Bluebot: Asset tracking via robotic location crawling

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1067-1077

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

^a Kiyon Inc   (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

ALGORITHMS; ASSET MANAGEMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; WI-FI;

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

ROBOTICS;

EID: 40949110054     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.01.041     Document Type: Article

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