Radio-based human tracking for large indoor environments using distributed centroid location estimation

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems, IDAACS 2013

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 442-449

  Fink, Andreas ^a   Beikirch, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centroid Localization; Distributed Computing; Human Tracking; Received Signal Strength

Indexed keywords

CENTROID LOCALIZATION; DISTRIBUTED COLLECTIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS; HUMAN TRACKING; LOCAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; SENSOR DATA COLLECTIONS; WEIGHTED CENTROID LOCALIZATIONS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMPRESSION; ESTIMATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RSS; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84892637843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IDAACS.2013.6662725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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