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High Accuracy Indoor Location Tracking?

Posted by Cliff on from the where-did-it-go dept.

aletterman asks: "I am looking for technology that can allow my company to track the position of a fork lift as it moves around a warehouse. This would allow us to factor out one problem situation - where the lift was when the driver dropped off the product. Based on the width of our warehouse locations, we need a resolution of about +-1ft. Standard GPS can't get that accurate or work well indoors. The fork lifts already have a VT220 terminal running 802.11b, so adding another device would not be difficult. I am currently looking at a product that can triangulate via the RSSI of the 802.11b network, but I am concerned the changes in the product mix and density of the corrugated boxes will change the RSSI and introduce a mis-positioning of the locations. I would prefer that the device transmit a position either serially or via our 802.11b network. Our warehouses are fairly large (300,000+ sqft) and have a large of amount of corrugated boxes. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!"

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  1. Re:dead reckoning by Glonoinha · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that anything like one guy shouting out 'Marco' and the fork lift driver shouting 'Polo!' ?

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  2. Let me know how this works out. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny

    I STILL can't find my car keys.

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  3. Re:dead reckoning by digitalchinky · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.nsd.es.northropgrumman.com/Html/LTN-92/ index.htm

    A slightly more expensive solution. I have little idea how accurate it is from the few specs listed, but... Pretty lights... That's got to be important right?

  4. If you find one... by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me know. I was looking for something similar for a cat locator project I was working on. This would plug into the cat locator portion of my website. My requirements are a little different since the locator module would have to be small enough to put around a cats neck.

    So far, I have yet to see a solution presented in the comments that would work for my situation.

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  5. you already bought a solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This would allow us to factor out one problem situation - where the lift was when the driver dropped off the product.

    Why not ask the driver?