Positioning

The basics: Indoor and Outdoor positioning
Indoor and/or outdoor positioning is probably the most basic, and at the same time the most important functionality you want to achieve with Situm.  The...
Sat, 6 Feb, 2021 at 6:51 PM
Indoor Geolocation Modes
Situm is able to provide Indoor Positions within any building where Situm technology has been configured. Situm provides three methods (mutually exclusive) ...
Sat, 20 Mar, 2021 at 2:10 PM
Building vs Global Mode
Situm SDK allows you to choose between two positioning modes: Building and Global Mode. Choosing one or the other is pretty simple: you may do it by using t...
Fri, 26 Mar, 2021 at 9:35 AM
Outdoor Positioning (Global Mode only)
Situm is able to provide Indoor & Outdoor Positioning. How Situm SDK handles Indoor Positioning has been explained in detail in previous sections. In th...
Tue, 9 Mar, 2021 at 8:31 PM
Indoor Positioning Sensor Management
As explained in this article, in order to compute the most accurate geolocation, Situm can use many of the sensor information that modern smartphones provid...
Wed, 10 Feb, 2021 at 7:14 PM
Location Updates Configuration
By default, Situm SDK computes one geolocation estimate per second and uploads it to the Situm cloud. This means that: The mobile app will be able to show...
Fri, 12 Feb, 2021 at 9:00 AM
Battery Efficiency
Situm is highly optimized to consume as less battery as possible: an app with Situm's default configuration may run for  for 9-12 hours before running o...
Tue, 18 May, 2021 at 12:16 PM
Location Cache: Quick positioning re-start
In wayfinding applications you may not want to keep your application positioning all the time. Imagine this situation:  the user opens the map and you start...
Sat, 10 Apr, 2021 at 2:05 PM
How to use the floor change improvement with the device barometer
Description    Within our plan of continuous improvement of Situm IPS we have introduced in our SDKs and in our Apps, an improvement in the floor changes t...
Fri, 19 Feb, 2021 at 6:15 PM