*Swell idea if you're into locativity and registration. Very spimey, too. Now I'm trying to imagine a bunch of eager guys forming a Bluetooth consortium with Nokia, given the condition Nokia is in. Capitalism is so turbulent now that this is like forming a consortium to buy up Greek debt.
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4230993/Nokia-tweaks-Bluetooth-for-indoor-navigation
Nokia tweaks Bluetooth for indoor navigation
Rick Merritt
11/29/2011 6:08 PM EST
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Nokia Research is courting partners and expanding Bluetooth as part of an initiative on indoor location-based services. The company aims to leverage its handset and mapping products to enable a wide range of services including indoor navigation and retail analytics.
"We want to take what's been done in navigation outdoors and bring it inside," said Fabio Belloni, a principal researcher in Nokia's radio systems lab that looks for new ways to use networks.
Nokia has two pilots using a new Bluetooth protocol in the works and has reached out to as many as 30 companies in an effort to set broader standards that ultimately may include Wi-Fi and other networks.
The company is leading work on a new Location Extension protocol to ride on top of Bluetooth 4.0. It could be issued as a standard by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group in about 18 months.
Nokia designed a prototype based on a room outfitted with Bluetooth Low Energy antenna arrays that track devices with Bluetooth tags. The prototype uses triangulation to create 3-D maps of a room....
