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TerraSwarmTerraSwarm
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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$8.95
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Challenges
How bad is RSSI in practice?
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RSSI RSSI
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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