oblu: A Shoe-mounted Indoor GPS

"A shoe-sensor for indoor positioning of humans & robots. Also an Arduino compatible programmable IMU for diverse motion sensing applications"

Oblu is an opensource development board for wearable motion sensing. It is also an Arduino compatible programmable IMU for diverse inertial sensing applications. It comes pre-programmed as a shoe-mounted pedestrian dead reckoning PDR sensor for indoor navigation and personnel tracking. Real time tracking of first responders, robot navigation, geo-survey, understanding physics of motion, activity monitoring of elderly, gaming, VR etc are only few from the long list of applications which have been demonstrated using oblu.

Oblu is battery operable and uses Bluetooth Low Energy BLE for wireless data transmission. It is easily configurable and comes along with an Android application Xoblu for personnel tracking, a PC-based tool MIMUscope for detailed analysis and hardware accessories for ease of usage.

Oblu is based on opensource OpenShoe platform.

Since beginning, Oblu (and its predecessor) has been distributed in 22 countries, to students, DIY enthusiasts, industrial & academic researchers, entrepreneurs etc. It comes from the makers of Inertial Elements which is a famous multi-IMU array modules available commercially.