Skyhook Wireless

• Private
• US

Dow Jones Description

Skyhook was founded in 2003 with the vision that as individuals and their devices become more and more mobile, precise location positioning would become increasingly important. Users, service providers, device manufacturers, and operators all require accurate positioning technology in order to deliver reliable Location Based Services. However, existing technologies like GPS and cell tower triangulation fail to provide positioning of sufficient quality to make LBS useful and mainstream. These technologies lack accuracy, speed and reliability in urban areas and indoors. With that vision and knowledge, Skyhook pioneered the development of the first ever metro-area positioning system to leverage Wi-Fi access points rather than satellites or cell towers to deliver precise geographic location. The Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) requires no new hardware, works indoors and outdoors, provides location instantly, and is more accurate than current technologies indoors and in metropolitan areas. There are currently hundreds of millions of Wi-Fi devices on the market. Every day, more and more new Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices are rolled out dual mode phones, portable media players, navigation devices, game players, RFID tags and others. Industry analysts like ABI Research have projected that there will be 1 billion of these devices in use by 2008. Skyhook's technology can deliver accurate, reliable and efficient positioning to every single one of them.

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