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INNOVATION ECONOMY

Moving mapping technology indoors

By Scott Kirsner

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 20, 2011

The next big nut to crack in the navigation business is “indoor positioning,’’ which can solve problems as crucial as helping a fire chief understand where his firefighters are within a burning building or as mundane as leading you to an ATM in an unfamiliar airport. A Cambridge start-up called ByteLight is working on a solution that could be as simple as screwing in a lightbulb. The company was spawned by Boston University’s Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center

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