Location-Aware Computing Comes of Age

Hazas, M., Scott, J., and Krumm, J. Location-aware computing comes of age. IEEE Computer 37, 2 (2004), 95–97.

This introductory paper to Location-Aware Computing talks about the numerous location-sensing systems that differ with respect to accuracy, coverage, frequency of location update, and cost of installation and maintenance. The authors devid them into coarse-grained and fine-grained systems.

Many similarities with A Survey and Taxonomy of Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing.

Relation to my thesis: Which coarse-grained and fine-grained location-sensing systems ought to be used to match the location information granularity expected by a user on a specific activity. I am interested in granularity not only based on accuracy, but also in terms of timeliness.