Solving Indoor Navigation: How Hyper Achieved 1-Meter Accurate Indoor GPS
2025-08-01
A developer's journey, from viral AR navigation demos to tackling the indoor navigation challenge for a world-leading retailer, culminated in the founding of Hyper. This article details the three core challenges of indoor navigation: indoor maps, indoor navigation, and indoor location. The author explains how they overcame limitations of Bluetooth beacons, WiFi, magnetometers, and computer vision, ultimately achieving a breakthrough 1-meter accurate indoor GPS by combining WiFi and SLAM technology, and cleverly addressing SLAM drift and orientation challenges. Their future ambition is to scale this technology to a billion users.
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