything we look for can be known and made public? We know - perhaps - they can read our emails at will. So we know that if we give our credit card number out over the Internet, someone else might find it and make use of it. If they hadn’t, would we even have known about this new intrusion into our private lives? It’s an unfathomably broad request (and it’s not about child porn, but we’ll explain that later), and Google refused. They say it’s about protecting kids from sketchy web-fare. The Department of Justice asked Google last summer for a list of every indexed website and every searched-for term over a month-long period. ![]()
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