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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"location tracking"”.
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Transforming waste management systems through location tracking and data sharing
This dissertation investigates how location tracking technologies can transform municipal solid waste management in smart cities. While waste is often tracked in aggregate as it flows between and through handling facilities, there have been few attempts to follow individual trash items …
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Indoor Location Tracking and Orientation Estimation Using a Particle Filter, INS, and RSSI
… of monitoring patient vitals and giving accurate location estimations allow for a less intrusive environment for nursing home patients.</p> <p>This project explores the usage of using received signal strength indication (RSSI) in conjunction with an inertial navigation system (INS) to provide …
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Evaluating the Potential of Using Passive RFID Technology as a Real Time Location Tracking System to Assist an Individual with a Visual Impairment
… [RFID] Technology as basis for a Real Time Location Tracking System [RTLTS] to assist an individual with a visual impairment participating in physical activities, such as basketball. While RTLTSs exist based upon other technologies, Passive RFID Technology had yet to be examined for its …
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Method and device for the detection and characterization of inhomogeneities of the prostate : the Quantitative Digital Rectal Exam (QDRE)
… measures the relative compliance at discrete locations on the posterior surface of the prostate. The Test Head of the QDRE indents the prostate and measures the pressure distribution across a rigid disk using an matrix of pressure transducers. The position of the Test Head is tracked by the …
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Use of location data for the surveillance, analysis, and optimization of clinical processes
Location tracking systems in healthcare produce a wealth of data applicable across many aspects of care and management. However, since dedicated location tracking systems, such as the oft mentioned RFID tracking system, are still sparsely deployed, a number of other data sources may be utilized to …
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Construction Industry Hesitation in Accepting Wearable Sensing Devices to Enhance Worker
… safety devices, a biometric sensor, and a location tracking system. Device acceptance was analyzed from the perspective of the user (construction field labor) and company decision makers (construction managers). A modified unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model was …
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A technical feasibility study of an automated evaluation system for assessing the care needs of residents living in Australian residential aged care facilities
… accuracies (between 88% and 100%), superior location tracking capability (94.75%) and activities of daily living inference capability over similar studies. Opportunities for further improvements of this WSN include: • Fine tuning the detection accuracy of Passive Infra-red (PIR) motion …
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Fast and Scalable Structure-from-Motion for High-precision Mobile Augmented Reality Systems
… primarily rely on Radio Frequency (RF) based location tracking technologies (e.g., Global Positioning Systems or Wireless Local Area Networks), which typically do not provide sufficient precision in RF-denied areas or require additional hardware and custom mobile devices. To remove the …
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An intelligent home using wireless location networks and real time messaging for patients with heart failure
… by people suffering from heart failure. Wireless location networks in combination with application software are used to monitor health aspects of the patient's lifestyle. The critical metrics obtained from this infrastructure can help drive patient and physician analysis and provide feedback and …
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Empirical Investigations Into The Causal Impact Of Healthcare Provider Behavior On Patient Care
… methods. In chapter one, we utilize infrared location tracking data to study the impact of physical facility layout on how service workers organize their tasks. We focus on the hospital emergency department as a service setting where nurses (servers) have discretion over how they interact with …
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The Design and Modeling of Ultra-Wideband Position-Location Networks
… possess the ability to fuse accurate position-location with low-data rate communication, and provide covertness for tactical applications and robustness in dense multipath propagation environments. These features can be leveraged in the design wireless ad hoc position-location networks …
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Automated safety analysis of construction site activities using spatio-temporal data
… on pro-active safety utilizing radio-frequency location tracking (Ultra Wideband) and real-time three-dimensional (3D) immersive data visualization technologies. The objective of the research is to create a model that can automatically analyze the spatio-temporal data of the main construction …
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Distilling Mobile Privacy Requirements from Qualitative Data
… distinctly separate qualitative dataset from a location-tracking study is used, in both cases, the empirical studies relate to privacy issues faced by real users observed in their mobile environment.
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Surveillance: From Solutions to New Problems
… dissertation evaluates user defenses in the webtracking context to rigorously evaluate the efficacy of these defenses using both traditional tracking mechanisms approaches and newer targeted ad measurements. We find that that many existing recommended defenses are not effective, particularly …
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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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Balancing privacy needs with location sharing in mobile computing
… interaction. As more phones come equipped with location tracking capabilities, capable of collecting and distributing personal information (including location) of their users, user control of location information and privacy for that matter, has become an important research issue. This research …
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The use of a user-centric smart mobile application prototype for supporting safety and security in a city: a design science method
… signals to comembers with the use of GPS live location tracking. The research shows participants are willing to adopt the use of the mobile application prototype, given there is substantial community buy-in, and the functionalities in the app are easy to use and quickly accessible. The study …
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Utilizing automatically collected smart card data to enhance travel demand surveys
… sources of data from fare collection, vehicle location, and passenger counting systems to improve the understanding of their customers' detailed geographic and temporal travel behavior as well as frequency of usage, and travel pattern variation at a much larger scale than is possible with …
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Redeem with Privacy (RwP): Privacy protection framework for Geo-social commerce
… networks where people interact based on their location and relationship. These applications have gained popularity due to their innovative features. However, there are numerous privacy risks of using GSNs. Users may expose their mobility history to unknown third parties since many of these …
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Smart technologies and beyond: exploring how a smart band can assist in monitoring children’s independent mobility & well-being
… appropriate for monitoring a child’s vital and tracking a child’s location. This aspect is being explored by other researchers which are yet to find a viable solution. This work focuses on providing a solution that would consider using the Internet of Things for measuring and improving …
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