Bricks for a Urban Location Aware System

Posted: November 29th, 2006 | No Comments »

I am using different positioning techniques (GPS, WiFi and GSM) to investigating the fluctuating location quality and timeliness experienced in a large-scale coverage such as the Barcelona urban area.
Bcn Metro Gsm Fingerprints Bcn Wifi Map Yuji Ecologia Crossing Gracia2
(from left to right) Using a homemade S60 Application to collect GSM fingerprints in specific POI such as metro stations, WiFi map (courtesy of Yuji Yoshimura, Agencia d`Ecologia Urbana de Barcelona), GPS drifts in of of the many compact low-rise buildings area of Barcelona.

Relation with my thesis: toying around to come up with design ideas and contexts for their implementations.