Tiletrack: Capacitive human tracking using floor tiles

7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Valtonen, Miika ^a   Mäentausta, Jaakko ^a   Vanhala, Jukka ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Capacitive measurement; Electric field; Human tracking; Pervasive positioning; Pervasive tracking; Ubiquitous locatio systems

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE MEASUREMENT; HUMAN TRACKING; PERVASIVE POSITIONING; PERVASIVE TRACKING; UBIQUITOUS LOCATIO SYSTEMS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLOORS; TARGET TRACKING;

OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 70349330831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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