PathSense - a new SDK for locating without using GPS

PathSense offers an SDK for creating programs on Android and iOS, which, according to their statements, spend 90% less battery power than a standard GPS receiver. The author of the project is Pete Tenerillo, known for his successful startup Trapster. After two years of technology development, the Pete team developed, patented, and introduced a library that combines the use of inertial and other sensors with a self-learning system and a prediction system for orientation. Excluding from the chain a very demanding GPS receiver, the library retains battery power.

Pete on the start-up site comments on his project: “Applications that use GPS strongly discharge the battery. Everyone who has a smartphone has come across this. PathSense solves this problem by providing an alternative to GPS. This is a software development kit for iOS and Android. It uses multiple sensors and inertial navigation to navigate with close, and sometimes superior, GPS, using 90% less battery power. From today, developers can submit applications for early access to the library on our website. ”

Pete's previous startup, Trapster, is an application that runs on almost all platforms for smartphones that he launched in 2007, designed for drivers. Drivers past police traps — police officers in the bushes with radar, cameras fixing a red light, high-speed cameras, etc. — enter this information into the application, and then other drivers passing through “dangerous” places are issued warnings about this. The application quickly gained popularity - in two years more than a million people registered in it. In 2010, a startup was acquired by Nokia, and Pete started developing the current project.