WiFi Indoor Positioning is an emerging technology that will enable accurate positioning of a mobile device inside buildings.

WiFi Indoor Positioning is based on IEEE 802.11mc WiFi protocol.

It is based on fine-time-measurement of RTT (round time trip) of signals in WiFi bands.

It is one of the major new features in Android 9 Pie.

Compulab, an Intel IoT Solution partner, is offering:

• Ready-to-deploy IoT gateways with Indoor WiFi Location capabilities (FTM responders)
• Ready-to-use WiFi Indoor Positioning development kits including FTM responders and FTM client devices

FTM responder is based on Compulab fitlet2 powered by Intel® Apollo Lake E3900 and Intel® Dual Band Wireless AC8260.

Compulab FTM responders are fully compatible with Android 9 Pie and are proven to work with Android devices supporting WiFi RTT API.

Sample Android application for WiFi RTT ranging is available on GitHub