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indoo.rs is a B2B startup company based in Austria that provides indoor positioning and navigation utilizing iBeacons and/or WiFi connections to locate a Bluetooth receiver in an indoor environment.

The technology is implemented through a software development kit (SDK) and is integrated into mobile application. The technology uses sensor fusion, SLAM, Adaptive Kalman filter and PDR. The navigation is also available off-line through the use of the sensors on a mobile device.

History
indoo.rs was founded in 2010 as CustomLBS by Bernd Gruber and Markus Krainz. The company has headquarters and a development office in Vienna and a sales office in San Francisco. The original product was developed based on WiFi and later in 2013 changed to use BLE with a focus on the iBeacon protocol. In 2014 indoo.rs joined STIR.

In 2016, indoo.rs installed over 300 iBeacons at San Francisco International Airport for a project to help visually impaired passengers find their way through the airport’s terminals using a prototype smartphone app. The app comes with a preloaded map of the terminal and uses data from a traveller’s smartphone along with information from nearby beacons and phone signals to triangulate location.

Indoo.rs was the Winner of World Summit Award Austria 2017, Winner of Smart City App Hack 2015, Winner of Born Global Champion 2015, Winner of Mercur Award 2013, Winner of Jungunternehmer Award 2012, and Winner of Mobile Monday Austria Demo Night 2010.