Geolocation server - Coordinates become context aware

Localization and tracking technologies are rapidly evolving and have a huge impact on our daily life. Most of the available tracking or localization technologies use a coordinate based approach. They describe the current location through a set of coordinates. Although the position is described sufficiently with this set of coordinates, the circumjacent context is not. This work describes an approach to overcome this lack of contextual awareness for an industrial indoor localization. It introduces a service layer which enriches given coordinates based on existing blueprints with context information. The identified entities of the circumjacent context of the coordinates are communicated via a machine readable interface. The interface provides the logical entities geometry and a set of attributes which can be used to obtain further information like electrical or mechanical connections.