About
How it works
Navizon estimates a mobile device's current geographic location, latitude and longitude, by triangulation using as references the cell phone and Wi-Fi signals the mobile device receives, in addition to GPS.
Triangulation
Navizon is a geographic positioning system for mobile devices that estimates their locations by triangulation, using Wi-Fi, cellular phone and GPS signals. It works on all networks (GSM, CDMA, 3G) and across all operators throughout the world. It should be noted that Navizon only listens for signals and does not attempt to connect to any wireless networks.
Database of cell ids and Wi-Fi access point locations
Navizon has collected a global database with the geographic locations of Wi-Fi access points and cellular phone towers. Navizon's Global coverage map can be checked with Google Earth. (Note: Wi-Fi coverage is shown in red and Cellular coverage in blue.)
Coverage
See the results of our crowdsourcing program over time
Crowdsourcing
Navizon relies on a community of over one million registered users to collect information about Wi-Fi and cellular tower locations. This approach allows us to offer a truly global coverage and a dynamic database that is constantly updated.
Company
Location matters. And we know geolocation...
Founded in January 2005 by a team of veterans in the geolocation industry, Navizon (formerly Mexens Technology) is the maker of the first geographic positioning system to combine GPS, Wi-Fi and cellular phone signals. Navizon is available on most mobile platforms including Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian/S60 and Java phones and across all carriers around the world.
Navizon's global database of Wi-Fi access point and cell id locations was built through an innovative crowdsourcing program by a community of more than one million registered users from all over world. Thanks to its innovative technology and incentive programs, Navizon's user community has grown virally from 50,000 to more than a million users in approximately one year. In addition to covering all the wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, GSM, CDMA and 3G towers), Navizon's database is truly dynamic, being updated with a flow of over 500,000 data points every day.
The Navizon positioning engine is available to third parties through Navizon's catalog of Enterprise solutions. In July 2008, the US Patent Office recognized the innovative nature of Navizon's positioning technology by issuing several patents for its wireless triangulation technology.
Prior to Navizon, the same team also founded Infosplit, a provider of IP-address geolocation solutions that was acquired in 2004 by Quova, Inc. Additionally, Microsoft Inc. owns the Intellectual Property of geolocation created by Infosplit.
Navizon, Inc. is headquartered in Miami, FL
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