Nokia's Kamppi Trial succeeds at indoor positioning, gets shelve...

Courtesy Engadget  Tue, 12/22/2009 - 09:15

Nokia's Kamppi Trial succeeds at indoor positioning, gets archived anyway (video) Sure, GPS can get you to the mall, but can it route you from the Bon Ton down to Penney's?

Not so much. Indoor navigation is still generally a paper map reliant affair, something Nokia attempted to do away with at the Kamppi Shopping Center in Helsinki.

The service, also called Kamppi, relied on wireless LAN to position people within the complex, meaning anyone with an S60 handset with WiFi could simply browse to kamppi.nokia.mobi, see their...

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