To support location-awareness independent of satellite navigation nanotron has created the swarm bee family of wireless modules. Modules are available with Chirp or UWB radio technology. All of them are sharing the common swarm API. The swarm product family targets the growing market for autonomous smart items and cuts time to market for location-aware products by 12 months. With swarm bee developers focus on application design. The talk describes the basic swarm bee module configuration and explains use cases and business applications.

Dr. Thomas Foerste, VP Marketing & Sales nanotron Technologies GmbH, Berlin (Germany) joined nanotron in 2008 from LSI. Previously senior sales and marketing positions with LSI, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems. Ph.D. in Semiconductor Devices from Technical University Dresden, Germany.

TraceWave has developed a new technology for indoor location without any infrastructure. Our radio nodes measure distance and direction between them. This works both indoors and outdoors, with only two nodes but also with multiple nodes.  This is a completely new concept, called relative location. If there are more than two nodes, they will work together and create a mesh network. If one or more nodes is fixed and has known coordinates than all nodes can deduce their own coordinates, this is called absolute location. If one or more nodes has GPS coordinates, all nodes can deduce their own GPS coordinates from that, even when they are inside a building. This is called geo-location. So, our technology can provide indoor-GPS functionality. The core of our radio nodes is a low-power 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz radio transceiver. Our radio signals are different from WiFi or Bluetooth, because they specifically designed for distance and direction measurement. The radio easily can be implemented as an integrated circuit and will fit in e.g. a watch, bracelet, ID badge or tag. We currently are finalizing our prototype, an FPGA-based software defined radio.

Corné van Puijenbroek is a serial entrepreneur and has 30 years of experience in high-tech wireless development. After working at NXP, Ericsson (DECT) and Lucent/AT&T (WiFi) he was CTO of Adcon in Austria, (ZigBee). In 2005 was co- founder and CTO of GreenPeak, a ZigBee company, acquired in 2016 by Qorvo. Corné also was CTO and VP at several startups, in the area of LTE, solar and low- power wireless. He is (co )author of 13 patents. Corné is co-founder and CEO of TraceWave GmbH.

Location awareness is definitely one of the killer features of smartphones and it is a driver for innovation for many years now. And still building a high quality location based app is one of the most challenging tasks. This talk shares experiences in how to build a location-based mobile app fulfilling extraordinary demands in accuracy, reliability and power consumption at the same time. It will cover obstacles solved during 3 years of developing Familonet’s next-generation hyper accurate geofencing technology including some specifics of the location APIs of iOS and Android. In addition this talk will give an outlook for use-cases of location services and geofencing in particular.

David Nellessen is co-founder and CTO of Familonet, a Hamburg-based start-up which has developed a mobile app for secure communication within families. Born and grown up in Münster, he studied mathematics at Freiburg University, focusing on Quaternionic-Kähler Geometry. At that time, he ran an agency for web development. After graduating with a diploma degree in mathematics and economics, he looked for new business models for product development and, together with Hauke Windmüller and Michael Asshauer, co-founded Familonet, a start-up that now has over a million users worldwide.

Tracking Solutions consist of many different ingredients: low-cost and
power-efficient tracking hardware, accurate outdoor and indoor
positioning technology, secure device and account management as well
as advanced geo-visualization and analytics tools. I’ll present
concrete end-to-end tracking implementations based on HERE’s
geo-services and talk about our learnings so far.

Hannes Kruppa manages the software and hardware R&D team at HERE which
brings HERE’s geo-location services to the Internet of Things. He
holds a PhD in Computer Science and has previously conducted research
at ETH Zurich, IBM and Carnegie-Mellon.

The economy of the 21th century is heavily relying on goods and people travelling around the globe in less than a day. For seamless processing, accuracy of tracking is as important as punctuality. But there is even more then just logistics. The second GeoMonday 2016 will cover the entire range of tracking, starting from the infrastructure of sensors and beacons to the solution business which helps applying business intelligence for any transportation vehicle.

Get your tickets for the 2nd GeoMonday 2016 now!

Date: 20th of June 2016
Time: 7 pm
Place: MobileSuite – Pappelallee 78/79 – 10437 Berlin – Germany

A big thank you again to all the speakers and also to the audience. It was a great start into 2016 as another year full of interesting Geo-Topics.

For everyone who could not be there or would like to recall some information, we will publish the slideshows and the video very soon.

We are looking forward to seeing you on the next GeoMonday, the 20th of June. Keep checking this blog for updates.