Beyond HTML5 geolocation: A flexible concept to enable and easily use advanced positioning technologies for mobile indoor location based service web applications

This paper introduces a possibility for websites running in a standard web browser on smartphones to also use context adjusted technologies not supported by web technology, although strongly needed especially for location based service (LBS) application for. We outline surrounding conditions of the technologies used for the implementation of LBS. Inferred from identified limiting factors and the inflexibility of available location strategies, we show how e.g. an established IMU-sensor based positioning system library could be used by web applications with a standard HTML hyperlink. This extends the applications of available, specialized indoor positioning modules greatly to the domain of existing and upcoming location based online-services.