BlueBot: Asset tracking via robotic location crawling

Proceedings - International Conference on Pervasive Services, ICPS '05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 117-126

  Patil, Abhishek ^a   Munson, Jonathan ^b   Wood, David ^b   Cole, Alan ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset Tracking; Automatic Location Sensing; RFID; Wi Fi Location Positioning

Indexed keywords

ASSET TRACKING; AUTOMATIC LOCATION SENSING; RFID; WI-FI LOCATION POSITIONING;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33745725713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PERSER.2005.1506400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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