Technology Overview
Pole Star: multi-disciplinary expertise at the service of Location Based Solutions
The core expertise of Pole Star is the development of highly accurate location based technologies (for urban environments and indoors) providing seamless indoor-outdoor transition. This expertise has developed out of in-depth knowledge of satellite navigation systems (especially GPS, EGNOS, Galileo) and wireless telecommunications, extensive expertise in signal processing and in the development of embedded software especially for mobile phones.
Satisfying the needs of the most demanding applications
Pole Star solutions have excellent performance levels and satisfy the most exacting applications such as door-to-door guidance in urban environments. Pole Star technologies are patented.
Pole Star technology finally gives you the means to develop your solutions:
- Door-to-door guidance with accurate location in the right street, train stations, subway tunnels, airports,
- Step by step guidance of the visually impaired and people with reduced mobility,
- Local search, geolocalized social networks, geotagging : immediate access to service both inside buildings and outdoors,
- Security and rescue teams (ie. firefighters) : improved security of in-the-field teams during operations inside buildings.
Opening up new developments
Pole Star know-how includes:
- The development of location based technologies inside buildings using Wi-Fi or Ultra Wide Band telecommunications technologies,
- Improved accuracy, coverage and calculation time of GPS equipped terminals (and in the future, Galileo and Compass), via the combination of GPS signals and signals from communication systems (Wi-Fi and UWB),
- Exploitation of geographic data in fusion algorithms with GPS signals and signals from telecommunications systems providing unequalled location accuracy in urban environments and inside buildings,
- Taking into consideration application constraints such as heterogeneous environments and modes of transportation.
Thanks to its participation in a wide range of projects, Pole Star has developed extensive expertise in design of complex telecommunications systems as well as the development of applications for mobile phones. Pole Star is strongly committed to protecting confidentiality issues. Hence, in our technologies designed for consumers, the position calculation is made on the user terminal without using any server.
