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Integration of location services in the Open Distributed Office

Rizzo, Mike and Linington, Peter F. and Utting, Ian (1994) Integration of location services in the Open Distributed Office. Technical report. University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (KAR id:21185)

Abstract

There has recently been much interest in location systems which enable people and equipment to be tracked as they move within and across buildings. Perhaps the most popular of these is the active badge location system where tracking is done by means of IR communication between badges and a network of stations, but others include system login information, and personal diary systems. In the light of this, we describe a location system which does not rely solely on one specific mechanism, but uses and combines information from as many sources as possible, under the control of a master location system (MLS) which co-ordinates all location systems available within an organisation.

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Technical report)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 13 Aug 2009 18:52 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:59 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21185 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Linington, Peter F..

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Utting, Ian.

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