Broadband ultrasonic location systems for improved indoor positioning

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 536-547

  Hazas, Mike ^a   Hopper, Andy ^b,c,d,e,f  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c New Museums Site   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^f Institution of Electrical Engineers   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Location dependent sensitive; Pervasive and ubiquitous computing; Support services for mobile computing

Indexed keywords

LOCATION-DEPENDENT/SENSITIVE; PERVASIVE AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MOBILE COMPUTING;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MOBILE COMPUTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; ULTRASONICS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 33645663223     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2006.57     Document Type: Article

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