Edips: An easy to deploy indoor positioning system to support loosely coupled mobile work

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 365-376

  Vera, Rodrigo ^a   Ochoa, Sergio F ^a   Aldunate, Roberto G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE TEMUCO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Indoor Positioning System; Loosely coupled mobile work; Nomadic users; User location estimation

Indexed keywords

INDOOR POSITIONING; INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; INDOOR/OUTDOOR; LOCATION ACCURACY; LOOSELY COUPLED MOBILE WORK; MOBILE WORK; NOMADIC USERS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; POSITIONING SYSTEM; POTENTIAL COLLABORATORS; REAL-TIME OPERATION; USER LOCATION ESTIMATION;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 79957988168     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-010-0357-x     Document Type: Article

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