Contextual Geolocation: a Specialized Application for Improving Indoor Location Awareness in Wireless Local Area Networks

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  • James R. Beal
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The future of computing includes "adaptive" menu structures for applications that will automatically select content and navigation options – as desired – based upon the location of the user. With wireless systems, location awareness improves networking efficiency and helps alleviate the notoriously slow process of inputting information into handheld computers. For example, a security guard could have a wireless device that automatically presents him with a list of authorized occupants or equipment as he walks toward a specific room. Along with speech recognition technology, location-based services are revolutionizing the capabilities and ease of use of mobile devices. In order for location-based services to be offered consistently to consumers, a reliable indoor wireless geolocation infrastructure must exist. This paper describes a contextual geolocation application using RF fingerprinting and an intuitive indoor geographic information system for improving indoor location awareness in wireless local area networks.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003