E-textiles for autonomous location awareness

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 367-379

  Chandra, Madhup ^b   Jones, Mark T ^a,c   Martin, Thomas L ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b 302 Whittemore Hall ^*  (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context awareness; E textiles; Electronic textiles; Location awareness; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT AWARENESS; ELECTRONIC TEXTILES; LOCATION AWARENESS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRACKING (POSITION); TRANSCEIVERS;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

EID: 33847691946     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.51     Document Type: Article

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