Deployment strategies and performance evaluation of a virtual-tag-enabled indoor location sensing approach

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 574-583

  Li, Nan ^a   Li, Shuai ^a   Becerik Gerber, Burcin ^a   Calis, Gulben ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Deployment strategies; Indoor location sensing (ILS); K nearest neighbors (KNN); Mobile targets; Performance evaluation; Radio frequency identification (RFID); Robustness; Stationary targets; Virtual tags

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY; INDOOR LOCATION SENSING (ILS); K NEAREST NEIGHBOR (KNN); MOBILE TARGETS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; STATIONARY TARGETS; VIRTUAL TAGS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84878357436     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000161     Document Type: Article

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