1. Zebra FTM Wi-Fi Location Integrator Guide
  2. Overview
  3. Use Cases
  • Zebra FTM Wi-Fi Location Integrator Guide
Use Cases

Use Cases

Enterprise Applications commonly strive to support use cases of Indoor Navigation, Device Tracking, Asset Tracking, and other Location Based Services (LBS) on their Mobile Devices. For example:
  • Navigation to merchandise on a store shelf shows the real-time path over a map.
  • Find the closest associate to a specific location and dispatch that associate to quickly help a shopper who rings from a large store's help station. The system needs the precise location of all associates and decides who is the closest.
  • Track device, which is forgotten/lost by an associate on high shelves, forklifts, etc.
  • Record precisely where an application has an issue or service/connectivity.
Using Wi-Fi FTM for those use cases delivers on two major standardized points:
  • Based on the time-of-flight Round Trip Time (RTT) protocol, sub-meter accuracy yields precise distance between two involved FTM-capable entities (Device and AP), replacing older sensory-based only technologies such as RSSI and others.
  • Leveraging the ubiquity of Wi-Fi networks does not require separate infrastructure.