Since the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS), positioning technologies play a big role in everyday life. While being extremely useful in outdoor areas, for example for navigating to certain addresses, the satellite-based technology has limited use when locating objects or people inside of buildings. However, especially big companies can profit from locating the position of standing or moving objects inside, economically but also to secure the safety of their employees during a global pandemic , which is why indoor-positioning is no new term for many organizations.
Even though, nowadays there are many ways of locating objects inside of buildings, one technology in particular has pushed through: