PRECISION LOCATION TECHNOLOGY

BeSpoon is one of the only companies in the world to offer indoor precision location technology for consumer applications. The key to the company’s time saving devices? Transmitter-receiver chips installed directly on the items users wish to locate.

Technology

BeSpoon, founded in 2010 by two entrepreneurs with extensive track records in the mobile phone industry, has formed a joint lab with Leti. BeSpoon’s objective?

To benefit from Leti’s location-system know-how and develop an ultra-wideband (500 MHz to 1 GHz) transmitterreceiver chip compatible with smartphone electronics. The joint lab has filed several patents to protect its innovations. In BeSpoon’s devices, a chip integrated into a smartphone communicates with chips on objects to be located, like a laptop computer, handbag, car keys, or a child’s favorite stuffed toy.

The system uses travelling time to determine the location of the object to within a few centimeters’ accuracy, both indoors and out, within a range of up to several hundred meters. The fact that location capabilities have been successfully integrated onto just a few millimeters of silicon will open the door to a broad range of consumer applications. Smartphone and internet box manufacturers— always on the lookout for ways to provide new services—have already expressed interest.