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Towards Luxtrace: Using solar cells to measure distance indoors

Julian F. Randall, Oliver Amft, and Gerhard Tröster. Towards Luxtrace: Using solar cells to measure distance indoors. In LOCA 2005: Proceedings of the International Conference on Location and Context awareness., pp. 40–51, Springer, May 2005.

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Abstract

Navigation for and tracking of humans within a building usually implies signifcant infrastructure investment and devices are usually too high in weight and volume to be integrated into garments. We propose a system that relies on existing infrastructure (so requires little infrastructure investment) and is based on a sensor that is low cost, low weight, low volume and can be manufactured to have similar characteristics to everyday clothing (fexible, range of colours). This proposed solution is based on solar modules. This paper investigates their theoretical and practical characteristics in a simplifed scenario. Two models based on theory and on experimental results (empirical model) are developed and validated. First distance estimations indicate that an empirical model for a particular scenario achieves an accuracy of 18cm with a confdence of 83%.

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{Randall2005-P_LOCA,
  author = {Julian F. Randall and Oliver Amft and Gerhard Tr\"oster},
  title = {Towards {Luxtrace}: Using solar cells to measure distance indoors},
  booktitle = {LOCA 2005: Proceedings of the International Conference on Location
	and Context awareness.},
  year = {2005},
  volume = {3479},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  pages = {40--51},
  month = {May},
  publisher = {Springer},
  abstract = {Navigation for and tracking of humans within a building usually implies
	signifcant infrastructure investment and devices are usually too
	high in weight and volume to be integrated into garments. We propose
	a system that relies on existing infrastructure (so requires little
	infrastructure investment) and is based on a sensor that is low cost,
	low weight, low volume and can be manufactured to have similar characteristics
	to everyday clothing (fexible, range of colours). This proposed solution
	is based on solar modules. This paper investigates their theoretical
	and practical characteristics in a simplifed scenario. Two models
	based on theory and on experimental results (empirical model) are
	developed and validated. First distance estimations indicate that
	an empirical model for a particular scenario achieves an accuracy
	of 18cm with a confdence of 83\%.},
  doi = {10.1007/11426646_5},
  file = {Randall2005-P_LOCA.pdf:Randall2005-P_LOCA.pdf:PDF},
  keywords = {location tracking}
}

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