McCarty, Paul wrote: > I would say this is next to impossible. Oh, if you search the web it's clearly been done; the accuracy may not be thrilling, but it could be good enough for some uses (where are the nearest exits, am I near my desk and moving toward it or away from it, etc). > I know there are some hooks to measure signal strength, but all it takes > is one wall thicker then another and you lose signal strength. Or a > floor say? You'd be better off writing coordinates on the wall! :-) This afternoon I did joke with a coworker about OCR'ing the office numbers to get location. > Another alternative is they sell GPS repeaters. Thanks; I didn't know that. > I would suggest looking into an intertial/accelerometer sensor. Thanks; that's an interesting idea. I guess you could choose a spot at which to activate it at each location (home, school, work, etc.) I am interested in workstation-class systems (whatever that means) ;-) as wearables, so it would be reasonable to assume the processing power would be there to compute the location from either wacky wireless signals or other sensor data. Mainly I was hoping to leverage existing work so I could concentrate on the aspects of wearables I want to pursue without losing time recreating existing work. I guess I can always fake it and enter the locations manually. Steve -- http://www.stevebarr.com 100% my opinions. -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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