Outdoors, mapping and positioning technologies merge to form one single service thanks to the global availability of the GPS. However, inside buildings, plenty of indoor positioning technologies (IPS) exists: Beacons, Wi-Fi, Li-Fi, Ultrasounds, to name a few.
Today, every provider is coming with its own API and standards, which makes it complicated for app developers to integrate and test multiple solutions. This framework aims at uniformizing the API of all providers so they can easily be used, combined, shown on maps and processed.
This framework –Indoor Location– is available as an Open Source Project under the MIT License.