Location based services with personal area network for community and tourism applications
Location based services with personal area network for community and tourism applications
- Author(s): M. Ros ; M. D'Souza ; A. Postula ; I. MacColl
- DOI: 10.1049/cp.2011.0924
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- Author(s): M. Ros ; M. D'Souza ; A. Postula ; I. MacColl Source: IET International Communication Conference on Wireless Mobile and Computing (CCWMC 2011), 2011 p. 432 – 437
- Conference: IET International Communication Conference on Wireless Mobile and Computing (CCWMC 2011)
- DOI: 10.1049/cp.2011.0924
- ISBN: 978-1-84919-505-8
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Conference date: 14-16 Nov. 2011
- Format: PDF
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.
Inspec keywords: personal area networks; multimedia communication; mobile computing; Bluetooth
Subjects: Mobile radio systems; Mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive computing; Computer networks and techniques; Multimedia communications; Multimedia; Computer communications
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