{"id":222,"date":"2011-12-22T19:16:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T03:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-12-22T19:21:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T03:21:36","slug":"for-last-minute-holiday-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2011\/12\/22\/for-last-minute-holiday-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"For last-minute holiday shoppers&#8230; (From New Scientist)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21228425.200-brave-the-mall-maze-with-indoor-positioning-systems.html\">this article<\/a> by Paul Marks while browsing New Scientist a few days ago.\u00a0 IKEA is one of several store chains using the Indoor Positioning System (IPS) component of Google Maps to help their shoppers navigate.\u00a0 Marks also discusses some other IPS systems:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenokiablog.com\/2011\/11\/29\/nokia-research-indoor-mapping\/\">Nokia&#8217;s version of IPS<\/a>,  not yet available to consumers, aims for even greater precision. The  firm litters buildings of interest with Bluetooth-based radio beacons  that switch phones running mapping apps based on GPS to using Bluetooth  4.0 signals once they walk indoors. Because the beacons are at fixed  sites and have a short range, they can work out your position to within  30 centimetres &#8211; enough to &#8220;bookmark&#8221; a jacket in a shop window and  browse back to it later.&#8221; [Link in original]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Will this change the way people relate to, and interact with, their surroundings more than GPS and existing applications such as foursquare already have?\u00a0 Tell us what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re going to IKEA, could you pick up some meatballs for us?\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article by Paul Marks while browsing New Scientist a few days ago.\u00a0 IKEA is one of several store chains using the Indoor Positioning System (IPS) component of Google Maps to help their shoppers navigate.\u00a0 Marks also discusses some other IPS systems: &#8220;Nokia&#8217;s version of IPS, not yet available to consumers, aims for&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2011\/12\/22\/for-last-minute-holiday-shoppers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[622,99441,140,95499],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gps","tag-ikea","tag-ips","tag-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}