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Title:: Indoor location for professional applications workshop
When:: 02 February 2010
Where:: National Physical Laboratory - Teddington
Category:: MDA supported

Description

How do you track a fire-fighter within a building?
How do you find an injured maintenance worker in a metro system?
How do you locate expensive assets over a large, built-up site?
Can your staff carry a single device for communication, location, security and safety in all environments?

These questions and other challenges of ubiquitous location will be considered during a workshop on Indoor Location for Professional Applications, held by the Location & Timing Programme of the Digital Systems KTN.

We will consider the application requirements for: the emergency services, security, construction and asset tracking.
Technology solutions covered will include: UWB, WiFi localisation, enhanced RFID tracking, inertial systems; and combinations of these with GNSS to provide seamless outdoor/indoor location.
Integration into robust and dependable location systems for implementation

Presentations include:
The draft conclusions of a study for Ofcom on Locating wireless devices where GPS may be unavailable.
Inertial Positioning with Low-Cost Sensors.
SWB with other techniques, for indoor navigation.
Locata "Terrestrial GPS".
Accurate and Robust UWB-Based Positioning
Ultrawideband (UWB) radio location systems and their applications
WiFi tracking in the Healthcare sector
Seamless GPS & indoor location tracking
Integrating indoor location systems

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