9 comments

  • dzink 9 hours ago
    Also possible use cases: Drones, Drone attacks on individuals with smartwatches, tracking of dissidents, these days you have to think about all possible angles.
  • lmc 4 hours ago
    The title is very misleading. The technique (RTK) depends on using a second receiver, not just a smartwatch on its own.
    • zokier 2 hours ago
      Title is fine. The key is the plural, smartwatches. From the actual article:

      > No geodetic station is involved in this study, as one of the smartwatches serves as the base station.

      • tecleandor 1 hour ago
        Oh, that's interesting, I have to read it... Did they set up the smartwatch in a fixed place?
      • lmc 1 hour ago
        Ah yes, somehow I missed this :-S. Would edit my comment if I could.
  • amelius 11 hours ago
    > centimetre-level precision over four hours with a stationary setup

    Ok, so does this really mean the smartwatch should not move for four hours?

    • stavros 11 hours ago
      Yes.
    • bobthepanda 7 hours ago
      I mean it does demonstrate you can do it with something as small as a smartwatch
  • Zufriedenheit 4 hours ago
    Is this just RTK? Which uses an extra stationary antenna and has been around for years. Or is there something new here?
    • crote 2 hours ago
      The main novelty seems to be in doing it using cheap consumer hardware, rather than specialized $10.000 professional RTK receivers.

      In-home centimetre-level smartwatch positioning using a Nest as RTK base station could allow for some neat applications!

  • jayd16 11 hours ago
    Even with the stationary requirement, this is pretty neat.

    One could imagine cheap turn-key devices that self locate and provide an accurate beacon for real time triangulation.

  • nashashmi 8 hours ago
    I imagine a system where several devices broadcast their coordinates to each other, and this way each device knows how far it is from a device and approximates its location based on the distance and coordinate of the other device, then matches it with its own GPS to narrow its coordinate even further.
  • cwmoore 11 hours ago
    How can this support the panopticon of public safety?
    • blurbleblurble 10 hours ago
      Just one more piece of the behavior recognition and total sensor fusion puzzle. This can also be used to train passive RF based sensing techniques to be more accurate.
  • petermcneeley 10 hours ago
    Cheap positioning for construction projects.
    • Cthulhu_ 3 hours ago
      Is there anything wrong with the existing techniques?
    • throwaway173738 8 hours ago
      Precision is not accuracy. I wouldn’t use this on a construction project without first setting a control point.
  • sodaclean 7 hours ago
    while researching links to back up me calling this a nothing burger, I found this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=twqqak3XVuY which upgrades this to Puff Piece.

    it gets worse- the overseeing professor mentioned here, and in the video, is the author of the paper linked in the description- from 2018. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00190-018-1192-5)

    See: https://www.u-blox.com/en/technologies/high-precision-positi... for information thats not one guy stroking his... ego.

    Also, PPP-RTK is another keyword.

    • zokier 2 hours ago
      What is your complaint here exactly?