Hand-grip and body-loss impact on RSS measurements for localization of mass market devices

2011 International Conference on Localization and GNSS, ICL-GNSS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 58-63

  Della Rosa, Francescantonio ^a   Xu, Li ^a   Nurmi, Jari ^a   Pelosi, Mauro ^c   Laoudias, Christos ^b   Terrezza, Amerigo ^d  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d Interactive Media SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body Loss; Hand Grip; RSS; WLAN

Indexed keywords

BODY-LOSS; HAND-GRIP; HUMAN BODIES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MASS MARKET DEVICES; POSITIONING ACCURACY; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS; WLAN;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE DEVICES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 80051960181     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2011.5955274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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