Providing Location Everywhere [chapter]

Ricardo Anacleto, Lino Figueiredo, Paulo Novais, Ana Almeida
2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
The ability to locate an individual is an essential part of many applications, specially the mobile ones. Obtaining this location in an open environment is relatively simple through GPS (Global Positioning System), but indoors or even in dense environments this type of location system doesn't provide a good accuracy. There are already systems that try to suppress these limitations, but most of them need the existence of a structured environment to work. Since Inertial Navigation Systems (INS)
more » ... y to suppress the need of a structured environment we propose an INS based on Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems (MEMS) that is capable of, in real time, compute the position of an individual everywhere.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24769-9_2 fatcat:4yjyjjup35dpxhksu4jgdxv7qi