Batphone 4+
Acoustic Indoor Localization
Stephen Tarzia
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
iPhone Screenshots
Description
Batphone is a research tool which demonstrates a method determining your location within a building. It's meant to be an alternative to GPS or iBeacon, and it works by using the microphone to record room ambience. These acoustic room fingerprints are used to recognize previously-tagged rooms when they are revisited. For comparison, it also shows the position retrieved from Location Services, which determines your coordinates using radio signals from GPS satellites, wifi and cellular base stations. Our experiments have shown that Batphone's acoustic method is more accurate than the radio method. Try it for yourself and let us know what you think!
Fore more details, please see the report titled "Indoor Localization without Infrastructure using the Acoustic Background Spectrum" which was presented at the 2011 MobiSys conference.
What’s New
Version 1.4
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Fixed iOS 10 compatibility issues.
App Privacy
The developer, Stephen Tarzia, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Provider
- Stephen Tarzia
- Size
- 1 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2010 Stephen P. Tarzia
- Price
- Free