Turning your Wi-Fi network into an AI-native location platform
GPS can tell you which building you’re in. It has no idea which floor, hallway or room — nor where equipment sits or how people move about — because satellites can’t see past a roofline. Indoor spaces have effectively been off the map, and those dead zones are where a lot of hybrid work strategies, digital transformation budgets and AI ambitions stall.
Many teams assume solving that means building something new: a dedicated network, specialized sensors, another system to fund and maintain. In reality, enterprise-class wireless access points pick up the same kind of signal that indoor location data is built from. The data itself doesn’t exist yet, but the network capable of producing it does.
For IT, operations and facilities leaders, that changes the math. Leveraging Wi-Fi for indoor GPS-like capabilities means new visibility without additional complexity. It also means AI and automation systems finally get real-time context, improving...
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