Nokia Locate Sensor was one of the big secrets that Nokia let out of the bag during CES the other week. At its most basic usage, it’s a location system for finding lost items around the house.

The trials are contiuing and while it’s still heavily in the development stage, and may not even see the light of the real world, the guys over at the Nokia Research Center have been showing off their new toy. What’s more, they’ve even made a quick video to prove that it works.

Nokia Locate Sensor, or Indoor positioning as it’ll no doubt become more commonly known as, works using established Wi-Fi connections and even wireless RFID tags. It can triangulate your position within a limited or restricted area, such as a shopping centre. When it was revealed at CES, the main focus was pretty much on locating the keys, or even your Nok, lost around the house.

However, this tagging system could work just as well to help you find a certain store within a shopping centre, or even the right aisle in a supermarket. The developers are promising pin-point accuracy, to within a meter or two, for a shop, which sounds fantastic.

Trials of NRC’s indoor positioning service are currently being run in 40 buildings world wide, which suggests that this is something more than a lab-only experiment. If you want to see the Locate Sensor in action, then check out this video.

Remember, it’s early days yet but getting lost may just be about to get a little easier. We’d like to give Nokia Conversations a big thanks for helping us out with this story.

Via: Nokia Conversations