Commscope to Use Intersec Technology for Mass Geo-Location & Geo-Fencing

Commscope has announced this week an update in its mobile location services for wireless operators with the introduction of a new product called “GeoLENS Locate“ and powered by a mix of passive cell-ID location technology from Intersec and its own Mobile Location Center.

Intersec’s technology passively gathers events from the core network of the operators to locate subscribers and maintain a real-time database of their location for each cell of the network. The huge advantage of this technology is that it has little impact on the network when it comes to locating massive amount of mobile subscribers.

Technology agnostic, GeoLENs Locate is designed to access and use virtually any mobile location method supported by the service provider’s network.

In the case of a public safety incident, for example, GeoLENs Locate establishes a coarse view of the users within a geographic area defined by civil authorities. Active location then identifies which mobile devices are within or near this “virtual perimeter,” and law enforcement can route emergency messages to those devices.

Similar techniques can be employed for targeted marketing among opt-in subscribers and with social applications such as child tracking.