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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Location awareness"”.
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Electronic Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness
… which numerous applications can be developed. Location awareness is one such application that can reap the benefits of e-textiles such that it can be widely deployed at a reasonable cost for assisting visually impaired people or to provide navigational help during emergency situations. This …
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Location awareness in a mountain rescue domain
The notion of location awareness in a Mountain Rescue domain is critical for the mission coordinator of a Mountain Rescue Team who tries to organize the team and make informed decisions for all its members. The knowledge of location of each member of the team while they are on a mission, could be …
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Android wi-fi location awareness and data inference heuristic.
… achieve their goals or improve performance. The location of the device is one of the most important pieces of context information. Location awareness makes certain applications possible, e.g., recommending nearby businesses and tracking estimated routes, and greatly improves the performance of …
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Construction crew productivity monitoring supported by location awareness technologies
… acquisition, the development of technologies for location awareness provides significant potential for improving the manual processes of collecting construction field data and, as a result, construction decisions can be made in a timely manner which can improve productivity, saving time and money …
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Towards location-awareness in next generation wireless networks : a new approach based on channel state information
Location-awareness in next generation wireless networks will be a key enabler for numerous emerging applications. Recently, a novel approach to localization based on soft information (SI), exploiting all positional information inherent in measurement and contextual data, has been proposed. This …
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Multiple Target Tracking in Experimental Multistatic MIMO mmWave Radar Sensor Networks
Location awareness of non-collaborative targets within 5G and beyond systems is becoming ever more prominent. This paper presents a passive, hardware-agnostic multiple target tracking (MTT) system that addresses the shortcomings in current wireless position technology and is capable of seamlessly …
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Location Verification for Spoofing Detection in Non-Terrestrial Networks
Reliable location awareness is essential for the development of new services and applications in non-terrestrial networks (NTN). The ability of malicious users to report false location information poses a significant threat to NTN performance. This threat introduces the need for a flexible and …
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Network localization and navigation : theoretical framework, efficient operation, and security assurance
… safety, and military sectors. Achieving such location awareness by conventional techniques is challenging in harsh environments with limited infrastructures, e.g., indoors, in urban canyons, and on battlefields. This thesis proposes network localization and navigation (NLN), a new paradigm in …
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Will you help me : enhancing personal safety and security utilizing mobile phones
… from their caregivers. This system applies location awareness (GPS), awareness of social activities (communication activity and proximity with close peers,) and peer-to-peer data communication as its core technologies. There are three sub-components that are implemented the system: First …
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Fundamental limits of wideband localization
Location-awareness is essential for many wireless network applications. However, determining nodes' positions precisely is a challenging task, especially in harsh multipath propagation environments. To address this problem, wide bandwidth signals are envisioned to be used in future localization …
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Location aware data aggregation for efficient message dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
… thesis is the LA mechanism - an intelligent, locationaware data aggregation mechanism for real-time observation, estimation and efficient dissemination of messages in VANETs. The proposed mechanism is based on a generic modelling approach which makes it applicable to any type of VANET …
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Distributed Localization for Wireless Distributed Networks in Indoor Environments
Positioning systems enable location-awareness for mobile devices, computers, and even tactical radios. From the collected location information, location-based services can be realized. One type of positioning system is based on location fingerprints. Unlike the conventional positioning techniques …
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Scalable wide area ad-hoc networking
… is limited. This thesis demonstrates that location awareness can greatly aid in MANET routing and proposes an enhancement to location management algorithm used by the Terminodes System. This thesis makes use of geographic packet forwarding, geocasting and virtual home area concepts. It …
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Support infrastructures for multimedia services with guaranteed continuity and QoS
… and their handoff implementations (handoff awareness), of service quality requirements and handoff-related quality degradations (QoS awareness), and of network topology and resources available in current/future localities (location awareness). The design and implementation of the all main …
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Reliable location sensing through multi-sensor fusion, dynamic weighting, and confidence mapping
… to the user, they must maintain the location of users, devices, and resources within the room. Real-world systems are dynamic and constantly changing, with mobile people and devices. Current location sensing trends within pervasive systems focus on heterogeneous and hybrid systems …
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An Optimized Alert System Based on Geospatial Location Data
… only half of the battle. The use of geospatial location is missing from alert systems utilized at university campuses across the United States. Our research included the design and implementation of a mobile application addition to our campus notification system. This addition is complete with …
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Understanding and Designing for Perceptions of Trust in Rideshare Programs
… are connected on the go and make use of GPS for location awareness to plan their rides instantaneously. Our social software application is easy and intuitive to use, helps users find trusted rideshares and reduces the carbon footprint of the individual.
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Intelligent, Pervasive and Context-Aware Promotion Delivery Framework for Wireless Mobile Devices
… [11], [12]. Unique features such as portability, location-awareness and personalization make mobile devices effective tools for targeted advertising. Several mobile marketing frameworks have been designed that deliver promotions based on location information and user preferences [3], [4], [5]. …
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Action path : a location-based tool for civic reflection and engagement
… platform called Action Path, which uses location-awareness in the form of geo-fences along with push notifications to prompt users to respond to one-item surveys dotting their urban landscape. Interviews with users suggest Action Path might help people see their communities as filled with …
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Predicting Future Locations and Arrival Times of Individuals
… two objectives: a) to predict people's future locations, and b) to predict when they will be at given locations. Current location-based applications react to the user's current location. The progression from location-awareness to location-prediction can enable the next generation of proactive, …
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