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Location Determination and Tracking Using Radio Beacons

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Location Determination and Tracking Using Radio Beacons. / Zarimpas, Vasileios; Honary, Bahram; Lund, David et al.
3G and Beyond, 2005 6th IEE International Conference on. London , UK: IEEE, 2005. p. 207–211.

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Zarimpas, V, Honary, B, Lund, D, Tanriover, C & Thanopoulos, N 2005, Location Determination and Tracking Using Radio Beacons. in 3G and Beyond, 2005 6th IEE International Conference on. IEEE, London , UK, pp. 207–211. <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4222781>

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Zarimpas, V., Honary, B., Lund, D., Tanriover, C., & Thanopoulos, N. (2005). Location Determination and Tracking Using Radio Beacons. In 3G and Beyond, 2005 6th IEE International Conference on (pp. 207–211). IEEE. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4222781

Vancouver

Zarimpas V, Honary B, Lund D, Tanriover C, Thanopoulos N. Location Determination and Tracking Using Radio Beacons. In 3G and Beyond, 2005 6th IEE International Conference on. London , UK: IEEE. 2005. p. 207–211

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Zarimpas, Vasileios ; Honary, Bahram ; Lund, David et al. / Location Determination and Tracking Using Radio Beacons. 3G and Beyond, 2005 6th IEE International Conference on. London , UK : IEEE, 2005. pp. 207–211

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title = "Location Determination and Tracking Using Radio Beacons",
abstract = "Location awareness is an important capability for a series of wirelessly-enhanced business and consumer mobile applications. Low-cost devices that can be incorporated into a broad range of business and consumer appliances can be used for location determination and tracking. In this paper, we demonstrate a radio beacon-based approach that suggests heterogeneous wireless networks can be joined together to provide wide area tracking capability. Our implementation is based on probabilistic and statistical techniques, where signal strengths measurements from cellular networks are used to estimate the user's location. Simulation results and field tests around Lancaster University campus show that these techniques can achieve good performance (accuracy less than 50 m) compared with traditional deterministic methods (i.e. triangulation).",
keywords = "GSM/GPRS, beacons , location determination , positioning , probabilistic , signal strength",
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year = "2005",
month = nov,
language = "English",
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RIS

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N2 - Location awareness is an important capability for a series of wirelessly-enhanced business and consumer mobile applications. Low-cost devices that can be incorporated into a broad range of business and consumer appliances can be used for location determination and tracking. In this paper, we demonstrate a radio beacon-based approach that suggests heterogeneous wireless networks can be joined together to provide wide area tracking capability. Our implementation is based on probabilistic and statistical techniques, where signal strengths measurements from cellular networks are used to estimate the user's location. Simulation results and field tests around Lancaster University campus show that these techniques can achieve good performance (accuracy less than 50 m) compared with traditional deterministic methods (i.e. triangulation).

AB - Location awareness is an important capability for a series of wirelessly-enhanced business and consumer mobile applications. Low-cost devices that can be incorporated into a broad range of business and consumer appliances can be used for location determination and tracking. In this paper, we demonstrate a radio beacon-based approach that suggests heterogeneous wireless networks can be joined together to provide wide area tracking capability. Our implementation is based on probabilistic and statistical techniques, where signal strengths measurements from cellular networks are used to estimate the user's location. Simulation results and field tests around Lancaster University campus show that these techniques can achieve good performance (accuracy less than 50 m) compared with traditional deterministic methods (i.e. triangulation).

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KW - positioning

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KW - signal strength

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

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BT - 3G and Beyond, 2005 6th IEE International Conference on

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CY - London , UK

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