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CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
LANDMARC: Indoor Location Sensing Using Active RFID
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
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ICDCSW '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
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PERCOM '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04)
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WMTE '04 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE'04)
PAWS: Personal Action Wireless Sensor
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
LuxTrace: indoor positioning using building illumination
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
The GETA sandals: a footprint location tracking system
LoCA'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Location- and Context-Awareness
Empirical evaluation of signal-strength fingerprint positioning in wireless LANs
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Experimental analysis of IEEE 802.15.4a CSS ranging and its implications
Computer Communications
Design and Implementation of HEMS Based on RFID and OSGi
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Outdoor exit detection using combined techniques to increase GPS efficiency
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
International Journal of Electronic Government Research
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Supply chain product visibility: Methods, systems and impacts
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Augmented reality annotations to assist persons with Alzheimers and their caregivers
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Hi-index | 12.06 |
Location awareness is a key issue to improve the development of autonomous entities that are embedded into ubiquitous computing environments. GPS seems to be the best solution to develop outdoor location systems, but the performance of these systems is not good enough to locate objects or humans within indoor environments, mainly if accuracy and precision are required. In this article we propose the use of a cheap and reliable technology as RFID to develop a passive RFID-based indoor location system that is able to accurately locate autonomous entities, such as robots and people, within a defined surface. This system is applied to solve the robot tracking problem. We include the evaluation of the proposal by comparing our system technology performance with other alternatives built on different technologies (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, IrDA, ultrasound, etc.). We have also performed a location awareness proof concept test to analyze the viability of the approach.