| Website | locatacorp.com |
| Category | Other |
| Phone | +61-2-6126-5700 |
| Employees | 37 |
| Founded | 3/97 |
| Description | Terrestrial GPS |
Locata Corporation has invented world-first radio-location technology which replicates GPS in a local area (e.g. inside a warehouse, across a city, etc) and it promises incredibly accurate positioning in the myriad environments where today GPS is either flaky or unavailable for modern apps. Locata calls this “Your Own GPS”. Locata is the only technology in the world that can do this.
A network of terrestrially-based LocataLite beacons transmit proprietary signals which autonomously create a positioning network called a LocataNet. This network operates in combination with GPS (e.g. open-cut mining, construction sites) or totally independent of GPS (e.g. indoors or urban areas). Early adopters of Locata technology include the military, open-cut mining, construction and structural deformation markets. In September 2010 Locata also began demonstrating to partners the huge potential of a breakthrough cm-level indoor positioning system for machine automation in warehouses.
As of March 2011 Locata has 69 granted patents on devices and systems which advance radio-location technology to completely new levels, and over 160 more patents in the pipeline. Locata’s “go-to-market†is through partnerships with the worlds’ leading GPS companies acting as our integrators.
LocataNets have the utterly unique ability to replicate a GPS satellite constellation locally – on the ground. For the first time ever, Locata technology will allow any entity… mine, port, construction site, warehouses, airports, strategic assets - and eventually entire cities… to determine for themselves the reliability and accuracy of positioning they wish to deploy, under their own local control, with complete autonomy.
Locata technology will be publicly released to the market in 2011.
In a nutshell: we are the inventor, developer and supplier of the most reliable and flexible local wireless positioning signal the world has ever seen. It will change forever what can be done with positioning technology. Watch this space….
