Nokia navigate with its competitors

Nokia will cooperate with companies Samsung and Sony to produce standards and ways to navigate inside buildings, they become available next year

First solutions use standards and Bluetooth 4.0 Wifi
Nokia makes navigation inside buildings alliance with its competitors. States, which includes strong players in the cellular market - Samsung and Sony (Apple not included), designed to create innovative ways and standards for navigation within buildings. In a press release distributed today (Wednesday), states that "the U.S. will focus on creating solutions that show high accuracy, low power, portability and usability."
First solutions to use Wifi and Bluetooth standards 4.0. Is to start pilot projects and design business models in 2012, and spread the technology to market next year, in 2013. Just last month Nokia announced itself that finished mapping of more than -4600 covered areas around the world.
Currently, there are two main ways for a mobile phone to identify where it is. The first is using a satellite receiver, works with old GPS satellite system (GLONASS system or Russian, launched recently). The second way, which has become more efficient in recent years, is using Wifi networks. Makers of popular operating systems in the market - Android and iOS, holding a map of the network and the beauty all over the world. When your smartphone is turned on Wifi and Internet connection, it can scan a network around and turn map to figure out where he is. The process is called triangulation, because space two - dimensional three points will meet in only one place.
The problem with this process is not accurate. Solution Nokia and its partners to promote the Soviet try it using these points will have indoor public spaces like shopping malls installed around the place, and these points transmission device to the exact location.