Smart Indoor and Outdoor Geographic Information System
Overview
Seamless indoor and outdoor geographic information system accommodating indoor positioning and massive telemetry data.
Technical name of innovation
Smart Indoor and Outdoor Geographic Information System
Research completion
14/08/2018
Commercialisation opportunities
IP licensing; Technology co-development
Problem addressed
Lack of highly scalable and cost effective indoor and outdoor map service for HK industry. Typical mapping tools are weak at indoor capability and are not optimized for users’ requirements. Massive real time telemetry spatial IoT data is not visualized geographically over a scalable system. BLE device management is insecure, costly and power consuming in large area.
Innovation
- Map Server is used to manage telemetry spatial IoT data and serves image map request for interactive map application.
- Distributed cache is used to improve overall cache hit rate and offload large amount of data traffic from the centralized Map Server
- Route server combines corridors across multiple buildings and outdoor pedestrian paths to provide shortest navigation route
- Smart positioning algorithm design can help the user to navigate between different locations (both indoor and outdoor)
- BLE Broadcast Network is used for large scale BLE device deployment in a secure, cost effective, and power efficient manner
Key impact
- Enhance the operating performance of map service
- Connect massive telemetry spatial data with a scalable GIS
- Enhance the pedestrian navigation experience
- Protect broadcasted data from unauthorized access
Application
- Indoor location/navigation application
- BLE IoT data collection
- BLE device management
- Smart city application
Patent
- US Patent No. 10,039,057; CN Patent No. ZL201780000656.5 and HK Patent No. HK18106248.7
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under four Technology Divisions: Trust and AI Technologies; Communications Technologies; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies and Integrated Circuits and Systems. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, New-Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.
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