@inproceedings{lamarca2005place,
author = {LaMarca, Anthony and Chawathe, Yatin and Consolvo, Sunny and Hightower, Jeffrey and Smith, Ian and Scott, James and Sohn, Tim and Howard, James and Hughes, Jeff and Potter, Fred and Tabert, Jason and Powledge, Pauline and Borriello, Gaetano and Schilit, Bill},
title = {Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2005)},
year = {2005},
month = {May},
abstract = {Location awareness is an important capability for mobile computing. Yet inexpensive, pervasive positioning—a requirement for wide-scale adoption of location-aware computing—has been elusive. We demonstrate a radio beacon-based approach to location, called Place Lab, that can overcome the lack of ubiquity and high-cost found in existing location sensing approaches. Using Place Lab, commodity laptops, PDAs and cell phones estimate their position by listening for the cell IDs of fixed radio beacons, such as wireless access points, and referencing the beacons’ positions in a cached database. We present experimental results showing that 802.11 and GSM beacons are sufficiently pervasive in the greater Seattle area to achieve 20-30 meter median accuracy with nearly 100% coverage measured by availability in people’s daily lives.},
publisher = {Springer Verlag},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/place-lab-device-positioning-using-radio-beacons-in-the-wild/},
note = {ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award 2016},
}