Batphone
Acoustic Indoor Localization
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone
iPhone
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.
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Fixed iOS 10 compatibility issues.
The developer, Stephen Tarzia, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- Stephen Tarzia
- Size
- 1 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- 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
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2010 Stephen P. Tarzia