First Devlog

This is just the start of the main project and the point where the project really begins.

I took my time thinking about a new way of doing location detection using cell towers, and this is the first step toward turning that idea into a real system.

The Idea

After a few weeks of thinking, I started building an approach for implementing pose estimation using cell towers in a much more precise way.I am not sure yet if it will actually work, but I definitely want to try it because it might be one of the best possible approaches for this problem.I call this method Cellflow Location Estimation.

Cellflow Location Estimation

The basic idea is to use past tower data, tower analytics, Timing Advance, and IMU movement together.Instead of relying on a single tower reading, the system can use:

• past observations of cell towers
• tower connection behavior over time
• Timing Advance data
• IMU movement vectors
• possible past location points
• movement correction from the past point to the present
  With this, the system could generate multiple possible paths and location points, then use the IMU movement vector to bring those estimates to the current moment and check them against Timing Advance and tower data.This is still theoretical, but I think it can work and possibly become one of the most precise cell-tower-based location methods yet.

Concerns

I also thought about the possible concerns and abuse risks of this method.If this approach works well, it might be possible to estimate location without GPS being enabled, or without normal location permissions in some cases.
It could potentially be misused for tracking without consent or in war-related situations where GPS is jammed, spoofed, or unavailable.
Still, I am more hopeful than concerned right now, especially now that I have a Google Play developer licence. I plan to work on this a lot more and move it closer to a real release.There is still a long way ahead.I really hope to make this real.

Looks

I suck at it :)

 The idea i have for the looks of the app is to imitate the feeling of looking up at the sky when looking toward a cell tower.I would like to hear ideas on how to improve the UI and create better visual directions for the app.right now i am working on the popup screen with the celltower information . the idea of the colors in the frame is that red are ones are the once that aren’t known yet and aren’t connected orange aren’t connected but are known blue are once who aren’t currently known but are connected and green is connected and known.
as you can see here. i got 3 towers scanned nearby one am connected to one was found and another one which hasn’t been found.
this will also help me debug the current location situation nearby and see which towers still weren’t found