Sensewhere, an indoor positioning spinout of University of Edinburgh, has secured an investment of undisclosed size from internet company Tencent, TechCrunch has reported.
The spinout’s technology uses wifi and Bluetooth signals instead of GPS to figure out where a user is located within a building.
Tencent’s investment will enable Sensewhere to accelerate the development of its location database, and will result in integrating the service with all of Tencent’s major apps, such as Tencent Maps.
In November 2014, Sensewhere revealed…
