GEOLOCATION ENGINE

The optimal position of your assets and people, indoors and out

One engine, every positioning technology

The Location Engine is a multi-technology solver that computes and exposes the best location information possible by combining the data transmitted by your trackers. Abeeway trackers leverage GPS, Low Power-GPS (LP-GPS), Wi-Fi sniffing, LoRaWAN® and BLE radios – the engine merges these signals at the edge of the LPWA network to deliver a seamless outdoor and indoor position, at the lowest energy consumption possible.

The engine also exposes a set of APIs to interact with the trackers, for example to request a position or change a configuration.

How it fits together

What the engine gives you

Sharper GNSS positions

The engine post-processes raw GNSS data to correct errors a tracker cannot see on its own, returning a more accurate position than the device reports alone.

Longer battery life with LP-GPS

Low Power-GPS delivers a position at a fraction of the energy a full GNSS fix costs, extending the time your trackers stay in the field between charges.

Seamless indoor and outdoor

One continuous position stream wherever the asset is. The engine switches between technologies as the environment changes, with no gap when an asset moves inside.

Wi-Fi positioning, pre-integrated

Wi-Fi sniffing resolves to a position out of the box: the engine arrives already connected to hotspot databases, so there is no reference data for you to source or maintain.

BLE positioning on your own tags

Where you deploy BLE tags, the engine computes position from the tags your trackers can see, using your own tag layout to reach room-level accuracy indoors.

Built to integrate with your application

The purpose of the geolocation engine is to let third-party IoT applications unlock the value of LPWAN geolocation. We provide you with all the improved and consolidated data through our API or using HTTP push, and you make the most of that data with your own know-how.

Using the Location API is the best option in most cases, because you benefit from:

  • An optimal position – we combine every positioning technology available (GPS, LP-GPS, Wi-Fi, BLE) with our post-processing algorithm to deliver the most accurate and reliable position.
  • Device capabilities – whenever the device has a new feature, you will benefit from it as soon as you upgrade the firmware. No deep backend work required.
  • Value-added geolocation services – features such as low power position harvesting are delivered seamlessly with no additional backend work.

Interfacing directly with the Network Server can suit specific cases, for example an isolated application that cannot connect to our SaaS service.

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