Precision Positioning with Commercial Smartphones in Urban Environments
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About the Book

This book discusses recent technologies and case studies that aim to enhance positioning obtained with commercial smartphones in urban environments, overcoming difficulties with GPS. The authors provide insight into recent trends and innovation on technologies, solutions and approaches to overcome GPS issues in urban environments, due to the existence of a big number of buildings. Topics include security and legal aspects related to positioning systems, the usage of crowdsourcing approaches to enhance positioning, location-based services, proximity based-social networking, satellite navigation and Bluetooth low-energy based systems. The book provides important information for developers that intend to make use of precise positioning for the purpose of commercial applications as well as for research and innovation.

  • Discusses technologies that enhance positioning obtained with commercial smartphones in urban environments;
  • Presents innovations to overcome GPS issues in urban environments caused by dense cities;
  • Includes applications of precise positioning, including their security issues and challenges.


About the Author:

Sara Paiva is an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, a PhD in Informatics Engineering from University of Vigo in 2011 and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oviedo, under advanced driving assistants and urban mobility. Her main line of research is smart mobility and smart cities, with a focus on inclusive mobility solutions. She is IEEE Senior Member, Volunteer in the IEEE Smart Cities Community and member of the Editorial Committee on the IEEE P2784 Smart City Planning and Technology Standard. She is Editor in Chief of EAI Endorsed Transaction on Smart Cities, Associate Editor of Springer Wireless Networks and Mobile Networks (MONET). She was General Co-Chair of the EAI International Convention on Smart Cities 360° 2020 with 10 co-located conferences. She acts as Scientific Evaluator of Individual Scientist Project Proposals for Fundamental and Applied Research for the Latvian Council of Science, since 2020. She is editor of books with Springer, CRC Press, Cambridge Scholar, and special issues in several impact factor journals. She has authored and co-authored several scientific publications in journals and conferences and is a frequent reviewer of international journals and international conferences.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783030712907
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 181
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3030712907
  • Publisher Date: 08 Aug 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 155 mm


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