Saturday, September 04, 2010

The Wireless Network Geolocation Platform (WINGP) by Comtest Wireless International is a reliable solution that provides customer the ability to estimate the position of a wireless network user or event.

Comtest Wireless International has a strong background of knowledge in the telecommunications technologies, with 10 years experience of cutting-edge position in design, implementation and delivery of planning, optimization and maintenance of wireless networks. Such unique experience has given the company the knowledge and the capacity to design and deliver a next-generation solution for user geo-positioning.

The Technology

Best Location Engine: Competing solution locate users by fingerprinting a unique set of values based on measurements of neighboring cell signal strengths, time delays and other network parameters. WINGP dramatically improves this approach by mean of a sophisticate mathematical algorithm which computes input parameters and provides the predicted position with a typical accuracy of few tenths of meters in urban areas.

Radio Environment Fingerprinting Engine: what is fingerprinted in WINGP is the radio environment and the local evaluation parameters used to tune the prediction algorithm. This is another key feature which contributes to increase accuracy. This is particularly true in the indoor positioning, where predictions are heavily affected by signal attenuation.

Self Tuning Engine: WINGP is the only solution that can enhance its performances by mean of an automatic self-tuning engine. This mean that although native accuracy is very high it is possible to further improve positioning accuracy in sensible areas where highest precision is required.

Benefits

The WINGP can estimate the position of an handset by using network information only, without the need of expensive and intrusive device installation in tower masts.

The solution therefore provides:

  • High accuracy in dense-urban areas
  • No intrusive device installation in operator's towers
  • No need to install any software appliance in customer's handsets
  • Technology flexibility to adapt to new standards or added parameters
  • Tunable prediction algorithm can improve prediction with automatic training
  • Stealth customer positioning when handset in idle-mode

All these key values and many more make the solution ahead of the market in terms of performances, flexibility and cost-benefit balance. 

Features

GNP is a stable proven solution that provides a rich set of features for example:

  • Real-time user positioning
  • Historical user position backlog
  • Automatic configurable alerts for hot spots (geo-fencing) with exclusion lists
  • List of all user accessing the same area within a given timeframe (geographical filters)
  • Extended filtering options
  • Position of called/caller party
  • Auto-tune toolbox to improve system accuracy

WGNP relies on two products connected on a star hierarchy:

WLS: Wireless Location Server, manages network traffic and performs computational-heavy calculations to position mobiles in real-time.

WLOC: Wireless Location Operation Center, collect, stores and analyze location information collected by WLSes.

Multi-technology

The WINGP offers position estimation for the all the most common wireless networks:

  • GSM
  • CDMA
  • UMTS

The engine can be easily expanded to work with other technologies as:

  • LTE
  • WiMAX

This process is general enough to be applicable to each set of input parameters of different network technologies. So the WINGP can be easily extended to use new parameters or to work with different technologies.