Delay-Tolerant positioning for location-based logging with mobile devices

  • Authors:
  • André Coelho;Filipe Meneses;Rui José

  • Affiliations:
  • Centro Algoritmi, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal;Centro Algoritmi, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal;Centro Algoritmi, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • UCAmI'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore the viability and possible limitations of a delay-tolerant positioning process for location-based logging. Instead of estimating the device position on the device, a delay-tolerant technique stores the radio and Wi-Fi data needed to calculate that position, sends it to a server when appropriate, and it is the server that will calculate the position. This is very suitable for location logging because it supports the generation of frequent position registers without incurring in high communication and energy costs. We have conducted a controlled experiment to assess the accuracy of this technique and the results suggest that the accuracy of the positions calculated on the server using this technique is the same as those that can be obtained by calculating the position directly on the device.