Positioning Suite APIs
IoT Location Platform (ILP) provides positioning, assistance, and other services optimized specifically for IoT applications supporting a wide variety of devices and application architectures. Developed specifically to support the needs of low-energy devices and multi-network communications, the ILP Solution delivers telco-grade performance in an over-the-top (OTT) architecture. The ILP solution offers precise, seamless indoor/outdoor location determination across a wide variety of devices and applications.
Positioning Calculation and Assistance Data
These positioning capabilities leverage real-time enhanced content to allow devices to determine their current location built upon Comtech’s state-of-the-art Hybrid Positioning Engine (HPE), the ILP Solution can simultaneously process measurement data from GPS, cellular, WiFi, and other sources to deliver the most accurate position estimate possible.
Assistance data is available for enhancing device-based location calculation both indoors and outdoors. The ILP Solution supports the following location technologies:
| Technology | Description | Scenario |
|---|---|---|
Assisted GPS and GLONASS (AGNSS) |
Satellite-based - positioning and assistance |
Outdoor, global coverage |
2G, 3G, and 4G Cell ID and Enhanced-Cell ID |
Cellular-based - TDOA/RSS |
Anywhere, near global coverage |
WiFi/BLE |
Network-based - RSS/RTT |
Indoor, urban/suburban |
Indoor WiFi (High-Resolution) |
Surveyed solutions |
Deep indoor with Solid WiFi coverage |
Unlike traditional location services, ILP-based services have both highly efficient binary and easy to integrate JSON message formats for integration flexibility. ILP currently provides two APIS and a device SDK:
Calculate Position provides hybrid positioning calculation services.
Assistance Data provides device-based positioning assistance data services.
ILP Software Development Kit, a Git Repository containing user documentation, tools, and libraries accelerating embedded development supporting multiple devices and platforms.