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19 Jul 2006

Indoor location tracking projects

Published in Geolocation  |  3 Comments

SlashGeo picked up on a recent Geowanking mailing list discussion of indoor location tracking options. I decided to pull all of the responses together into a single list for easy clickage.

I would also suggest checking out and/or subscribing to bookmark lists like http://del.icio.us/tag/geolocation+wifi.

Wifi Positioning Technologies

PlaceLab
Intel R&D lab, have a large number of papers, software, and dbs on location using wifi and other techniques
Loki
Commercial company (part of Skyhook Wireless) that has a Windows client
Navizon
another commercial option, GPS/GSM/Wifi and clients for variety of
mobile devices
Plazes
social network using geolocation techniques
Herecast
Open infrastructure with a community built database
Microsoft Research RADAR
An In-Building RF-Based User Location and Tracking System. There is a package for people who may beinterested in using RADAR and that the package includes source code. It should be easy to obtain coming from a university.
HawkTour: A Mobile, Context-Aware Tour Guide System
HawkTour, installed on a TabletPC, allows visitors to tour the IIT main campus and learn about the university including its world-renowned architecture, excellent academic programs, and student life.
Location Estimation for Activity Recognition
University of Washington video where Dieter Fox illustrates how Bayesian filtering can be applied to estimate the location of a person using sensors such as GPS, infrared, or WiFi.
Ekahau
this might be the most popular WiFi positioning system
PanGo Locator
Wi-Fi-based, active RFID wireless asset tracking solution
WhereNet
Using TDOA measurement rather than Signal Strength, hence
the standard 802.11 AP and NIC can not be used.
WPI Precision Indoor/Outdoor Personnel Location Project
The overall goal of this project is to protect the lives of emergency responders and to enhance their ability to accomplish their missions through research and development of systems for personnel location and tracking, physiological status monitor

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  1. Allan Doyle says:

    July 19th, 2006 at 1:29 pm (#)

    Not Wifi, but indoors - http://www.rosum.com/

    Thanks for the HawkTour link, that’s directly relevant to one of my projects - http://museum.mit.edu/mwow

    Also of interest at MIT - http://ispots.mit.edu/ for WiFi positioning and research.

  2. Tom Printy says:

    July 19th, 2006 at 2:46 pm (#)

    THANK YOU! I was talking to somebody at barcamp this weekend about using wifi for location! I knew of loki but didn’t know of any open ones. This is an awesome list, thanks for putting it together!

  3. Mateusz Loskot says:

    July 22nd, 2006 at 3:20 pm (#)

    Andrew, thanks for this summary from the geowanking list. It should be helpful for anyone interested in the subject. Next, I’d wish to find a summary or comparison of WiFi location techniques and applications mentioned in those listed materials.

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