710828Live Crowd InsightsClosedGRD Proof of ConceptInnovate UKModern car navigation systems not only navigate you from A to B but can also take into account traffic congestion and redirect the motorist via the optimal route. We want to build on the appetite for location based tech and drive innovation to provide the same functionality for pedestrians in crowded environments. ThinkInnovate have evolved a number of technologies, establishing Bubbl (from a previous GeoVote Smart PoC), a suite of SDK tech, based on highly innovative internal positioning software and a sophisticated geo-location based app constellation for the events, business and retail sectors. The ‘Live Crowd Insights’ (LCI) project objective is to investigate technical feasibility and prove the concept for an innovative location crowd aware SDK software, to guide users with live crowd analytics data and tracking for multiple friends. To do this we will be fusing: Our device detector sensor integration algorithm that combines multiple discordant sources of information. Geolocation triggering and location based functionality (the technology developed to underpin our Bubbl suite). Distributed crowd capture hardware using off-the-shelf low cost components. Our PoC will solve the anticipated technical challenges allowing us to reach a basic prototype that maps realtime crowd movement, understands bottlenecks and navigates users with the optimal path through a crowd. Outside it’s possible to obtain a position that’s accurate to a few metres with GPS. However, indoors and in dense urban areas buildings disrupt or block satellite signals. With our novel sensor-fusion algorithm, geo triggering algorithms and low cost hardware we will be able to provide a seamless navigation through crowded environments both outside and inside as well as moving between the two. Associated analytics will allow insight into crowd movement, improve flow management and inform environmental and planning decision