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Technical and Practical Aspects for Locating and Tracking Mobile Users within a Wireless Local Area Network
Joseph Ng

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Joseph Ng. "Technical and Practical Aspects for Locating and Tracking Mobile Users within a Wireless Local Area Network". Talk or presentation, 22, April, 2014.

Abstract
Indoor positioning technology or the technique for locating a mobile user is the base technology for indoor location-aware computing. In general, there are a large variety of location-based applications and services that rely on an accurate and stable location estimation system such as warehouse management, point-of-interest, infotainment, patient monitoring, mobile healthcare, and customer/consumer behavior analysis within an enclosed area like a shopping mall or exhibition center. Such location-based services play a crucial part in enabling e-commerce, and m-commerce, and eventually a critical part to bring the community to the era of ubiquitous/pervasive computing. In view of the heavy usage and progressively growing coverage of WLAN within the indoor environment, and the research studies on ways to do WLAN positioning and tracking, there is a need to investigate the feasibility of using the WLAN infrastructure to locate a mobile user as well as to find an efficient and effective way to track users’ behavior and provides location-based services in libraries, museums, shopping malls, and exhibition centers, and to ensure personal safety in hospitals and elderly centers. This talk will focus on the technical as well as the practical issues on Wi-Fi localization and compare our proposed method with some of the classical approaches in the literature. We will also discuss about how the proposed method is to be applied to an exhibition center in tracking users’ behavior. We are entering a new era of computing – the era of ubiquitous/pervasive computing where we can retrieve any data from any device using any network at anytime and anyplace, and this is the technology that will bring us a step closer to a more secure and more convenient ubiquitous computing society.

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    Joseph Ng. <a
    href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1069.html"
    ><i>Technical and Practical Aspects for Locating
    and Tracking Mobile Users within a Wireless Local Area
    Network</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  22,
    April, 2014.
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    Locating and Tracking Mobile Users within a Wireless Local
    Area Network". Talk or presentation,  22, April, 2014.
  • BibTeX
    @presentation{Ng14_TechnicalPracticalAspectsForLocatingTrackingMobileUsers,
        author = {Joseph Ng},
        title = {Technical and Practical Aspects for Locating and
                  Tracking Mobile Users within a Wireless Local Area
                  Network},
        day = {22},
        month = {April},
        year = {2014},
        abstract = {Indoor positioning technology or the technique for
                  locating a mobile user is the base technology for
                  indoor location-aware computing. In general, there
                  are a large variety of location-based applications
                  and services that rely on an accurate and stable
                  location estimation system such as warehouse
                  management, point-of-interest, infotainment,
                  patient monitoring, mobile healthcare, and
                  customer/consumer behavior analysis within an
                  enclosed area like a shopping mall or exhibition
                  center. Such location-based services play a
                  crucial part in enabling e-commerce, and
                  m-commerce, and eventually a critical part to
                  bring the community to the era of
                  ubiquitous/pervasive computing. In view of the
                  heavy usage and progressively growing coverage of
                  WLAN within the indoor environment, and the
                  research studies on ways to do WLAN positioning
                  and tracking, there is a need to investigate the
                  feasibility of using the WLAN infrastructure to
                  locate a mobile user as well as to find an
                  efficient and effective way to track users’
                  behavior and provides location-based services in
                  libraries, museums, shopping malls, and exhibition
                  centers, and to ensure personal safety in
                  hospitals and elderly centers. This talk will
                  focus on the technical as well as the practical
                  issues on Wi-Fi localization and compare our
                  proposed method with some of the classical
                  approaches in the literature. We will also discuss
                  about how the proposed method is to be applied to
                  an exhibition center in tracking users’
                  behavior. We are entering a new era of computing
                  – the era of ubiquitous/pervasive computing
                  where we can retrieve any data from any device
                  using any network at anytime and anyplace, and
                  this is the technology that will bring us a step
                  closer to a more secure and more convenient
                  ubiquitous computing society.},
        URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1069.html}
    }
    

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