Pocket PC Beacons: Wi-Fi based human tracking and following

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 970-974

  Arora, Ankit ^a   Ferworn, Alexander ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

802.11x Wi Fi; Human Following; Pocket PC; Wheelchair

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE CONSOLES;

HUMAN FOLLOWING; POCKET PC; WHEELCHAIR; WI-FI ANTENNA;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33644528407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1066902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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