This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entire landscape of both outdoor and indoor wireless positioning, and guides the reader step by step in the implementation of wireless positioning applications on the iPhone. Explanations of fundamental positioning techniques are given throughout the text, along with many programming examples, providing the reader with an independent, practical, and enjoyable learning of the material while gaining a real feel for the subject.
*Provides an accessible introduction to positioning technologies such as Global Positioning System and Wi-Fi positioning *Presents hands-on skills to iOS 5.0 programming for location-aware applications *Gives a thorough grounding in signal propagation, line-of-sight and interference effects for accurate positioning *Covers the location-aware video streaming and conferencing with practical iPhone application examples *Accompanied by a website containing programming code described in the text and lecture presentation slides for instructors
This book is primarily intended for anyone who wants to study wireless localization. It is an ideal textbook for graduate students who are first learning localization techniques, as well as advanced undergraduates in computer science interested in translating localization concepts into real code. Professionals, engineers and researchers working in location-aware services and related techniques using mobile positioning and AI technologies will find this book to be a helpful reference.
Companion website for the book:
www.wiley.com/go/chan/wireless
Eddie C. L. Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Eddie C. L. Chan received the B.Sc. degree, the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree, all in computer science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has won numerous awards during his postgraduate study, including the Best Student Paper Award in International Conference on Fuzzy Computation, Madeira, Portugal in 2009, Best Presentation Award of Research Project and Alan Turing scholarship from Poly U in 2007 and 2008, and the 2nd-Class Group Award from The 9th Philip Challenge Cup in China in 2005. His research interests include wireless communication, localization, fuzzy logic, 3D visualization of tracking system, agent technology and data mining.
George Baciu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
George Baciu holds a PhD and a MSc degree in Systems Engineering and a B.Math degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. He has been a member of the Computer Graphics Laboratory and the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Waterloo and subsequently Director of the Graphics And Music Experimentation Laboratory at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong. Currently, Dr. Baciu is Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Computing and the founding director of the Graphics And Multimedia Applications (GAMA) Laboratory at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests are primarily in mobile augmented reality systems, user interfaces, physically-based illumination, rendering, image processing, motion tracking and synthesis for both outdoor and indoor location aware systems.
