Location. Infrastructure and Components. Sensor systems for indoor position computation. Location awareness and navigation in location-based systems. Existing indoor location systems: How they work. Location Modeling Languages. Service deployment. Privacy concerns and methods for safeguarding privacy. Development and deployment of indoor location-based services. Standards.
Krzysztof W. Kolodziej, Johan Hjelm
“Local Positioning Systems is a groundbreaking book to support
researchers and practitioners in location and tracking based
services. The book is particularly impressive in the coverage of
emerging indoor location based services that many observers claim
to be a fast growing market (after all, we spend much of our time
indoors). Congratulations to the authors on a job well done.”
--Antonio S. Camara, CEO, YDreams
”This book provides an excellent overview of some of the different
technologies that can be used to provide positioning solutions in
support of location based services….This book will serve as good
reference material for anyone interested in learning about
opportunities and pitfalls in the development and deployment of
in-door positioning systems for LBS”
--Alison Brown, PhD, President/CEO NAVSYS Corporation
“This descriptive, all-encompassing book is a must for anyone
wanting to understand location-based services from infrastructure
components to service deployment. The technologies and problems
associated with LBS are described at length. The approach is
non-technical and the author succeeds in explaining all concepts
with hardly any formulas. The chapters are loaded with examples to
illustrate past and current attempts to develop and deploy LBS both
outdoor and indoor. The broad experience of the author with LBS is
apparent at every page. In an attempt to be descriptive, the author
omits to describe requirements and system specifications and
performance.”
-- Gerard Lachapelle, CRC/iCORE Chair in Wireless Location Dept of
Geomatics Eng, University of Calgary
“It is relatively jargon free which is a positive…Those readers
with passing familiarity with sensors, engineering, radio,
statistics, college level math and networks should have no trouble
understanding the material…well organized and easy to follow. It
leads the reader through a lot of material at the proper depth of a
primer… provides sufficient depth and information for a
semi-technical person to make informed decisions about the
technology…Comprehensive…Good depiction of various signal
processing techniques for resolving position and location…Graphics
and especially signal propagation graphics will help the reader
understand limitations and environments that will cause issues…The
mapping/fingerprinting section is excellent… Map-matching sections
and explanation of geometric is very strong…Explanation of models
and data is excellent and appropriate.”
--comments from John Dmohowski
”When I began research about LBS several years ago, I found there
was no book or survey paper that offered a quick overview of local
positioning systems. This excellent work solves this problem. This
book introduces several case studies, showing the details on how
they are set up. Especially valuable is its detailed coverage
concerning the infrastructure of building a LBS system. The most
awesome thing is that this is the first book that clearly discusses
how to deploy a LBS system. In summary, this is an excellent
reference book for any researchers and engineers interested in
developing a local positioning system.”
--Changsong Shen, University of British Columbia
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