A New Approach for Indoor Navigation Using Semantic Webtechnologies and Augmented Reality

Indoor navigation is an important research topic nowadays. The complexity of larger buildings, supermarkets, museums, etc. makes it necessary to use applications which can facilitate the orientation. While for outdoor navigation already exist tried and tested solutions, but few reliable ones are ava...

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Published inVirtual Augmented and Mixed Reality. Designing and Developing Augmented and Virtual Environments pp. 202 - 210
Main Authors Matuszka, Tamás, Gombos, Gergő, Kiss, Attila
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Augmented Reality
Indoor Navigation
Mobile Application
Ontology
Semantic Web
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Summary:Indoor navigation is an important research topic nowadays. The complexity of larger buildings, supermarkets, museums, etc. makes it necessary to use applications which can facilitate the orientation. While for outdoor navigation already exist tried and tested solutions, but few reliable ones are available for indoor navigation. In this paper we investigate the possible technologies for indoor navigation. Then, we present a general, cost effective system as a solution. This system uses the advantages of semantic web to store data and to compute the possible paths as well. Furthermore it uses Augmented Reality techniques and map view to provide interaction with the users. We made a prototype based on client-server architecture. The server runs in a cloud and provides the appropriate data to the client, which can be a smartphone or a tablet with Android operation system.
ISBN:9783642394041
3642394043
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-39405-8_24