There have been a few exciting changes at OpenCelliD, the largest Open Database of Cell Towers, over the past week and I’m here to update you about it. Markus Semm, the man who built and brought OpenCelliD to where it is today, has transferred its maintainership responsibilities to Unwired Labs. In the past few years, OpenCelliD […]
Author: Aravind
NEW: WiFi Positioning Service
This morning we began rolling out the much awaited WiFi Positioning service to all our customers & developers. The service is built on a large, growing database of over 550 million access-points world over. Best of all, it’s available at no additional charge! What this means for you – if you have products / devices that can detect […]
New: API Availability Dashboard
As an API provider, we believe reliability comes first. Thousands of developers and companies on our platform use our service for non-trivial use cases and we do our bit to ensure high availability. As a responsible company, we believe transparency in our operations comes immediately after reliability. Ask any customer and they’ll vouch for our […]
Getting to 100% uptime
As a startup, adding high-availability can be both time consuming and expensive; two factors usually more critical than high-availability itself. Like most startups, we bootstrapped on AWS with an app server, a DB server, no replication or backups and a few Cloud Watch alarms. As luck would have it, we had no major down-times and this scaled […]
New global endpoints in Asia, Europe and North America
We have launched new endpoints in Asia (Singapore), USA West (San Francisco) and Europe (Amsterdam). Customers and developers in these regions can now enjoy low-latency access to our API. Along with the existing endpoints in USA East (New York) and Europe (Ireland), this launch increases the count of our global endpoints to 5. The URLs […]
Street Addresses now available on LocationAPI
We’re excited to announce the Street Addresses (or reverse geocoding) feature on LocationAPI. With this launch, you can now request a physical street address along with the geolocation result. To request an address, add the “address” parameter to your JSON request and set it’s value to “1” (without quotes). Please refer to the illustration below: […]
New version of API – LTE support & more!
We’re happy to launch an update version of our API v2. Major changes include: Support for LTE technology with about 350,000 cells from 3 new data providers Reduced server response time to under 15ms New “radio” parameter that supports GSM, CDMA, UMTS and LTE cells Please mail in your feedback to contact[at]unwiredlabs.com; we’d really appreciate […]
Geolocation & the Karma metric
Of the twenty or so metrics we monitor at Unwired Labs, the Karma metric is the most important one. What is the Karma metric, you ask? Embarrassingly simple, really. It’s our name for successfully serving a request to a customer – in our case, successfully geolocating a request. And Why is it so important? Because we believe […]
Thank you for a great year!
In many ways, 2013 was the year that defined us. Here are some highlights: We started as a Cell Tower data aggregator supplying to other LBS companies We pivoted from aggregating data to providing an affordable API for developers and companies Our database grew from 2 million to 43.7 million cells in the last year […]
6500 users and 3 million API calls!
Our 6500th user signed-up yesterday! That’s not all, we also reached 3 million API calls in the last 24 hours! This from just 100 users and 5000 API calls back in March! We’d like to thank you, dear users, for getting us this far! We’d also like to thank Thomas Edison’s advice that helped us through […]