Trapeze Networks Appliance for Location Determination

Location-based Services with Trapeze Networks LA200

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 Trapeze Networks Location Appliance allows enterprises to find and track valuable assets and people in real time over their existing Wi-Fi networks quickly and accurately. The LA-200 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.

The Location Appliance is designed to utilize industry standard application protocols to ensure complete interoperability with any Wi-Fi client as well as 802.11 compatible active tags from industry leaders such as Newbury Networks, Pango, AeroScout, Ekahau and many others. Increasingly, organizations in data intensive industries such as fi nancial services, health care and manufacturing are deploying sophisticated WLANs to support the latest mobile applications and next-generation wireless services, including Fixed to Mobile Convergence (FMC) and Voice over Wi-Fi. As these organizations evolve their WLAN strategies, they are embracing the strategic business value that accurate location awareness brings to wireless applications such as asset tracking, enhanced security, voice services and content provisioning.

This project concerns itself with carrying out extensive surveying of the campus and performing an in-depth analysis of the software which will detect each user’s position on campus via the LA200. 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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