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#93 Phone Location Tracking
Episode 93

#93 Phone Location Tracking

How is the location of your phone determined?

Kopec Explains Software · David Kopec, Rebecca Kopec

May 30, 202212m 30s

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Your phone includes multiple technologies for tracking your location. Your location can be triangulated via signals to cell towers, precisely pinpointed using its GPS chip and a connection to a satellite, and approximated using WiFi signals and a big database of WiFi base station locations. In addition, an Indoor Positioning System like iBeacon can be used to track your phone inside a building. In this episode we explain the tradeoffs between these various methods and how they're typically used.

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