Qubulus Receives Investment, Focuses Indoor Positioning On Events
Last friday Qubulus, the mobile indoor positioning out of Sweden, announced it has completed a funding round led by angel investor Jean Pierre Payat followed by the Swedish government backed investment fund, Innovationsbron. The existing shareholders have also joined the round, including IT consultancy company Jayway, retail re-development company Reteam, as well as Qubulus' management. The size of the investment was undisclosed.
Aside from the funding news, today Qubulus is announcing a new partnership with Crunchfish to add accurate Indoor Positioning support their Hearway app. Together their app basically provides your car's spoken GPS, but for your smartphone.
Qubulus Creates Indoor Positioning Solutions For Users, Developers
Qubulus is a Swedish company producing the engine and algorithms behind what they call QPS, the "Qublus Positioning System". With it, they seek to solve the mobile phone indoor positioning problem that will provide an accurate X, Y and Z level for their own positioning products, and for solutions for developers.
One end-user product they're advertising is Iguana, a workforce collaboration solution that offers you the ability to find and interact with your colleagues, no matter what floor or building they're in. For Developers, Gecko is a tool they've built so anyone can provide indoor positioning in their apps. It's advertised as free to use, and to implement it, basically all you have to do is provide a map of your venue and record a "fingerprints" file by walking through the venue to collect the radio signals.
