Emerging new NFC opportunities for MNOs

27/10/2011

Positium welcomes the revolution of NFC technology and looks into location-based authentication opportunities within this emerging market.

Emerging new NFC opportunities for telecoms – as the worldwide telecommunication industry rapidly comes closer to the tipping point of unstoppable commoditization of its current core business – voice and SMS – the leaders of innovation are looking into new ways to boost value and bring telecom once again to the forefront of the hottest industries.

Japan looking into mobile spatial statistics

13/10/2011

Japan seeks unheard-of new uses for cell location data

Japanese operator NTT Docomo plans to use its store of location data to work out where to build more houses, and how many people get stuck during an earthquake.

Those are two just of the potential applications for the huge amount of location data stored by mobile network operators, and where Docomo and the University of Tokyo will be starting their Mobile Spatial Statistics project with a view to finding other ways of exploiting the (anonymous) data for fun and profit.

Another link to related news article.

Value of anonymous real-time tracking during natural disasters, Haiti use case

13/10/2011

A new study (Improved Response to Disasters and Outbreaks by Tracking Population Movements with Mobile Phone Network Data: A Post-Earthquake Geospatial Study in Haiti) uses the movements of mobile phones during the Haiti earthquake, and cholera epidemic, to accurately show where people went during the disasters, and where help should be delivered.

Studying location data stored by Haiti’s biggest network operator, Digicel, Swedish boffins got more accurate estimates of population movements over the period of both earthquake and epidemic than rescue workers on the ground, demonstrating the value of anonymous real-time tracking during national disasters.

Original The Register article.

Positium welcomes new emerging technologies in MNO billing systems

13/10/2011

Telecom ‘cloud billing’ market ready to soar

Positium welcomes the new emerging technologies in mobile network operator billing systems. We are very fascinated about the new hybrid cloud solutions which would bring the anonymous mass location data availability & usability to the next level.

Alcatel Lucent – The network makes the cloud

Positium participated in making of Journal of Urban Technology scientific magazine

16/02/2011

In 2010 November published ISI WoS level scientific magazine Journal of Urban Technology (Taylor ja Francis Group) special issue on mobile positioning usage in geographic studies: Mobile Positioning and Tracking in Geography and Planning.

Positium participated along with Tartu University geography faculty on article publication and discussions.

From the Guest Editor: Mobile Positioning and Tracking in Geography and Planning

Rein Ahas

Using Mobile Positioning Data to Model Locations Meaningful to Users of Mobile Phones
Rein Ahas; Siiri Silm; Olle Järv; Erki Saluveer; Margus Tiru

The Positium Barometer: A Web-Based Tool for Monitoring the Mobility of Tourists
Margus Tiru; Erki Saluveer; Rein Ahas; Anto Aasa

Positium helps organize Mobile Tartu 2010

24/08/2010

Mobile Tartu 2010 is a central conference for researchers in the field of mobile positioning, crowd sensing and developing research LBS applications. Conference takes place every second year, this time researchers from 14 different countries, among them MIT, EHT, Peking University, attend with variety of keynote speakers, topics and practical experiments. Positium LBS joins hands with Dept. of Geography of University of Tartu. The event is sponsored by EITSA. Welcome to Tartu!