The technology is featured in many other apps for outdoor use, allowing mobile phones to be used for orientation purposes.
The new app is an update on the CPH iPhone application originally launched in the summer of 2010, further improved to better inform passengers about e.g. the walking distances to gates, the way to the nearest coffee shop or how to book parking.
The app allows users to ‘scan’ the terminals for information using their iPhone camera. The camera will photograph points of interest such as shops, restaurants and gates and tell users their distance to those points and in which direction they are located.
Most people are familiar with GPS positioning with apps such as Google Maps but because GPS signals cannot penetrate concrete structures, this technology does not successfully work inside the terminal buildings, the airport explained. Instead, the airport’s finely meshed Wi-Fi infrastructure will be used to provide as precise positioning as GPS indoors.
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