Paper Info
Title
Hybrid Localization for Ubiquitous Services
Abstract
The business sector is exploring the locations and movements information of mobile users with the purpose to improve the business operations and increase the sales volume. In this scenario, the location systems should be able of tracking the mobile users in any place they move to, both indoor and outdoor scenarios. In this paper, we propose a hybrid location approach designed to support the choice and the switching between different positioning technologies supported by the mobile device and available in the surrounding environment, in a dynamic and transparent way during the user movement. It combines signal strength-based fingerprinting techniques for indoor positioning together with GPS for the outdoor localization, and performs opportunistic technology switching according to a threshold based mechanism. The resulting solution is able to leverage the different features of the location technologies, in order to provide ubiquitous services across indoor and outdoor scenarios, as well as to minimize power consumption of the mobile device.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/UIC-ATC.2013.17
UIC/ATC
Keywords
Field
DocType
business operation,hybrid location approach,location system,mobile user,ubiquitous services,mobile device,outdoor scenario,outdoor localization,hybrid localization,business sector,location technology,indoor positioning,mobile computing,global positioning system
Mobile computing,Hybrid positioning system,Wireless,Computer science,Business operations,Computer network,Location-based service,Mobile device,Global Positioning System,Bluetooth,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Massimo Ficco165747.88
Rocco Aversa260256.19