An Architecture for Providing Java Applications with Indoor and Outdoor Hybrid Location Sensing

  • Authors:

  • Cristiano Di Flora;Massimo Ficco;Stefano Russo

  • Affiliations:

  • Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland;CINI-ITEM, Naples, Italy;Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

  • Venue:
  • SEUS-WCCIA '06 Proceedings of the The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems, and the Second International Workshop on Collaborative Computing, Integration, and Assurance (SEUS-WCCIA'06)
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a software architecture that enables either the combined and separate use of indoor and outdoor location-sensing technologies. The architecture has been implemented in compliance with the specifications of the Location API for Java. It is explicitly designed to provide applications with a hybrid location information, i.e., it allows to identify the terminal position among a known set of indoor or outdoor zones (e.g., building rooms, or predefined outdoor areas). The architecture relies on a lowcost, easily deployable and tunable indoor positioning infrastructure, and on existing outdoor location sensing infrastructures as well. In this paper we specifically describe the design and the implementation of a prototype based on Bluetooth and GPS technologies.