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Nick Rozaev

Nick Rozaev

Solution Delivery Manager

With 50+ projects of Indoor Navigation and RTLS behind his back, Nick is always up for a new challenge, whether it’s coming up with a new approach for old location-based problems or exploring new verticals. Nick is your main interface to creating your facility location-intelligent.

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What is Location-Based Analytics? Transforming Industries and Enhancing Experiences with Data

What is Location-Based Analytics? Transforming Industries and Enhancing Experiences with Data

Location-based analytics, also known as location-based data analytics or indoor analytics, has recently emerged as a powerful tool for business development and improving user experiences. This type of analytics involves collecting and analyzing location data, offering deep insights into patterns and visitor behaviors across various sectors. This innovative approach revolutionizes how businesses operate and interact with their clients, from retail and healthcare to logistics and industry.

Choosing the RTLS Solution for Your Business: Factors to Consider

Choosing the RTLS Solution for Your Business: Factors to Consider

Selecting the right Real-time locating system (RTLS) solution is critical for companies looking to streamline operations and increase efficiency. There are many technologies available on the market that differ in purpose, object tracking accuracy, deployment environment, and other parameters. With so much variety, it can be difficult to determine which RTLS solution is best for your business. In this article, we will look at the main selection criteria and provide recommendations that will help you choose the right options.

UWB vs Bluetooth® LE: Which One Is the More Accurate Solution?

UWB vs Bluetooth® LE: Which One Is the More Accurate Solution?

According to statistics, the global indoor positioning market in 2023 is estimated at $8.8 billion. It’s projected that by 2027 its volumes will reach $27 billion, so many companies are striving to introduce indoor positioning into their infrastructure. So, the question arises - which technology is the better option? In this article, we'll take a look at the two most common solutions - UWB vs. Bluetooth® LE, and compare their features and advantages.

How to Effectively Track Assets in Manufacturing

How to Effectively Track Assets in Manufacturing

In recent years, industrial asset tracking has become increasingly important. It’s being used by many companies, including big factories, who want to optimize their production processes and increase their efficiency. Statistically speaking, as of 2021 alone, the asset tracking market was valued at $17.75 billion. In the near future, its average annual growth rate is projected to rapidly increase and reach 13.91% by 2027.

How to Create an Indoor Map for Your Space

How to Create an Indoor Map for Your Space

Every year more and more companies are introducing indoor navigation into their infrastructure. It’s actively used by airports, medical facilities, colleges, and factories. According to MRFR forecasts, by 2030, the global indoor positioning and navigation market will be valued at $92.36 billion, with a CAGR of 32.56%. It’s important to note that for applications with the indoor navigation feature to work, you have to create an indoor map of the room. In this article, we will cover how to create indoor navigation maps and which steps you have to take.

Importance of hospital wayfinding in 2024

Importance of hospital wayfinding in 2024

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic has shown that not all medical institutions were ready for mass flows of people. The main problem is that searching for the necessary room or doctor’s office in hospitals can cause anxiety, making a person ask the medical staff who are already overwhelmed with work. Thus, in 2024, it is essential to organize a quick search for objects and convenient indoor navigation for hospitals, which will significantly facilitate the work of employees and increase visitors’ loyalty.

Guiding the Way: How Beacon Navigation is Revolutionizing Industries

Guiding the Way: How Beacon Navigation is Revolutionizing Industries

More and more companies start using indoor navigation to develop their business. In 2020, the global indoor positioning market was estimated at 6.92 bln US dollars. It is expected to increase up to 23.6 bln US dollars by 2025, i.e. the rate of their growth will be on average 27.9% per year. The popularity of beacon navigation is attributed to its practically unlimited functionality. With this technology, it is not only possible to build routes and navigate inside buildings, but also to optimize business processes with detailed movement analytics.

TDoA method (Time Difference of Arrival)

TDoA method (Time Difference of Arrival)

Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) belongs to methods of localization based on applying the principle of multilateration. TDoA algorithm is based on defining the difference in the time spent on transmitting a signal between the tracking tag and the base station. The TDoA angle is calculated by mathematical processing. The method is characterized by high accuracy of localization and allows searching for objects within a long effective range.

How to optimize your office with indoor mapping

How to optimize your office with indoor mapping

Navigation in large shopping centers and office buildings can cause many difficulties. Due to the great number of offices, halls, and floors, visitors can be easily lost and waste much time searching for the required building. In such situations, companies have to use interactive maps of offices. Modern technologies ensure convenient navigation inside business centers and significantly improve client and visitor loyalty.

What is an inertial navigation system (INS)?

What is an inertial navigation system (INS)?

There are numerous data sources that can be used for navigation, including GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth® LE protocols and many more. Among them is inertial navigation, one of the most precise sources of information for indoor positioning.

Pallet tracking in warehouses

Logistics and Warehousing

Pallet tracking in warehouses

Large warehouses can store dozens of thousands of commodity types which are often placed on pallets and trays. In most cases they are not located in convenient places and, as a result, searching for them takes away much of the working time. The optimal solution for improving the efficiency of the warehouse staff performance is the geolocation-based pallet tracking technology. It allows defining the exact location of goods and finding them on the warehouse map in real-time.

