'Follow me': a web-based, location-sharing architecture for large, indoor environments

We leverage the ubiquity of bluetooth-enabled devices and propose a decentralized, web-based architecture that allows users to share their location by following each other in the style of Twitter. We demonstrate a prototype that operates in a large building which generates a dataset of detected blue...

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Main Authors: Ypodimatopoulos, Polychronis (Contributor), Lippman, Andrew B. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012-08-28T18:37:52Z.
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