Mobility: The final frontier
As the two-year, smart city mobility-focused frontierCities2 Accelerator draws to a close, Kevin Borras, José Papí, Claudio Caferri, and Raffaele Alfonsi present a comprehensive guide to the 18 FIWARE SMEs and start-ups from eight different European countries.
These were selected for Market Acceleration Grants, aimed at already developed FIWARE-supported applications, and Development and Acceleration Grants, aimed at novel FIWARE-supported applications.
The project promised 'Another Level of Impact' and it has delivered.
FI-ASSIST – Germany
Location awareness has become a key factor in smart mobility, both in public spaces and in industry. Location-based services in industrial environments can deliver significant benefits, such as tracking assets (machines, inventory, etc.) or analysing industrial processes.
FI-ASSIST is an innovative technology developed by the German start-up Telocate, offering a high-precision indoor navigation and localisation system for industrial applications, based on acoustic localisation.
The system consists of mobile acoustic senders and Telocate acoustic receivers installed in the building. With this novel acoustic technology, a precision of 10 cm is achieved—five times better than conventional approaches.
The company
Telocate is a young German technology start-up with the ambition to revolutionise the indoor localisation market with FI-ASSIST. A spin-off from the University of Freiburg, the company currently employs nine people.
Despite its youth, the team has built excellent links with both industry and academia, and is well attuned to user needs. Telocate has already earned recognition for its business idea and market uptake. Among several awards, it received 2nd place as the ICT Foundation of the Year 2017.
