Forget GPS, Hello WPS

No France writes "A company known as skyhook wireless has announced the commercial availability of its Wi-Fi Positioning System, or WPS. The company has compiled a database of every wireless access point it can find in a given city. When a mobile user running th Skyhook client is in a recorded area, their position is calculated by selecting the surrounding signals and comparing them to the reference database. Currently there are 25 US cities mapped, including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Apparently this device is accurate to within 20-40 meters, though one has to wonder how well it deals with people moving their wireless access points."

Comments

What about in your house?

[gremlins]

Could you do something like this in your house? I know this sounds a bit crazy but I am trying to figure something out so I figure out where my roomba is inside my house. That way I could send it to rooms that get more traffic. This would require more hacks for Roomba but I got a good idea how to do that what I need is a way to figure out where Roomba is in my house.