Wi-Fi azimuth and position tracking using directional received signal strength measurements

2012 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications, SDF 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 72-77

  Seitz, Jochen ^a   Vaupel, Thorsten ^b   Haimerl, Stephan ^b   Boronat, Javier Gutiérrez ^b   Thielecke, Jörn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH ANGLES; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; ELECTRONIC COMPASS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MAGNETIC DISTURBANCE; MOBILE UNITS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS; SIGNAL SPACES; STANDARD POSITIONING SYSTEMS; VISUAL RANGE; WI-FI SIGNALS;

AUGMENTED REALITY; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; WI-FI;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84869402205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SDF.2012.6327911     Document Type: Conference Paper

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