The invention discloses a positioning method, device, equipment and
system. The method comprises the following steps: when the
positioning equipment needs to be positioned, judging whether a current position of the
positioning equipment needs to be updated or not; when the current position of the
positioning equipment needs to be updated, starting a
GPS positioning module of the positioning equipment; obtaining nearby Wi-Fi hotspot data of the current positioning equipment; uploading the Wi-Fi hotspot data to a positioning
server, so that the positioning
server obtains first position information according to the Wi-Fi hotspot data, and, when preset conditions are met, updates the current position of the positioning equipment according to the first position information and returns a command to stop
GPS positioning; when the command to stop the
GPS positioning returned by the positioning
server is received, closing the GPS positioning module; and when second position information is obtained through the GPS positioning module, closing the GPS positioning module, and sending the second position information to the positioning server, so that the positioning server updates the current position of the positioning equipment according to the second position information. The positioning method, device, equipment and
system provided by the embodiment of the invention has the
advantage that positioning
power consumption of the positioning equipment can be effectively reduced.