MapBiquitous - An Integrated System for Indoor/Outdoor Location-based Services

• Location-based services
• Indoor positioning
• Indoor navigation
• Indoor/Outdoor integration
• Building model
• OpenGIS
• Android
• MapBiquitous

Nowadays, location-based services based on GPS and map data are commonly available. Since GPS does not work in buildings and map data provide geographic information only, such services are limited to outdoor scenarios. Large research effort has been carried out to explore indoor positioning and navigation systems but up to now mostly proprietary and isolated solutions have been proposed. In the project MapBiquitous an integrated system for indoor and outdoor location-based services is developed. It is based on a decentralized infrastructure of building servers providing information about the building geometry, positioning infrastructure and navigation. Building servers are dynamically discovered and provided information is seamlessly integrated into outdoor systems by the MapBiqutious client which runs on a mobile device.

Project leader:

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Springer

Resources:

• Komplexpraktikum MapBiquitous
• Komplexpraktikum MapBiquitous II
• Komplexpraktikum MobileCampusNavigator

Recent publications:

1. Thomas Springer:
MapBiquitous - An Approach for Integrated Indoor/Outdoor Location-based Services;
The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE); 2011

Student Assignments:

1. Gerd Bombach:
Untersuchung von Methoden des expliziten Crowd-Sourcing für Location-based Services in MapBiquitous;
Großer Beleg; 07.01.2013; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer

2. Tenshi Hara:
Untersuchung von Methoden des impliziten Crowd-Sourcing für Location-based Services in MapBiquitous;
Diploma thesis; 29.10.2012; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer

3. Sina Grunau:
Konzeption und Evaluation erweiterer Mechanismen zur Positionsbestimmung in Gebäuden;
Großer Beleg; 25.06.2012; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer

4. Christoph Keßler:
Entwicklung eines effizienten Konzeptes für die Verteilung der Verarbeitungslogik sowie das anagement von Gebäudedaten in MapBiquitous;
Diploma thesis; 07.05.2012; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer

5. Kay Werner:
Entwicklung eines wiederverwendbaren Frameworks zur Implementierung von Indoor/Outdoor Location-based Services mit MapBiquitous;
Diploma thesis; 02.04.2012; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer

6. Christoph Keßler:
Konzeption und Umsetzung einer gebäudeübergreifenden Indoor/Outdoor-Navigation für das MapBiquitous System;
Großer Beleg; 27.06.2011; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer

7. René Dienel:
Experimentelle Untersuchung des Übergangsbereiches zwischen Lokalisierungsverfahren im Innen- und Außenbereich;
Diploma thesis; 28.09.2010; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer

8. Jan Scholze:
Entwicklung eines integrierten Ansatzes zur Indoor- und Outdoor-Positionsbestimmung auf Basis einer Förderation von Gebäudedatenservern;
Diploma thesis; 29.10.2009; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer

9. Jan Scholze:
Entwicklung eines Konzeptes zur Integration von Gebäudeinformationen in/mit GIS-Systemen;
Großer Beleg; 23.03.2009; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer