Title :
Are GSM Phones THE Solution for Localization?
Author :
Varshavsky, Alex ; Chen, MikeY ; De Lara, Eyal ; Froehlich, Jon ; Haehnel, Dirk ; Hightower, Jeffrey ; LaMarca, Anthony ; Potter, Fred ; Sohn, Timothy ; Tang, Karen ; Smith, Ian
Author_Institution :
University of Toronto, Canada
Abstract :
In this paper, we argue that localization solution based on cellular phone technology, specifically GSM phones, is a sufficient and attractive option in terms of coverage and accuracy for a wide range of indoor, outdoor, and placebased location-aware applications. We present preliminary results that indicate that GSM-based localization systems have the potential to detect the places that people visit in their everyday lives, and can achieve median localization accuracies of 5 and 75 meters for indoor and outdoor environments, respectively.
Keywords :
Application software; Cellular phones; Computer science; GSM; Global Positioning System; Medical services; Navigation; Taxonomy; Web search; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 2006. WMCSA '06. Proceedings. 7th IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2439-7
DOI :
10.1109/WMCSA.2006.1
