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Indoor Location Technology Opens New Worlds: Micro-Geography
It's important to solve indoor positioning problems, because by 2005 there will be 184 million U.S. wireless subscribers (Jupiter Research, 2001). Moreover, according to the National Emergency Number Association, more than 30 percent of 911 calls in the United States originate from mobile phones - a number expected to soon...
Tags: Positioning, Indoor Location Technology, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2004-10-20

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A Study of Frequency Interference and Indoor Location Sensing With 802.11b and Bluetooth Technologies
Several technologies such as infrared sensing, radio frequency, ultrasonic and RFIDs have been proposed for indoor location sensing. Each of these methods has its own merits and shortcomings. Recently there has been an increase in the use of commodity wireless technologies like 802.11 or Bluetooth for indoor location positioning. Since...
Tags: IEEE 802.11, IEEE, Bluetooth, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
White papers 2005-04-08
A Study of Bluetooth Propagation Using Accurate Indoor Location Mapping
The ubiquitous computing community has widely researched the use of 802.11 for the purpose of location inference. Meanwhile, Bluetooth is increasingly widely deployed due to its low power consumption and cost. This paper describes a study of Bluetooth radio propagation using an accurate indoor location system to conduct fine-grained signal...
Tags: Propagation, Ubiquitous Computing, Springer Science+Business Media, Ubiquitous Computing Community, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
White papers 2005-07-19
Accurate GSM Indoor Localization
Accurate indoor localization has long been an objective of the ubiquitous computing research community, and numerous indoor localization solutions based on 802.11, Bluetooth, ultrasound and infrared technologies have been proposed. This paper presents the first accurate GSM indoor localization system that achieves median accuracy of 5 meters in large multi-floor...
Tags: Springer Science+Business Media, GSM, Indoor Localization, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
White papers 2005-07-19
In-Building Location Using Bluetooth
This paper presents a new system for indoor location of a mobile device based on bluetooth technology. Bluetooth access points of a network are used for the location system and to access the network. Location is made by means of the signal strength received from those access points. The signal...
Tags: Location, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
White papers 2005-05-02
Accuracy Characterization for Metropolitan-Scale Wi-Fi Localization
Location systems have long been identified as an important component of emerging mobile applications. Most research on location systems has focused on precise location in indoor environments. However, many location applications (for example, location-aware web search) become interesting only when the underlying location system is available ubiquitously and is not...
Tags: Positioning, University Of California, Branding, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Marketing
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On Performance of SCH-OFDMA-CDM in Frequency Selective Indoor Environment
Performance of Sub Carrier Hopped Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Code Division Multiplexing (SCH-OFDMA-CDM) is analyzed and compared against its non hopping counterpart (OFDMA-CDM) in frequency selective indoor environment. The system model is developed and simulation results for realistic scenarios are presented. These provide guidelines for configuring the system and...
Tags: Performance, Environment, Scheme, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers
WiMAX Deployments With Self-Installable Indoor Terminals
The ability to support the deployment of indoor customer-installable end-user terminals can provide operators significant cost savings that can greatly enhance the business case for a WiMAX fixed broadband wireless network. This paper will provide some insights as to the trade-offs that need to be considered and offer some deployment...
Tags: WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless
White papers 2005-06-01
Quantization and Its Effects on OFDM Concepts for Wireless Indoor Applications
This paper discusses some fundamental aspects of the implementation of an OFDM modem for wireless indoor applications. One basic component of common OFDM systems is the computation of the DFT. Therefore, some efficient FFT algorithms like the Split-Radix and the Winograd-FFT algorithm have been implemented and their applicability for these...
Tags: Algorithm, OFDM, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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Hockey Pro 2006 (msi)
TruStorm Hockey Pro 2006 is the only software tool specifically designed for field and indoor Hockey. With a familiar and easy to use interface combined with features for both field and indoor Hockey. Hockey Pro 2006 gives any coach or player at whatever level of computing skill the edge. It...
