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Crownstone Indoor Positioning System

Easily add indoor localization to your app or product

Crownstone’s Indoor Positioning System (IPS) is a highly accurate and reliable indoor positioning system that can easily be integrated into your app or work independently via the Crownstone app.

The Crownstone IPS lets you easily find and locate people or objects indoors.

Crownstone Indoor positioning system (IPS) for indoor localization of objects and people

Add Indoor positioning to your product

Do you have a product or service that requires accurate indoor positioning information?

Get in touch with us to see how the Crownstone IPS helps you find and locate people or objects indoors.

How does the Crownstone IPS work

The Crownstone IPS consists of different components with built-in modularity, which allows customization and easy installation without IT support.

The components of the Crownstone IPS are:

  1. The Crownstone Mesh network
  2. Tracking devices
  3. External connectivity: SDK
Components of the Crownstone Indoor positioning system using a mesh network and detection devices

Crownstone Mesh

The Crownstone Mesh is the core of the Crownstone IPS. We create the mesh using a combination of hardware and software.

Hardware: Crownstone built-ins

Crownstones are Bluetooth devices that are attached directly to a power socket behind the wall.

The benefits are:

  • The Crownstone is out of sight
  • The Crownstone is powered by electricity and doesn’t require batteries
  • The Crownstone can also measure energy usage on a device level
Crownstone bluetooth built-in mesh network

Mesh firmware

The firmware on the Crownstones is designed to manage communication, ensuring seamless interaction within the Crownstone mesh network.

Secondly, it facilitates the transmission of signals and data from Crownstones to a communication hub.

Bluetooth Mesh Network firmware

Communication hub

The communication hub is our main communications tool to for example 3rd party apps, or even other sensors in the building, e.g. fire detectors.

 

 

Communication hub for Bluetooth Mesh Network

Detection devices

There are multiple ways a person or object can be detected in the mesh network.

The most common are:

  1. Smartphone with the Crownstone app installed on it
  2. Smartphone with your app installed on it that uses the Crownstone IPS SDK
  3. Tags or beacons
Because the Crownstone IPS is flexible we can always discuss other options for detection if needed.
Detection devices for indoor positioning systems like smartphones with localization apps and bluetooth beacons
SDK for connecting apps to indoor positioning systems and bluetooth mesh network

SDK

The Crownstone SDK allows your app to be easily connected to Crownstone IPS.

Information from the communication hub, e.g. localization data, presence, etc, can be communicated directly into your app.

Benefits

Highly accurate and reliable indoor localization

Real-time location system

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Easy integration with existing systems

No maintenance required

No batteries required

Scalability to fit your growing business

Out-of-sight: aesthetically pleasing and tamper-free

SDK is available to integrate indoor positioning into your app easily

Add Indoor positioning to your product

Do you have a product or service that requires accurate indoor positioning information?

Get in touch with us to see how the Crownstone IPS helps you find and locate people or objects indoors.