An API for location aware computing
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53438775-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Bell, Jason Murray, 1980-
Advisor(s)
Seth Teller.
Alternative Title
Application Programming Interface for location aware computing
Date Issued
2003
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Indoor, location-aware devices have the potential to provide extremely useful resource and building information to human users; for example, a location-aware PDA could potentially provide map information in real time. We have developed a complete, extensible, indoor location-aware API to allow clients to interact with building and resource data stored on a central server. We have designed our own data model, emphasizing a space's adjacency relationships to other spaces as the most important relational characteristic. Route finding is a fundamental algorithm for the exploration of such a data model; we investigated, implemented, and evaluated several such algorithms. Furthermore, we have implemented both a server and several clients, demonstrating the robustness and reliability of the API. The API's most complex client, the CampusMap application, runs on a commodity graphics workstation and allows a user to interact with a full, three-dimensional model of campus. CampusMap generates lowest-cost routes between any campus location by interacting with a Location Server, visualizing campus spaces, and instantly updating route results.
Description
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90).
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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