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Hybrid indoor location to dominate billion unit smartphone market, says ABI Research [Global Data Point]
[August 17, 2013]

Hybrid indoor location to dominate billion unit smartphone market, says ABI Research [Global Data Point]


(Global Data Point Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Apple's acquisition of WiFiSLAM has brought smartphone indoor location technologies to the fore. With over one billion new smartphones forecast to utilize indoor location technologies in 2018, there are still significant opportunities for companies with the right technologies and strategies, according to ABI Research.



"We see a significant trend towards hybridization, with Wi-Fi, BLE and sensor fusion vita," commented ABI Research senior analyst, Patrick Connolly. "By 2014, hybrid solutions will have already surpassed standalone indoor location technologies on smartphones, with Wi-Fi and sensor fusion hybrid solutions reaching over 900 million units in 2018. Longer term, technologies around optical light, object recognition and LTE-direct are all forecast to offer differentiation." Practice director Dominique Bonte added, "We are already seeing start-ups pivot out of this space, but there is still huge opportunity for partnerships/acquisitions with major Android handset vendors, carriers and large application developers. Clearly Google is developing its own Wi-Fi indoor location solution; however, it may well open up its indoor location framework, enabling the market to expand much more rapidly. For IC vendors, with access to the hardware abstraction layer, indoor location innovation is vital for future socket wins." (c) 2013 Global Data Point. All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company

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