Company Overview
Skyhook was founded in 2003 to capitalize on the increasing demand for location-based services (LBS). The first location solutions such as GPS and cell tower triangulation were inadequate - leaving frustrated mobile consumers with inaccurate position information, sporadic coverage and slow time-to-fix. In response, Skyhook developed WPS - the first Wi-Fi positioning system. Taking advantage of the tens of millions of Wi-Fi access points that exist in all major cities, WPS consistently provides accurate location information indoors and in dense urban areas.
In 2008, Skyhook launched version 2.0 of XPS, the world's first true hybrid positioning system. Recognizing and leveraging the relative strengths of each underlying location technology (WPS, GPS, cellular tower triangulation), XPS is the fastest, most accurate, most reliable and most flexible location system on the market today. As a software-only implementation, XPS doesn't require additional specialized hardware embedded on the device or installed at the cellular base-station.
XPS is positioned to exploit the rapid adoption of Wi-Fi and GPS enabled mobile devices. Hundreds of millions of mobile Wi-Fi devices are already on the market and more are rolled out every day - such as dual-mode phones, personal navigation devices, portable media players, and gaming devices. Three hundred million Wi-Fi chipsets shipped in 2007 alone and this number is projected to explode to one billion by 2012. At the same time, the number of GPS enabled handsets is expected to reach 550 million by 2012. Skyhook's XPS technology can quickly deliver accurate and reliable positioning data to each of these devices.