Unknot.id has joined the Esri Partner Network and has begun integrating its contextual behavioral intelligence platform (CBIP) with ArcGIS technology to revolutionize the tracking and visualization of humans and assets indoors, requiring zero infrastructure.

Published April 1, 2023

Unknot.id joins ESRI startup program

ORLANDO, FLORIDA – April 1, 2023 – Unknot.id Inc., born in 2020 and funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, is transforming the tracking and monitoring of mobile objects without the need for infrastructure, by utilizing a software-as-a-service technology, powered by artificial intelligence, for commercial off the shelf devices.

Precise localization and tracking within areas of dense infrastructure (e.g., indoor spaces with one or multiple floors) is a challenging problem for which there is currently no de facto solution. The widely used Global Positioning System (GPS) can only trace users when they are outdoors. In an indoor, urban, or underground environment, GPS may be disrupted by NLOS (non-line-of-sight) conditions, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth beacons may be unreliable or difficult to setup and manage, and camera-based tracking may be privacy-invasive and handicapped by lighting conditions or occlusions. On the other hand, over 6.6 billion users carry smartphones embedded with a multitude of sensors that provide an expansive level of granular information about the user and their behavior. Using advanced, artificially intelligent, and privacy-aware machine-learning algorithms, Unknot.id exploits these sensors readily accessible in commercial off the shelf devices such as smartphones to precisely locate humans and assets in highly challenging and complex environments with only sub-meter errors. Unknot. id’s AI software is sensor-agnostic and is not limited to smartphone sensors, thereby enabling a “bring your own sensor “paradigm, requiring no Indoor positioning infrastructure such as Bluetooth or UWB beacons.

Unknot.id in partnership with U.S. Army Development Command (DEVCOM) is currently enhancing their platform capabilities to trace users anywhere, including the ability to visualize their location inside large buildings with narrow spaces and multi-level structures. Although the company is currently focused on the GPS-denied or degraded navigation market, Unknot.id intends to expand to work with other customers to provide an alternative low-cost way of tracking humans and assets for a plethora of current and future industry use cases. Another benefit of Unknot.id’s technology is its ability to learn how humans interact with physical objects and predict future behavior, creating additional opportunities for commercial applications in hospitality, health care and other industry verticals.

David Litos, Chief Strategy Officer

Email: dlitos@unknot.id