iParking: An intelligent indoor location-based smartphone parking service

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 14612-14629

  Liu, Jingbin ^a   Chen, Ruizhi ^a   Chen, Yuwei ^a   Pei, Ling ^a   Chen, Liang ^a  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Connected car; Indoor LBS; Intelligent parking systems; Multi sensor fusion; Smartphone intelligent services

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CONNECTED CAR; INDOOR LBS; INTELLIGENT SERVICES; MULTI-SENSOR FUSION; PARKING SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; SENSORS; SHOPPING CENTERS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

ARTICLE; MICROCOMPUTER; MOBILE PHONE; MOTOR VEHICLE;

CELLULAR PHONE; MICROCOMPUTERS; MOTOR VEHICLES;

EID: 84870502001     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s121114612     Document Type: Article

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