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Testing of location systems using WiFi in indoor environments

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GUENTHER RETSCHER, ESMOND MOK

Acknowledgement

This research is supported by RGC Research Grant of the Hong Kong SAR Government. (2005-2006), BQ-936 “Intelligent Geolocation Algorithms for Location-based Services” The authors would like to thank Mr. Yiu Chit Fai, Chu Ka Kit and Ho Siu Tung for the performance of the field tests carried out at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the students of the Practical Course on Location Based Services in the winter term 2005/06 for the performance of the tests at the Vienna University of Technology. The authors would also like to thank the Facility Management Office of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Vienna University of Technology for providing the floorplan of the University buildings which were used in some of the Figures.

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Esmond Mok

Department LSGI,
The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University
lsemok@polyu.edu.hk
   

Guenther Retscher

Engineering Geodesy,
Vienna University of Technology
gretsch@pop.tuwien.ac.at
The system ‘ipos’ was developed by the German
company IMST GmbH.
   
     
 
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