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Side-by-side with Google indoor maps

Home Depot, Natick, MA

We stopped by Home Depot to compare our indoor positioning technology with Google’s service on Google Maps for Android.  We came away with some great results and would highlight the following advantages for Lighthouse:

- High accuracy of <5 meters (versus ~20 meters for Google)
- Rapid set-up: this location was added to our network by a single member of our ops team in less than 3 hours

We recently visited Vallco Cupertino in Cupertino, CA, to compare our Lighthouse Signal Systems technology with the location capabilities on Google indoor maps. The comparison ended up being a big success. The video below is admittedly shot in an indie format that’s more “Blair Witch” than “Star Wars” but a few highlights about our advantages jump out:

• Able to differentiate floors consistently
• High accuracy of 5-7 meters (versus 55 meters for Google)

A single member of our ops team added this mall to our network in less than half a day. This rapid scalability is a critical feature of our technology and a major point of differentiation versus existing approaches to indoor location that often require teams of expensive engineers working for several days or even installing equipment throughout a venue.

Copley Place demo

This video from Copley Place in Boston, MA, is less choppy than what we did in Cupertino. It demonstrates our ability to differentiate floors and to provide micro-location within stores in addition to the major hallways and open spaces in a mall. By contract, traditional location technologies and recent indoor solutions typically fail to provide accurate location inside of stores and have difficulty differentiating between floors. As was the case in Cupertino, a single member of our ops team added this mall to our network in less than half a day