The Active Badge Location System

The Active Badge Location System (1992)

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by Roy Want , Veronica Falcao , Jon Gibbons

Venue:	ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Citations:	931 - 14 self

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TITLE	The Active Badge Location System	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Roy Want	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	1	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Veronica Falcao	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	1	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Jon Gibbons	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	2; Olivetti Research Ltd (ORL)	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	24a Trumpington Street; Cambridge CB2 1QA	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	cation is the `pager system'. In order to locate a person a signal is sent out by a central facility that addresses a particular receiver unit (beeper) and produces an audible signal. In addition, it may display a number to which the called-party should phone back (some systems allow a vocal message to be conveyed about the call-back number). It is then up to the recipient to use the conventional telephone system to call-back confirming the signal and determine the required action. Although useful in practice there are still circumstances where it is not ideal. For instance, if the called party does not reply the controller has no idea if they: 1) are in an area where the signal does not penetrate 2) have been completely out of the area for some time 3) have been too busy to reply or 4) have misheard or misread the call-back number. Moreover, in the case where there are a number of people who could respond to a crisis situation, it is not known which one is the nearest to the crisis an	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1992	INFERENCE
VENUE	ACM Transactions on Information Systems	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	91--102	INFERENCE
VOLUME	10	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	4 found	ParsCit 1.0