Landmarke: An ad hoc deployable ubicomp infrastructure to support indoor navigation of firefighters

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1025-1038

  Ramirez, Leonardo ^a,b   Dyrks, Tobias ^b   Gerwinski, Jan ^b   Betz, Matthias ^a   Scholz, Markus ^c   Wulf, Volker ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ad hoc deployment; Firefighting; Human computer interaction; Indoor navigation; Mobile ad hoc network; Navigation; Orientation; Sensor networks; Ubiquitous computing; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

AD HOC DEPLOYMENT; DESIGN PROCESS; FIREFIGHTING; INDOOR NAVIGATION; SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGY; UBICOMP; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; SENSOR NETWORKS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 84871752222     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-011-0462-5     Document Type: Article

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