Ekahau Real-Time Location Determination

Location-based Services with Ekahau

Location awareness is becoming an important aspect of modern life. A number of systems using various sensing technologies are available. Most of these systems have a number of major drawbacks including cost, accuracy or the ability to work indoors. For example, the Ekahau RTLS Location Determination Technology allows enterprises to find and track valuable assets and people in real time over their existing Wi-Fi networks quickly and accurately. The Ekahau system provides extremely precise location tracking for thousands of devices over a wireless LAN (WLAN) and enables a host of mobile enterprise applications such as asset tracking, locationsensitive content delivery, location-aware security as well as a wealth of custom applications that integrate voice and data with location-aware identity-based networking.

Wireless networks that are today used for data and voice provide an excellent platform for building accurate location-tracking systems. Unlike other proprietary systems, the Ekahau solution utilizes standard 802.11 wireless networks to deliver a comprehensive Real-Time Location System (RTLS) for locating your valuable assets and people. Because it uses the existing wireless network infrastructure, deployment is more cost effective. In addition, deployment of Ekahau RTLS does not interrupt network activities or affect other network communications. With Ekahau RTLS, the position of equipment and people is automatically updated and can also be delivered to other systems and personnel requiring the same information. This enhanced information flow ensures that assets are utilized more efficiently and workflow is optimized. This enables significant cost savings. Moreover, the system also enables additional automated functions, such as directing security personnel to the location where a tag alarm button has been pressed or a tamper switch activated.

This project concerns itself with carrying out extensive surveying of the Magee campus and performing an in-depth analysis of the software which will detect each user’s position on campus via the ekahau system. We wish to examine the viability of the device in determining location and indeed the general approach to location tracking for a campus environment. This will involve evaluating the susceptibility of errors creeping in due to the occurrence of non ideal conditions such as multi-story buildings and sparse access points. This will allow us to quantify the mapping density and level of detail required to make accurate predictions and enable us to draw conclusions about the practical and economic viability of this approach.

Please visit here. Other links on location determination include Indoor tracking projects, Location Determination Papers, LBS360 and GeoLocation.

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