LANDMARC: indoor location sensing using active RFID
Wireless Networks - Special issue: Pervasive computing and communications
QoS management in heterogeneous home networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Hybrid RFID-GPS Real-Time Location System for Human Resources: Development, Impacts and Perspectives
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Seamless Indoor/Outdoor Positioning Handover for Location-Based Services in Streamspin
MDM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Tenth International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware
Increasing Service Availability in a Wireless Home Network Environment
The Computer Journal
Indoor/outdoor pedestrian navigation with an embedded GPS/RFID/self-contained sensor system
ICAT'06 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Advances in Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence
A location-based personal task reminder for mobile users
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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RFID and GPS are the two technologies that receive significant attention in the field of indoor and outdoor location systems, respectively. In this research, the need of integrating multiple heterogeneous location systems is identified. We propose a hybrid system that combines both RFID and GPS technologies to achieve the goal of true end-to-end logistics management, by end-to-end we mean the journey of goods delivery may traverse across both indoor and outdoor regions. With our system, not only a manager can dispatch tasks for the deliverymen, but also the real-time location of a deliveryman can be tracked both indoors and outdoors. More importantly, the deliveryman with a mobile terminal can experience seamless positioning handover between outdoor and indoor environments. The usefulness of this logistics management application is verified through an experiment conducted in the campus environment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that implements RFID and GPS positioning handover in the application of end-to-end logistics management.