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Indoor Location-Based Services

Prerequisites and Foundations

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  • © 2014

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  • Concise coverage of classical methods and new developments
  • Collects results from isolated domains including geometry, artificial intelligence, statistics, cooperative algorithms, and distributed systems
  • Topics covered range from basic positioning techniques to advanced features like event detection, simultaneous localization and mapping, and privacy aspects
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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This book delivers concise coverage of classical methods and new developments related to indoor location-based services. It collects results from isolated domains including geometry, artificial intelligence, statistics, cooperative algorithms, and distributed systems and thus provides an accessible overview of fundamental methods and technologies. This makes it an ideal starting point for researchers, students, and professionals in pervasive computing.

Location-based services are services using the location of a mobile computing device as their primary input. While such services are fairly easy to implement outside buildings thanks to accessible global positioning systems and high-quality environmental information, the situation inside buildings is fundamentally different. In general, there is no simple way of determining the position of a moving target inside a building without an additional dedicated infrastructure.

The book’s structure is learning oriented, starting witha short introduction to wireless communication systems and basic positioning techniques and ending with advanced features like event detection, simultaneous localization and mapping, and privacy aspects. Readers who are not familiar with the individual topics will be able to work through the book from start to finish. At the same time all chapters are self-contained to support readers who are already familiar with some of the content and only want to pick selected topics that are of particular interest.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Martin Werner

About the author

Martin Werner has been working as a research scientist in the Mobile and Distributed Systems Group at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich since 2009. His main research interests range from mobile services to indoor location-based services, context-aware and ubiquitous computing, mobile communications, and security and privacy in online networks.

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