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Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness (ISA '16)
| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
|---|---|
| Editor | Ali, Mohammed Eunus Cheema, Muhammad Aamir Yang, Shiyu |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | The human environment is essentially a built environment. A large part of modern life is lived indoors, whether in homes, offices, shopping malls, universities, libraries, airports, or perhaps huge sport stadiums. Analyst firm ABI Research predicts that by 2018, more than 800 million smartphones will be actively using indoor location technology, which will be as commonplace as GPS is today. Indoor maps are also becoming increasingly available. Google is crowdsourcing indoor maps from proprietors; Micello has mapped more than 15,000 indoor venues and is expanding; and OpenStreetMap has also started creating publicly available indoor maps. A survey estimated that more than 200,000 indoor venues across the US will be using indoor location based services (LBSs) by the end of this year. These advances bring enormous opportunities. Indoor technology will rapidly become vital for the operations of governments, businesses, and private individuals. The US Federal Communications Commission is exploring indoor positioning for more timely and effective emergency services. In October 2014, Apple allowed business owners to upload their indoor maps on Apple Maps - but the service was soon completely overwhelmed by pent-up demand, forcing Apple to limit it to venues with over 1 million visitors a year. Based on such reports of its immense popularity, indoor services are expected to have an even bigger impact than their outdoor counterparts in maps and GPS. Realising the potential of indoor services, major handset providers and research organizations have started investing in this important and growing area to exploit its full potential. Many unique research challenges need to be addressed such as spatial abilities, reasoning, ontologies, and data management for indoor space, to name a few. The series of ACM Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness addresses these challenges and explores the cognitive and semantic challenges, positioning and data processing requirements and technological innovations needed to facilitate the smooth transition to this ecosystem. |
| ISBN | 9781450345859 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2016-10-31 |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Conference Proceedings |
