Title :
WIFI-Based Indoor Positioning System
Author :
Lashkari, Arash Habibi ; Parhizkar, Behrang ; Ngan, Mike Ng Ah
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract :
The easy access and availability of wireless technologies and mobile computing and internet have lead to new opportunities in developing mobile applications which purpose is to make people´s life more easier. Nowadays, a person can possess more than one mobile device intend for different usage such as communication, entertainment, office works. This paper proposes a mobile application which will be able to estimate the position of a user within a building by using WIFI technology.
Keywords :
mobile computing; wireless LAN; WIFI-based indoor positioning system; mobile computing; position estimation; Computer networks; Computer vision; Global Positioning System; Indoor environments; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Optical receivers; Radiofrequency identification; Satellites; Indoor Positioning System; WIFI;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Network Technology (ICCNT), 2010 Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4042-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6962-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICCNT.2010.33
