A Sneak Peek of the NavIndo Product and the Team Behind it | AZO – Space of Innovation
Summary
The problem that they address has been emerged from the fact that any type of signal emitted from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) (e.g. Galileo, GPS, GLONASS) cannot penetrate through solid objects such as walls, which makes localisation indoors impossible. This is where NavIndo takes over with human kinetic models, state of the art machine learning and novel sensor fusion. The idea emerged from Georgios Pipelidis who is currently researching methods and technologies that can enable the crowdsourced generation of indoor maps in his PhD thesis. A few months later, they participated and won the second place in the Mobility Competition, organised by the Bavarian Center of Digitalization, winning a monetary prize of EUR 12,500. Furthermore, NavIndo has protected core components of their technology through a series of EU and US patents, while they’re working in a number of pilot projects with global leaders such as NOKIA as well as large scale Munich based companies such as MVG.