Indoor Location: technologies, applications, drivers, challenges, services, major vendors and more.

We are still at the early stage when it comes to Indoor Location as a market size; market opportunities; maturity of technologies, services, solutions and more. 

Connectikpeople.co defines location technologies as systems built around the Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies, with the main difference of their utility in navigating indoor spaces, such as malls, megastores, offices, airports, casinos, amongst others.

The adoption of this technology is relatively slow due to a set of indoor environment challenges and performance requirements.

Research and Markets segments the global indoor location market by type of solution: tag-based, rf-based, sensor-based and others; by type of application: indoor maps and navigation, indoor location-based analytics, tracking & tracing, monitoring & emergency management; by type of service: consulting, managed services, system integration and others; by type of verticals: academia & education, BFSI, government, public safety & urban security, healthcare, retail, media & advertising, manufacturing, distribution & logistics, oil, gas & mining and tourism & hospitality; by regions: North America (NA), Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe(EU), Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Latin America(LA). 

Major vendors of indoor location include: Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft, Broadcom, and Cisco.