Internet of Things in logistics

Logistics and Warehousing

Internet of Things in logistics

The Internet of Things (IoT) significantly affects logistics and warehousing. Smart systems, functioning alongside with sensors and remote devices, allow businesses to considerably improve and automate business processes. To be successful, logistics have to monitor several activities at a time (warehousing, supply chain management, etc.) since only their complex use can ensure the efficient company’s performance.

IoT Asset Tracking Solutions

IoT Asset Tracking Solutions

Asset tracking is vital for a company's effective performance. Ongoing asset monitoring allows companies to minimize equipment losses and reduce downtime costs. Modern asset tracking IoT solutions improve occupational safety, boost profit, and rationalize business processes.

Increasing Hospital Efficiency by 10% due to Asset Tracking and Navigation – Solution by Navigine and Minew

Increasing Hospital Efficiency by 10% due to Asset Tracking and Navigation – Solution by Navigine and Minew

Due to Covid-19 pandemic, hospitals and clinics face an influxe of patients seeking urgent help and care, so it’s essential for health institutions to be ready. Hospital wayfinding solutions from Navigine based on indoor navigation technologies and the special IoT equipment from the hardware partner Minew are ready to help. By combining our solutions, t we have developed a system dedicated to boosting hospital performance. The system is already live in a number of the US institutions.

What is geolocation analytics? How can location-based analytics increase business performance?

What is geolocation analytics? How can location-based analytics increase business performance?

Geolocation analytics is a completely new tool in managing the business that allows evaluating, forecasting, and influencing clients’ behavior. The basis of this technology is the analysis and processing of the data received using defining object location. Using location-based analytics, it is possible to monitor visitor flows, build heat maps, and define asset locations in various places.

Transforming Patient Experience with BLE Indoor Navigation: Webinar by Navigine & Kontakt.io

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Transforming Patient Experience with BLE Indoor Navigation: Webinar by Navigine & Kontakt.io

Hello everyone! During the 30-minute webinar “Transforming Patient Experience with BLE Indoor Navigation”, we discussed the use of indoor navigation and positioning in hospitals with our technology and BLE equipment from Kontakt.io. The speakers were Kapil Asher, director at Healthcare IoT Solutions Kontakt.io, and Nick Rozaev, our sales manager.

Bluetooth® Tracking Inside Buildings

Bluetooth® Tracking Inside Buildings

Bluetooth® Low Energy technology is widely used in many sectors of the economy, tracking assets inside buildings being one of its key directions. By implementing Bluetooth® Low Energy location tracking devices into the company’s infrastructure, it is possible to monitor objects in real-time and get detailed analytics of movements for optimizing the company’s performance.

What is “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” (or Industry 4.0)?

What is “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” (or Industry 4.0)?

The development of digital technologies significantly influences all spheres of our life. Thanks to them, we have entered the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that means a new approach to the organization of work, leisure, and lives of people. Its emergence is connected with the mass distribution of the Internet. The worldwide web has had a major impact on the development of society and has become a prerequisite for creating the modern concept that is called “Industry 4.0 in production”.

A series of lectures on indoor navigation algorithms

A series of lectures on indoor navigation algorithms

Time to learn: we have launched a series of lectures on the algorithms used to build indoor navigation and positioning system. In the next three videos, we'll show you the features: Pedometer Algorithm, Complementary Filter, and Particle Filter. Enjoy watching!

UWB vs Wi-Fi: which technology is better for indoor positioning

UWB vs Wi-Fi: which technology is better for indoor positioning

Defining location in the context of the Internet of Things acquires more and more importance in all spheres of life. In comparison with outdoor geolocation, the working indoor navigation environment is more complicated and its technologies are more varied. At present the most common indoor positioning systems are Wi-Fi and Ultra WideBand technology. Both of them have their own specific features that have to be considered while selecting the optimal way for object monitoring. What are the differences between these two systems? Which of them is better for locating people and assets?

Tracking containers systems in logistics

Logistics and Warehousing

Tracking containers systems in logistics

Many companies all over the world use container traffic for delivering their goods and cargo. The process of transportation by sea differs in its complexity and requires many stages. The navigation and indoor positioning system makes it possible to be sure that the necessary goods are on the right vessel. Thanks to this system, the container arrangement and other useful information, including the port of loading, dimensions, weight, destination, will be available to the employees of the logistics center at any suitable time.

Asset tracking solutions in hospitals

Asset tracking solutions in hospitals

Due to the high cost of medical equipment, hospitals and medical institutions have to monitor carefully its location for preventing thefts and for ensuring permanent accessibility. The hospital asset tracking system allows monitoring equipment and materials in real time. It can provide proper care of patients and radically improve the quality of patient service.

How RTLS solutions help companies during Covid-19

How RTLS solutions help companies during Covid-19

In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, managers have to ensure maximum security of their employees. In order to avoid infection, it’s important to track contacts all the time and follow social distancing, which is practically impossible to achieve by usual control and inspection. In the given issue RTLS technologies against Covid-19 are more effective. They can help to support a healthy environment at the enterprise, create working places with due account to the necessary distance and develop protocols that will help to quickly detect the cases of infection.