Tags: TruStorm Hockey Pro 2006, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management
Software downloads 2007-06-06
College Expands Educational Horizons Wirelessly
Founded in 1836, Emory and Henry is the oldest college in southwest Virginia. The company's challenge was to attract new students to the campus through technological leadership; use technology to help facilitate "Active learning" on campus, including outdoor classes; easily manage the wireless network; and mitigate network security risks. A...
Tags: College, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Campus, Cisco Unified Wireless Network, Networking, Network Security, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Security
Case studies 2007-08-01
How to Choose the Right Location Solution
Location solutions have received more attention over the past few years as technology matures and more deployments flourish. Businesses are increasingly interested in leveraging location information on assets and people to streamline their business processes. However, business processes are very specific to each company, and as a result it has...
Tags: Location Solution, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2007-04-01
The tale of the tape: 802.11g vs. 802.11b
Wireless networking has been working its way into themainstream corporate environment for several years. A variety of technologieshave been tried out by the market, with several being kicked to the curb. (Doesanybody remember HomeRF?) To date, the three technologies still in productionare 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g. While 802.11a is slowly...
Tags: indoor, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11g, James McPherson, wireless networking
Technical articles 2004-08-19
After Cisco, Vodafone thinking about femtocells
Vodafone is conducting trials for 3G mobile base stations based on the technology of femtocells. An excerpt from News.com: A spokesperson for Vodafone said on Friday that Vodafone had said only that it was "looking into the technology," and had no fixed plans for its deployment....
Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Cisco Systems Inc., Technology, Telephony, 3G, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-27
Intel Centrino Mobile Technology Powers New Interactive Campus
The ISF Academy was founded in 2002 by leading figures in Hong Kong's education and technology sectors. The school was designed to be in line with 21st-century educational models from day one. Challenges to do this included ensuring "anytime, anywhere learning", not just tied to desktop PCs, a flexible use...
Tags: Mobile, Intel Centrino, Wireless Networking, Intel Corp., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
Case studies
Multi-Channel Link-Level Measurements in 802.11 Mesh Networks
Several routing protocols for IEEE 802.11 mesh networks that operate at multiple RF channels have been described before. However, only few facts about link-level characteristics in multi-channel environments have been published. This paper presents observations, made in an indoor testbed, about the impact of channel-assignment on the quality of links....
Tags: IEEE 802.11, Network, Radio, Association For Computing Machinery, Mesh Networking, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Wireless, Marketing
White papers 2006-04-07
Link Assessment in an Indoor 802.11 Network
This paper presents the empirical results and analysis of a link variability study for an indoor, stationary 802.11 network subject to external interference. The objective is to characterize the relationships between the packet loss rate on a link and the transmitter-receiver distance, the SNR as reported by the 802.11 card,...
Tags: IEEE 802.11, NIST, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
White papers 2006-03-02
Implementing Location tracking
im thinking of implementing an indoor wireless location tracking for my final year project. i intend to use LWAPs for triangulation and WCS and WLC for the implementation. Is this a possible solution? and is there anything that i should take note of?ConsiderationsSome things you may want to consider:* The...
Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, domchua@...
Discussion threads 2006-09-26
VPN
I have an 5 computer on "A" location and 5 computer on "B" location.Both Location are connected to internet with broadband connection using a static ip address.BOTH location has a ADSL modem.I want to access "A" location Computer form "B" location via
Tags: networking, vpn, gsapillai@..., computer
Discussion threads 2006-11-07
Supporting Location-Based Conditions in Access Control Policies
Location-Based Access Control LBAC techniques allow taking users' physical location into account when determining their access privileges. This paper presents an approach to LBAC aimed at integrating location-based conditions along with a generic access control model, so that a requestor can be granted or denied access by checking her location...
Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Access Control, Location, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
White papers 2006-03-21
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