Citation
Joseph Ng. "Technical and Practical Aspects for Locating and Tracking Mobile Users within a Wireless Local Area Network". Talk or presentation, 22, April, 2014.

Abstract
Indoor positioning technology or the technique for locating a mobile user is the base technology for indoor location-aware computing. In general, there are a large variety of location-based applications and services that rely on an accurate and stable location estimation system such as warehouse management, point-of-interest, infotainment, patient monitoring, mobile healthcare, and customer/consumer behavior analysis within an enclosed area like a shopping mall or exhibition center. Such location-based services play a crucial part in enabling e-commerce, and m-commerce, and eventually a critical part to bring the community to the era of ubiquitous/pervasive computing. In view of the heavy usage and progressively growing coverage of WLAN within the indoor environment, and the research studies on ways to do WLAN positioning and tracking, there is a need to investigate the feasibility of using the WLAN infrastructure to locate a mobile user as well as to find an efficient and effective way to track users’ behavior and provides location-based services in libraries, museums, shopping malls, and exhibition centers, and to ensure personal safety in hospitals and elderly centers. This talk will focus on the technical as well as the practical issues on Wi-Fi localization and compare our proposed method with some of the classical approaches in the literature. We will also discuss about how the proposed method is to be applied to an exhibition center in tracking users’ behavior. We are entering a new era of computing – the era of ubiquitous/pervasive computing where we can retrieve any data from any device using any network at anytime and anyplace, and this is the technology that will bring us a step closer to a more secure and more convenient ubiquitous computing society.

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  Joseph Ng. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1069.html"
  ><i>Technical and Practical Aspects for Locating
  and Tracking Mobile Users within a Wireless Local Area
  Network</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  22,
  April, 2014.

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  Joseph Ng. "Technical and Practical Aspects for
  Locating and Tracking Mobile Users within a Wireless Local
  Area Network". Talk or presentation,  22, April, 2014.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Ng14_TechnicalPracticalAspectsForLocatingTrackingMobileUsers,
      author = {Joseph Ng},
      title = {Technical and Practical Aspects for Locating and
                Tracking Mobile Users within a Wireless Local Area
                Network},
      day = {22},
      month = {April},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Indoor positioning technology or the technique for
                locating a mobile user is the base technology for
                indoor location-aware computing. In general, there
                are a large variety of location-based applications
                and services that rely on an accurate and stable
                location estimation system such as warehouse
                management, point-of-interest, infotainment,
                patient monitoring, mobile healthcare, and
                customer/consumer behavior analysis within an
                enclosed area like a shopping mall or exhibition
                center. Such location-based services play a
                crucial part in enabling e-commerce, and
                m-commerce, and eventually a critical part to
                bring the community to the era of
                ubiquitous/pervasive computing. In view of the
                heavy usage and progressively growing coverage of
                WLAN within the indoor environment, and the
                research studies on ways to do WLAN positioning
                and tracking, there is a need to investigate the
                feasibility of using the WLAN infrastructure to
                locate a mobile user as well as to find an
                efficient and effective way to track users’
                behavior and provides location-based services in
                libraries, museums, shopping malls, and exhibition
                centers, and to ensure personal safety in
                hospitals and elderly centers. This talk will
                focus on the technical as well as the practical
                issues on Wi-Fi localization and compare our
                proposed method with some of the classical
                approaches in the literature. We will also discuss
                about how the proposed method is to be applied to
                an exhibition center in tracking users’
                behavior. We are entering a new era of computing
                – the era of ubiquitous/pervasive computing
                where we can retrieve any data from any device
                using any network at anytime and anyplace, and
                this is the technology that will bring us a step
                closer to a more secure and more convenient
                ubiquitous computing society.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1069.html}
  }
  

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