Location-aware services based on Wi-Fi network

Modern Wi-Fi network has been a convinced way to connect to internet and widely accepted by people. Base on the Wi-Fi infra-structure, we can provide location-based services which could help to increase customers' experience and engagement in the services or activities provided by area owners....

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Published inThe 16th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Yun-Hui Wen, Hsiao-Wen Kao, Hsu-Sheng Chang, Gwo-Hwa Ju
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.09.2014
Subjects
Access control
Captive Portal
Conferences
IEEE 802.11 Standards
Internet
Location-Aware Services
Location-based Services
Mobile handsets
Servers
Wi-Fi Hot Zone
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Summary:Modern Wi-Fi network has been a convinced way to connect to internet and widely accepted by people. Base on the Wi-Fi infra-structure, we can provide location-based services which could help to increase customers' experience and engagement in the services or activities provided by area owners. In this paper, we present a Wi-Fi hot zone based Location-Aware services which can dynamically cognize user's current location and automatically offer related contents, such as activities information and indoor map services. We also address the access control and verification method to restrict users from accessing the LBS content from outside the Wi-Fi hot zone venue. Through field trial provisioning a number of Wi-Fi APs, as well as system of network-side development and deployment, we execute an experiment to verify the viability of our location-aware service and analyze the performance. The results show that our system can correctly indicate user's current location within a period of reasonable reaction time.
DOI:10.1109/APNOMS.2014.6996533