Pervasive Computing
Subtitle: Third International Conference, PERVASIVE 2005, Munich, Germany, May 8-13, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Hans W. Gellersen (Editor); Roy Want (Editor); Albrecht Schmidt (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 23, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9783540260080
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; Operating Systems - General; Computers; Computers - Communications / Networking; Computer Books: General; Programming - Systems Analysis & Design; Networking - General; Computers / Networking / General; ad-hoc networking; ambient intelligence; context-aware computing; embedded systems; location-aware services; pervasive computing; privacy; sensor networks; smart applications; Congresses; Mobile computing; Ubiquitous computing
First sentence: Location-aware computing [1] covers many different location granularities, from applications requiring city-scale location accuracy (e.g. online yellow pages), to others which operate on the centimeter or even millimeter scale (e.g. augmented reality).