How does an intelligent parking system work?

How does an intelligent parking system work?

Navigation car parking solutions allow optimizing the work of indoor and outdoor parking, reducing the time for searching vacant places for leaving a car. In order to simplify the drivers’ life and make them loyal to your company, it’s high time to start thinking about implementing the intelligent car parking system.

How ultrasonic local positioning system works

How ultrasonic local positioning system works

With global development of the Internet, data obtained by using various platforms of indoor positioning and asset tracking is becoming more and more important for business process optimization of enterprises. There are many different technologies used for indoor navigation. One of such technologies is ultrasonic indoor positioning.

Forklift tracking at warehouses using indoor positioning

Logistics and Warehousing

Forklift tracking at warehouses using indoor positioning

Tracking asset movement and availability is an important part of any warehouse performance. Constant forklift and pallet tracking can increase the company’s profit, reduce maintenance costs, increase staff safety, thus, more and more companies try to implement the indoor positioning systems into their business. The forklift and pallet tracking technology allows using the warehouse vehicles more effectively and reacting timely to any emergency situations.

What is indoor mapping technology?

What is indoor mapping technology?

Nowadays the indoor mapping system is experiencing a real revolution. With the development of technologies and data quality improvement, companies get a possibility to perform effective indoor positioning and create maps of buildings with the option of tracking objects in real time.

What to take into account for successful indoor positioning and beacon installation?

What to take into account for successful indoor positioning and beacon installation?

Thanks to its profitability, convenience and high robustness, iBeacon navigation is one of the most common methods of indoor positioning. The key moment of its realization is the correct installation of Bluetooth beacons for indoor positioning, which can ensure efficiency for many years.

Increasing the average check by 6% using indoor navigation – Case for Kesko

Increasing the average check by 6% using indoor navigation – Case for Kesko

Our navigation solution for shopping carts allowed improving the buying experience of the visitors and increasing sales of the Finnish supermarket chain Kesko!

RFID, everything about radio frequency identification technology

RFID, everything about radio frequency identification technology

Radio frequency identification technology, or RFID, is a modern positioning system intended for tracking assets or persons. The platform consists of software, readers and RFID tags (transponders) installed outside or inside the building. Identification via RFID tracking is carried out by means of radio signals that allow the reader to define and record the data stored in tags.

How Geofencing technology works in a positioning system

How Geofencing technology works in a positioning system

Geofencing, or geofencing technology, is widely used in business. Using geofencing technology, it’s possible to set borders of certain areas and initiate any events when a user with a mobile device gets into the area. Geofencing can be compared with an invisible fence whose location is defined by GPS, RFID, Bluetooth beacons and other technologies. It covers everything that appears within the defined radius and allows businessmen to direct necessary notifications to potential clients.

All about iBeacon and the use of technology for indoor positioning and navigation

All about iBeacon and the use of technology for indoor positioning and navigation

The iBeacon technology is a promising development from Apple intended for transmitting Bluetooth signals to the devices located within the range of indoor navigation beacons. Thus, there is a possibility of locating objects in the building. The main operating principle is in setting up tiny beacons that are connected with users’ smartphones by means of the Bluetooth Low Energy standard.

UWB, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth navigation technologies: characteristics and differences

UWB, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth navigation technologies: characteristics and differences

For the last years location tracking technologies have become extremely popular. Being a topical issue in improving business processes, they are being actively implemented in all spheres of life – from staff monitoring to machinery and equipment tracking. The variety of application spheres leads to emerging new systems and standards ensuring varied localization accuracy in time and space.

The companies Navigine also Huawei announced start of the joint solution

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The companies Navigine also Huawei announced start of the joint solution "Indoor Navigation"

On October 13, 2020 the companies Navigine also Huawei announced start of the joint solution "Indoor Navigation" which allows to keep track of location of people, transport means and infrastructure facilities in big buildings with an accuracy of several meters in real time.

Indoor navigation for enterprises: goals, challenges, and use cases

Logistics and Warehousing

Indoor navigation for enterprises: goals, challenges, and use cases

Manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics are now closely linked to digital technologies. Sometimes certain industrial facilities are a few steps ahead of some IT companies in terms of digital transformation.

5 examples of how Navigine SDK makes apps find user locations. Is your niche in the list?

5 examples of how Navigine SDK makes apps find user locations. Is your niche in the list?

A needle in a haystack: how Wi-Fi RTT takes Indoor Positioning to the next level

A needle in a haystack: how Wi-Fi RTT takes Indoor Positioning to the next level

How To Develop An App With Indoor Navigation

How To Develop An App With Indoor Navigation

There are so many articles dedicated to indoor navigation and its benefits for different industries. But often people don't even know where to start. This article will help everyone to understand how to develop an app with indoor navigation, install iBeacons and set up parameters of configuration. Let’s make a tour on how to do it using tools like Navigine Platform.

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