The Active Badge Location System

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The Active Badge Location System (1992)

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by Roy Want , Veronica Falcao , Jon Gibbons

Venue:	ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Citations:	1447 - 14 self

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@ARTICLE{Want92theactive,
    author = {Roy Want and Veronica Falcao and Jon Gibbons},
    title = {The Active Badge Location System},
    journal = {ACM Transactions on Information Systems},
    year = {1992},
    volume = {10},
    pages = {91--102}
}

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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

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active badge location system call-back number pager system central facility audible signal particular receiver unit vocal message conventional telephone system crisis situation required action

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