Apple's patent for a Wi-Fi-based positioning system was first filed for in 2010 and credits Ronald K. Huang as its inventor. Follow AppleInsider on Google News 16 Comments ...

Apple has a new patent granted by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), and it describes a for determining a user’s position when they’re indoors, using existing Wi-Fi infrastructure instead of ...

Founded in 2010 in Victoria, B.C., Wifarer’s approach to indoor positioning was primarily centered on Android for many years, which sort of makes the CEO’s hire by Apple an odd one.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has acquired indoor location company WifiSLAM, paying around $20 million for the firm. Apple has confirmed the purchase, but declined to offer any ...

Indoor Survey is only accessible by direct link and does not appear in the App Store's search tool. Now at version 1.0, the title was last updated on Oct. 27, is compatible with iPhone, iPad and ...

Apple’s Wi-Fi-based Positioning System Reveals Access Point Locations. At his Krebs on Security site, Brian Krebs writes: Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took ...

Apple has used Wi-Fi positioning as an element of its location services for many years. The company’s Look Around feature in Maps relies on vehicles that drive around recording images, but they ...

10 Wi-Fi configuration tips from Apple for better wireless connectivity, performance Your email has been sent iPhone, iPad and Mac users, increasingly dependent upon wireless connections, can take ...

A mysterious app that Apple does not catch on the search of the App Store "Indoor Survey"It has become a hot topic in part because it was released. Apparently this is a mystery-rich application ...

Both Apple and Google operate their own Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPS) that obtain certain hardware identifiers from all wireless access points that come within range of their mobile devices.

Opportunistic positioning using observed Wi-Fi signals is a well established method of absolute positioning in GNSS-denied environments. Off-the-shelf Wi-Fi access point hardware is not well suited to ...