Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation

by Hassan A. Karimi (Editor)

Overview

Due to the widespread use of navigation systems for wayfinding and navigation in the outdoors, researchers have devoted their efforts in recent years to designing navigation systems that can be used indoors. This book is a comprehensive guide to designing and building indoor wayfinding and navigation systems. It covers all types of feasible sensors (for example, Wi-Fi, A-GPS), discussing the level of accuracy, the types of map data needed, the data sources, and the techniques for providing routes and directions within structures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040075685
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	03/25/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	266
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr. Karimi is an active researcher and has published extensively in the area of Geoinformatics. He serves as the lead faculty for both the Geoinformatics Specialization (MSIS Program) and the Geoinformatics Lab at the School of Information Sciences.

His research interests include: Geoinformatics (Geospatial Information Systems, Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Remote Sensing), navigation, location-based services, mobile computing, computational geometry, parallel/distributed/grid computing, and spatial analysis algorithms.

Today, numerous applications are benefiting from geoinformatics techniques, technologies, and tools and with recent advances in geoinformatics and related technologies, such as Web services and grid computing, new geoprocessing paradigms and applications are expected to emerge. Dr. Karimi and his students look at real-world problems such as way finding, handicapped access to sidewalks and buildings, or social networking with geolocation capabilities.

Table of Contents

A-GPS Positioning. WiFi Positioning. RFID. Integrated sensors. Map Data Content and Sources. Routing and Directions. Architectures. Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation on Smartphones. Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation for Blind and Visually Impaired Users. Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation for Wheelchair Users. Navigation Assistance Through Social Media.

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a timely addition to the resources available to researchers and practitioners in the area. This edited collection of 11 chapters, written by area experts, explores different facets of the indoor wayfinding and navigation problem, such as cognitive factors, positioning and mapping, applications of these technologies, and privacy of individuals. This book is relevant for researchers, students, and practitioners in the area. Each chapter ends with related references, which will help readers dig deeper into the subject."
—Satyajayant Misra, IEEE Wireless Communications, December 2015

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