Static and dynamic performance evaluation of a commercially-available ultra wideband tracking system

Automation in Construction

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 519-530

  Saidi, Kamel S ^a   Teizer, Jochen ^b   Franaszek, Marek ^a   Lytle, Alan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction; Localization; Monitoring; Productivity; Real time; Resource allocation; RFID; Safety; Tracking; Ultra wideband; UWB; Wireless

Indexed keywords

LOCALIZATION; REAL-TIME; RFID; SAFETY; TRACKING; UWB; WIRELESS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; NAVIGATION; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; TARGET TRACKING;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 79957489773     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2010.11.018     Document Type: Article

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