Latest Episode : 2025/11/3 delivery
Changing the world with indoor sensing and area management
Professor Nishio has been researching indoor sensing at Ritsumeikan University for over 20 years. He talks about the development of Street View while working at Google in 2008, his subsequent mapping research in the Umeda underground shopping mall after returning to Japan, and the application of indoor sensing technology to autonomous driving and disaster prevention systems. This episode is a must-listen for anyone involved in indoor location information, including research into UWB and automatic fingerprint updates.
Speaker: Nobuhiko Nishio,
Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
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Location Weekly Japan is a podcast run by LBMA Japan (Location Business & Marketing Japan), a general incorporated association that promotes business marketing services using location data. Every week, we interview management and business personnel from member companies, introduce the latest examples of location data usage, and share notable events around the world, as well as behind-the-scenes stories that can only be heard here.
As we are an organization with many IT-related members, you will hear a lot of foreign words, but in this podcast we will introduce examples of how location data is being used in a way that is as easy to understand as possible, so please feel free to listen.
MC: Kuniyuki Kawashima (Representative Director of LBMA Japan)
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