Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Araújo, Ulisses Tiago Simões

Titel

Where@UM – Where is the Classroom for My Next Lecture? – The Problem of the Space’s Geometry

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In recent years more and more complex structures have been built. Buildings and locations which users must navigate efficiently so they can reach their appointments in a timely fashion, such as hospitals, universities and airports. Unfortunately technologies such as GPS are not well adapted to indoor locations and therefore do not provide a solution to this problem. Indoor mapping has been subject to increased amounts of research in the past few years and a plethora of different solutions have started to arise although none completely fulfill every requirement this problem presents. This thesis is done in conjunction with others with the final objective of creating the prototype of a mobile application and system that will be able to precisely locate where a user is inside of an indoor location through showing them their location on a floorplan. It will more specifically focus on the modeling aspect of the space geometry in an efficient way that can be used by this application. The purpose of this dissertation is to document the research done to choose the most appropriate data format, the development of a conversion method of the available data to the chosen format, and the development of web services and mobile application components that will provide this information to the end user. Additionally the development of a web application that, with the results obtained throughout this investigation process, helps keep track of the progress of the radio mapping will also be documented.