Kabel HoloSitum combines virtual reality with indoor positioning

This platform shows the model of an enclosure in 3D identifying, using holograms, the people who are in it and their situation in real time. To do this, Situm is used as an indoor positioning technology, Microsoft HoloLens glasses, as a mixed reality device, and Azure cloud services.

HoloSitum is a platform for locating people in industrial and logistics environments that has been developed by Kabel. It is based on the indoor positioning technology of Situm, than in conjunction with the mixed reality device Microsoft HoloLens and Azure cloud services, to coordinate the different elements, allow you to create a position map of people in real time.

Once the virtual map of the enclosure has been created in three dimensions and users have been provided with a simple mobile phone, HoloSitum app is able to detect and display, through the HoloLens, the situation of users and their movement in real time without the need for beacons or auxiliary devices.

"With Situm, Kabel incorporates unique indoor positioning possibilities. It is a breakthrough and has a clear use for industrial environments, and also for venues such as hospitals, Airports, Museums, warehouses or manufacturing plants", says Miguel Ángel Castejón, director of the Kabel Lab.
In successive iterations HoloSitum could act as a route manager, acting as a 3D GPS that allows to show directions to reach the destination point.

Kabel's team has been working on developing other enterprise solutions around mixed and augmented reality technologies., Artificial Intelligence and indoor positioning to respond to the needs detected in the market.

As a result of this work, it has presented a series of MVPs/proofs of concept on which to develop different use cases.. HoloSitum is one of these MVPs.

"We think mixed reality, in conjunction with cognitive services and indoor and outdoor positioning services, will be an important catalyst for the transformation of many industrial processes. It is for example especially interesting the interaction that happens in HoloLens between its visual interfaces, gesture and voice and the possibilities offered by cognitive voice recognition or computer vision services such as those available in Azure", explains Tomas González, Marketing Director, Kabel Alliances and Business Development.

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