terraswarm sponsored by the terraswarm research center, one of six centers administered by the...

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Sponsored by the TerraSwarm Research Center, one of six centers administered by the STARnet phase of the Focus Center Research Program (FCRP) a Semiconductor Research Corporation program sponsored by MARCO and DARPA.

Semantic Heuristic Localization

TerraSwarm Localization Workshop. Ann Arbor, MI. May 16, 2014

University of Michigan

Branden Ghena

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Background

Who’s in Lab?

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Background

What People Carry• Phones• Laptops• RFID Cards• Fitbits

What People Are• Voice• Faces• Height• Weight

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What People Use• Desk Chair• Computer

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Background

What People Carry• Phones• Laptops• RFID Cards• Fitbits

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Fitbit Scanning

Fitbits communicate over BLE

Actively scan using base stationCan run from a Raspberry PI

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Challenges

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The Barrier Problem

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Challenges

How bad is RSSI in practice?

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Whereabouts

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http://inductor.eecs.umich.edu/whereabouts.html

https://github.com/lab11/whereabouts