Indoor tracking
September 18th, 2005

TRN Research News says “services that track your position via your cellphone can locate the nearest post office or pizza parlor or indicate which of your friends are nearby, but they don’t work indoors. Researchers from Tartu University in Estonia, the University of Toronto and Intel Research Seattle are aiming to change that. They have developed an indoor localization system that picks up cellphone signals. The ability to track people room by room is a key requirement for ubiquitous computing, allowing, for example, co-workers to find each other easily and location-specific information to be delivered to a person’s cellphone”.

Indoor cellphone tracking

TRN Research News says “services that track your position via your cellphone can locate the nearest post office or pizza parlor or indicate which of your friends are nearby, but they don’t work indoors. Researchers from Tartu University in Estonia, the University of Toronto and Intel Research Seattle are aiming to change that. They have [...]

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indoor tracking

Wearable computer collect at least a lot of information an dcompute them. Sure. To do so they often need environmental data. One of them is to localize you. And that still a problem. As easy it is for you to…

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