LightBox Announces the Completion of Its Enhanced Nationwide Smart Location Fabric

LightBox, a leading information and technology platform for the commercial real estate and location-based analytics industry, announced the release of a newly enhanced nationwide location fabric. "The problem that state and federal agencies are trying to solve is location data accuracy for broadband mapping, said Bill Price, vice president of government solutions. "The new offering, SmartFabric, solves that problem." SmartFabric gets its name from a technologically innovative design that integrates each of LightBox’s core parcel, building footprint, address file, and geocoding with points of interest, cell phone location, and tax assessor details in a proprietary and flexible modeled fabric. The LightBox data acquisition team achieved tremendous gains in its coverage and depth of rural areas, tribal lands, and US territories. “Notably, these are some of the areas where the digital divide in the country is at its widest,” said Zach Wade, vice president of data science. The broadband serviceability modeling represents another large step forward for the broadband industry. LightBox has now combined its prior use of approximately two billion Wi-Fi access points with billions of real-time cell phone GPS observations. The result provides even greater precision to tie building footprints to ISP data, particularly in tribal regions, and improved classification of building types as commercial or residential where municipal assessor coverage does not exist.