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Indoor positioning is a technique that provides the continuous real-time location of objects or people within a closed space through measurements (Dempsey 2003). It is primarily used in retail floors, warehouses, factories, and offices to monitor and track people, equipments, merchandise, etc. Contrary to self-positioning systems such as GPS, indoor positions are calculated on a distant server using the information transmitted by mobile tags (Zeimpekis et al. 2003). Indoor positioning systems (IPS) may have different configurations. For example, tags may transmit movement information directly through a wireless network or may be read by scanners as they pass by. In the latter case, tags possess no processing capabilities and are unable to calculate their own position. Also, different radio frequencies can be used for indoor...
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Caron, C., Chamberland-Tremblay, D., Lapierre, C., Hadaya, P., Roche, S., Saada, M. (2017). Indoor Positioning. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_626
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