DocumentCode
2005599
Title
Location based services with personal area network for community and tourism applications
Author
Ros, M. ; D´Souza, M. ; Postula, A. ; MacColl, I.
Author_Institution
Sch. of ECTE, Univ. of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
fYear
2011
fDate
14-16 Nov. 2011
Firstpage
432
Lastpage
437
Abstract
The Infopoint Explorer is an outdoor wireless personal area network for location-based services that allows users to access locality information interactively using mobile computing devices such as PDAs and smartphones. The Infopoint explorer was used to study the limitations imposed by inexpensive and popular wireless technologies such as Bluetooth for outdoor location-based services. The Infopoint Explorer functioned as a multimedia guidebook that allowed access to location-specific information using wireless Infopoints. The Infopoints detect and attempt to transfer multimedia content to nearby mobile computing devices using Bluetooth connectivity. An adaptive Bluetooth Inquiry Access Code algorithm was developed to reduce the time taken for the Infopoint to detect nearby devices. The Infopoint was deployed for a four-month trial.
Keywords
Bluetooth; mobile computing; multimedia communication; personal area networks; Bluetooth; Bluetooth connectivity; Infopoint Explorer; PDA; adaptive Bluetooth inquiry access code algorithm; community applications; location-specific information; mobile computing devices; multimedia content; multimedia guidebook; outdoor-location-based services; outdoor-wireless personal area network; smartphones; tourism applications; wireless Infopoints; Bluetooth Wireless Network; Location-Based Services; On-Demand Context-Aware Multimedia;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Wireless Mobile and Computing (CCWMC 2011), IET International Communication Conference on
Conference_Location
Shanghai
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/cp.2011.0924
Filename
6194879
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