The Polte Location API, leveraging ubiquitous cellular infrastructure, better prepares businesses for what’s next in digital transformation.
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The Polte Location API, leveraging ubiquitous cellular infrastructure, better prepares businesses for what’s next in digital transformation.
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Location Coverage |
Outdoors (suburban/rural) | Indoors (urban/suburban) | Indoors | Outdoors, Indoors (urban/suburban/rural) |
Power |
Satellite sync; Long time to first fix |
Constant AP scanning | Constant beacon interaction | Wake on-demand location queries extends battery life |
Implementation |
Radio, antenna, more battery | Radio, antenna, more battery, cloud | Radio, beacons, more battery | Software-only, cloud |
Security & Privacy |
Easily spoofed | Easily hacked | Easily hacked | Location not calculated on device itself; Secure from chip to cloud |
Polte Location API accuracy is competitive with alternate location technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi indoors. However, the innovation of Polte is the ability to take that coverage and extend it outdoors and across geographies – without GPS/GNSS. By leveraging existing global 4G & 5G cellular networks and cloud computing, there’s no need to build and maintain separate infrastructure. Polte simply deploys over-the-top of existing cellular networks, using a single radio and offloading computational complexity from the device to the cloud. This, in turn, leaves your information more secure than with devices using competing technology that may perform the bulk of calculations on the device itself.
With more security, smaller size, lower cost and longer battery life, Polte democratizes location while addressing the downfalls of competing technologies for all the world’s things.
With the team’s more than a decade of experience perfecting super resolution algorithms and securing global patents, Polte serves Industry 4.0, supply chain visibility and a wide range of other initiatives with greater location insights for far less the investment.
How does Polte’s technology work? Click here to read more.