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Publikation

Sound-based proximity detection with mobile phones

Benjamin Thiel; Kamil Kloch; Paul Lukowicz
In: PhoneSense '12 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones. International Workshop on Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones (SenSys-2012), located at 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems, November 6-9, Toronto, ON, Canada, ISBN 978-1-4503-1778-8, ACM, New York, 11/2012.

Zusammenfassung

We present a method for proximity detection with mobile phones that is based on a combination of Bluetooth communication (for the detection of coarse proximity) and sound beacons in an inaudible spectrum around 18kHz for a finer spatial resolution. The system performs a real-time recognition of personal encounters in two common situations: standing together and walking by each other. We evaluate our approach in a variety of settings ranging from office corridor, through a busy street to a shopping mall.

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