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Who's onCampus: A Campus-Wide Location System

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) do not only provide a means for wireless communication, they can also supply terminal positions to location-aware ser- vices and applications. This paper presents a location-aware mobile learning platform and its underlying location service. The system extracts sensor data from a university- wide WLAN infrastructure to determine user locations.

Using of mobile device localization for several types of applications in mobile information systems

Abstract. The area of interest is in a model of a radio-frequency based system enhancement for locating and tracking users of our information system inside the buildings. The developed framework as it is described here joins the concepts of location and user tracking as an extension for a new type of mobile information systems. The realized framework uses a WiFi network infrastructure to let a mobile device determine its indoor position. User location can be used by several types of applications.

Campus-Wide Indoor Tracking Infrastructure

International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services

In the context of large-scale indoor spaces location- based services still lack a feasible technology for localization and tracking in terms of ubiquitous operation. In this article, we present a tracking system based on wireless local area network infrastructure that is capable of simultaneously tracking numerous and diverse mobile clients (i.e., cell phones, laptops, personal digital assistants and alike) in multistory buildings within a campus facility at a near real time resolution and without client software to be installed. In the course of a real-life project at the campus of the University of Linz we have been studying deployment issues and environmental influences on infrastructure-based tracking in a large-scale setup that comprises various types of building structures and architecture. We contribute our findings regarding effects of arbitrary environmental conditions on radio signal based person tracking and present our current results. Furthermore, we demonstrate the fea...

Tracing Real Time Location of a Friend in Mobile System

2012

The application of this project is to track a number of people even in crowded natural environments. A system of this sort would be useful in a number of applications, such as human-computer interaction, surveillance, and mobile robots that work among people. The robustness of the system will be able to operate even with partial occlusions of the subjects, and recover from tracking errors where a subject is temporarily lost. Finally, the techniques will be implemented on standard available hardware, and run fast enough to track in real time mobile system. It can be used to assist users in tracking colleagues and friends within a campus environment. Keywords: Real-Time Location System (RTL S), BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), GPS. I. INTRODUCTION A real-time location system (RTLS) is one of the emerging technologies that detect the current geolocation of a person (target), which may be anything from a vehicle to an item in a manufacturing plant. RTLS-capable products are used in number of...

Implementing Campus Indoor Location Tracking System

Digital electronic maps are used to track the location in outdoor and indoor environment. Most of electronic maps are useful for outdoor environment. There is no efficiency technology for search the indoor location. Many smart-phones are used to track the location by electronic map. The electronic maps may be the Google map, GPS navigation, waze and offline GPS maps. These are only useful for outdoor environment. Indoor based location tracking system can be implemented by using the Indoor Atlas Android SDK. It provides an API for developers to create application for inside building navigation. This app also useful for vision it have impaired people because the speech recognition for searched location and also include the event details in indoor based location tracking application. Using this app to find the shortest path for desired location.

An Efficient GPS and GSM Based Tracking System for Educational Institutions

Tracking systems are one of the most popular types of modern technologies worldwide for monitoring personal belongings in indoor and outdoor environments. Nowadays, the tracking systems are being utilized in various trends and purposes to trace the location of high-value items, such as jewelry, vehicles, cellular telephones, laptops, handbags, …etc.This scientific paper presents a novel positioning tracking system to monitor the faculty members' personal belongings at various university institutions of Egypt.The proposed Android-based tracking system consists of two important parts: locator and tracker. The locator includes a hardware device for locating the personal belongings of the faculty members. On the other hand, the tracker includes an Android app installed on the smartphone devices of the faculty members to enable them to remotely monitor and manage their personal belongings from anywhere at any time. The system evaluation process is carried out at two levels.At the 1 st-level, the viability of the proposed Android-based tracking system for use in real world environments is verified, and the result of this level shows that the proposed tracing system is broadly applicable for tracing the personal belongings of the faculty members in open environments. At the 2 nd-level, the accuracy of the proposed tracing system in locating the personal belongings of the faculty members is verified, and the result of this level indicates that the maximum error of the proposed tracing system in reading the location of the faculty members' personal belongings is in the allowed global scope.

Real Time Indoor Tracking System using Smartphones and Wi-Fi Technology

Nowadays with the dispersion of wireless networks, smartphones and diverse related services, different localization techniques have been developed. Global Positioning System (GPS) has a high rate of accuracy for outdoor localization but the signal is not available inside of buildings. Also other existing methods for indoor localization have low accuracy. In addition, they use fixed infrastructure support. In this paper, we present a novel system for indoor localization. The solution proposed in this paper makes use of commonly available Wi-Fi networks and runs on ordinary tablet ,smartphones without any additional hardware installation. It comprises two steps i) Steps Calibration. ii) Navigation stage. The calibration step creates a " Wi-Fi fingerprints " for each room of floor. It minimizes the calibration time via waypoints. The navigation stage matches with waypoints and displays the path for user for source to destination and also enables the low consumption of smartphone battery for localization