Overview

As leading device manufacturers and dominant internet players continue to offer mobile services and applications, consumers will become increasingly concerned about the privacy and reliability of location-based services.

Using XPS, wireless operators are able to take ownership of their subscriber's location information.

Carriers will be in control over the customer relationship ensuring privacy, reliability, accuracy and availability of the underlying location technology.

Increase ARPU

Providing location information more quickly, accurately and reliably will increase adoption and uptake of existing services. An improved location system will also propel location-based services beyond personal navigation.

  • Enable applications that require quick, consistent and accurate location
  • Drive data usage
  • Increase ARPU

Learn more about innovative new consumer applications empowered with Skyhook.

Why Skyhook is better

The commercial potential of innovative location-based services for consumers is being stifled by inherent limitations in GPS, A-GPS and cellular tower triangulation.

  • Cell tower triangulation is not accurate (accuracy ranges between 200m and 1000m)
  • GPS has startup (time-to-fix) times of up to 2 minutes
  • Both GPS and A-GPS don't work effectively indoors

Version 2.0 of XPS, from Skyhook Wireless, is the first true hybrid positioning system. Combining the relative strengths of GPS, cellular tower triangulation and Skyhook's proprietary Wi-Fi Positioning Sytem (WPS). XPS 2.0 uses raw location data from these sources and employs advanced hybrid positioning algorithms to quickly arrive at an accurate location estimate in all environments.