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Towards a Spatial Position Information Management System for Interactive Building Environments

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Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing (IMC 2009)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 53))

Abstract

Indoor localisation systems enable a variety of assistance services in commercial buildings and home environments. Applications in this area cover guidance, asset tracking, behaviour monitoring for smart assistance and alert systems, intelligent remote control, to name a few of them. It is desirable to employ a position information management system which collects, manages, offers and distributes such information. This paper focuses on how to design such a middleware which gathers position information from one or more localisation systems and provides this data to interested and authorised applications.

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  1. Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences - HFT Stuttgart, Schellingstr. 24, D-70174, Stuttgart, Germany

    Stefan Knauth

  2. Lucerne University of Applied Sciences CEESAR - iHomeLab, Technikumstr. 21, CH-6048, Horw, Switzerland

    Rolf Kistler & Alexander Klapproth

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  1. Chair for Computer Architecture, Institute of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Djamshid Tavangarian

  2. Department of Computer Science, Rostock University, Albert-Einstein-Straße 21, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Thomas Kirste

  3. Institute of Applied Microelectronics and Computer Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Dirk Timmermann

  4. Department of Computer Science, Chair of Computer Architecture, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Ulrike Lucke

  5. Chair of Computer Architecture, Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, D-18059, Rostock, Germany

    Daniel Versick

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Knauth, S., Kistler, R., Klapproth, A. (2009). Towards a Spatial Position Information Management System for Interactive Building Environments. In: Tavangarian, D., Kirste, T., Timmermann, D., Lucke, U., Versick, D. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing. IMC 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10263-9_18

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