Trusted Portable Navigator (T-PN) provides a real-time,continuous and reliable positioning and localizationsolution for indoor or outdoor smartphone usage. The TPNsoftware development kit (SDK) is a highlymodularized and flexible SDK that can easily beconfigured to fit a variety of mobile and portable devices.The T-PN was tested on MOTOROLA Xoom Wi-FiMZ604 running Android 3.2, SAMSUNG Galaxy NexusGT-I9250 running Android 4.0, Blackberry 16GBPlaybook QNX 2.0.1.358, the SAMSUNG Galaxy NoteGT-N7000 which is running Android 2.3, and theSAMSUNG SIII running Android 4.0.4. The T-PN makesuse of Micro-Electro Mechanical Sensors (MEMS)inertial sensors that are already a part of smartphones toenable entertainment and provide convenience to the user.These same sensors when used by T-PN provide 3-Dpositioning to the user when satellite signals are degradedor absent in urban canyons or in deep indoorenvironments. The solution also provides the heading ofthe user, the 3D orientation of the device, and the user'svelocity, all without imposing any restriction on the usageof the device.The T-PN solution provides accuracy measures inaddition to the position, velocity, and attitude solution tosatisfy the high demands of Location Based Services(LBS).
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