Indoor/outdoor management system compliant with Google Maps and Android® OS

Outdoor location/navigation systems are a useful support for our daily life. The majority of these systems are based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), which include for example, Global Positioning System (GPS) and Galileo. For indoor location systems several technologies have been presented, each of them with different characteristics. Like this, the choice of the location technology is related with several important factors such as: precision, latency, power consumption, mobile nodes and infrastructure cost. Outdoor and indoor location systems provide a huge area of application, although, the integration of both systems provide even higher levels of availability, and a huge open market for applications. One of the crucial development areas of this systems integration is the development of a robust management application, compliant with actual nowadays systems and technologies. This paper presents a management system for indoor/outdoor location completely compliant with two important systems of nowadays, Google Maps and Android® operation system (OS). Our integrated system is based in ZigBee and GPS/GPRS modules.