BARCELONA—Indoor positioning companies exhibited at the Mobile World Congress here to educate retailers, government agencies, transportation companies and others about the benefits of locating and tracking customers, assets and goods.
At MWC, Finland-based Quuppa rolled out a Bluetooth Low Energy...
BARCELONA—Canada-based Geotab is grabbing a huge chunk of the worldwide fleet tracking market, saying they have reached 1 million subscribers--and signing a deal with AT&T.
Geotab, which started out 15 years ago as a family-run business with a GPS-based telematics...
BARCELONA—As telecommunications companies move to 5G, such companies as New York-based CARTO will be able to give executives location information to optimize their business processes.
“As they add 5G networks, and how they plan to deploy them, the insights around...
BARCELONA--Harman announced at the Mobile World Congress that it will build and deliver products based on the Samsung ARTIK Smart IoT platform.
Samsung will provide ARTIK-based System-on-Modules (SoMs) and software that run on Harman IoT gateways for both enterprise and...
LAS VEGAS—While connected and autonomous vehicles seemed to be the rage at this year’s CES, a growing number of location companies exhibited new products.
Not all of the technology, much of it exhibited in IoT sections at the Westgate and...
LAS VEGAS—While autonomous vehicles seem to get most of the media attention these days, the foundation technologies that connect vehicles will continue to grow in 2018.
In a market overview presentation at the recent Consumer Telematics Show, Roger Lanctot,...
GPS World Magazine
Mercedes autonomous car on display at Mobile World Congress 2016. (Photo: Kevin Dennehy)
BARCELONA, Spain — Most attendees at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) wouldn’t mistake the huge mobile phone show to be a gathering of auto manufacturers...
Barcelona’s Fira center hosted Mobile World Congress, a gathering of 105,000 industry participants.
By Kevin Dennehy
Contributing Editor for LBS
GPS World Magazine
The big takeaway from this year’s Mobile World Congress was the interest in location data from a growing number...