BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$250.5K
- 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.
Number of Employees 2
Contact Information
34 Farnsworth St Fl 4
Boston, Massachusetts 02210
1 617 314 9802
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Offices of Lawyers: 541110
Recent Events
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Rummble chooses Skyhook Wireless for location information
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Rummble Integrates Skyhook Wireless for Location Information
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Skyhook Wireless Releases Maps Booster for Ovi
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Skyhook Wireless Powers Location on Sherpa App Available in Android Market„
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Loc-Aid, Skyhook Try To Make Location-Based Information Easier To Find
This week Boca Raton, Fla.-based Loc-Aid is lifting the cover off of a two-year project that aims to aggregate location-based data from carriers and resell it to developers. Isaias Sudit, Loc-Aid's CEO said by being the middleman, developers will be able to add location-based services more easily to their...
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