Title :
Indoor Positioning UsingWireless Local Area Networks
Author :
Wallbaum, Michael ; Spaniol, Otto
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., RWTH Aachen Univ.
Abstract :
Determining the context of users and machines is an important topic in current computing research. An essential detail of a physical object´s context is its location, which includes both the actual position as well as the semantics of the surroundings. This paper focuses on the specific problem of determining the position of objects and people within buildings. A low-cost approach is based on wireless LANs, which are now widely deployed. The paper presents a sophisticated probabilistic algorithm for indoor positioning using wireless LANs, but also discusses the problems that need to be solved to make indoor geolocation commonplace
Keywords :
indoor communication; ubiquitous computing; wireless LAN; computing research; indoor geolocation; indoor positioning; object context; object position; sophisticated probabilistic algorithm; wireless LAN; wireless local area network; Computer networks; Computer science; Context; Context-aware services; Costs; Global Positioning System; Local area networks; Pattern recognition; Signal processing; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Modern Computing, 2006. JVA '06. IEEE John Vincent Atanasoff 2006 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sofia
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2643-8
DOI :
10.1109/JVA.2006.28
