Indoor Positioning UsingWireless Local Area Networks

Author

Wallbaum, Michael ; Spaniol, Otto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., RWTH Aachen Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

26

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modern Computing, 2006. JVA '06. IEEE John Vincent Atanasoff 2006 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sofia

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2643-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JVA.2006.28

Filename

4022034