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Using Bluetooth for Indoor User Positioning and Informing

Using Bluetooth for Indoor User Positioning and Informing
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Author(s): John Garofalakis (University of Patras, Greece)and Christos Mettouris (University of Patras, Greece)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 20
Source title: Auto-Identification and Ubiquitous Computing Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Judith Symonds (AUT University, New Zealand), John Ayoade (American University of Nigeria, Nigeria)and David Parry (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-298-5.ch002

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Abstract

The continuous evolution of wireless technologies has made them ideal for use in many different applications, including user positioning. Until now, user positioning applications were focused mainly on providing users with exact location information. This makes them computational heavy while often demanding specialized software and hardware from mobile devices. In this chapter, we present a new user positioning application. The application is intended for use with m-commerce by sending informative and advertising messages to the users after locating their position indoors. The application is based exclusively on Bluetooth. The positioning method we use, while efficient, is nevertheless simple. The m-commerce based messages can be received without additional software or hardware installed. After discussing the available technologies and methods for implementing indoor user positioning applications, we shall focus on implementation issues, as well as the evaluation of our application after testing it. Finally, conclusions are extracted and future work is proposed.

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