wireless connectivity / Web applications / lower-level Internet / large infrastructure / distributed location-aware infrastructure / service Web interface service OSGi Framework / Web architecture / physical devices / incompatible protocols / physical device / discovery protocols / Web-oriented Infrastructure / ad hoc interaction with/from mobile devices / networked sensing devices / heterogeneous and mobile sensing devices / Web application / Web browser / real time / short-range radio protocols / location-aware Web applications / Web standards / embedded mobile devices / Web resource / Web-enabling Things The term Internet / software point of view / networked media players / Web-based hierarchical model / correct infrastructure / connected devices / software infrastructures using logs / Web interface / actual Web-based user interface / remote server / low-power protocols / smart real-world devices / possible solution / real-time data / pervasive computing applications / search engines / Web clients / mere transport protocol / classic Web model / local sub-network / search bar / ubiquitous computing applications / Web-based locationaware applications / Web resources / location-aware devices / interoperable and open infrastructure / Web server / manufacturing / Web tools / wireless router / Present-day location-aware services / client applications / specific discovery protocol / particular software architecture / discovery protocol / location-aware applications / Web technologies / low-power devices / open wireless routers / Web services / be built solely using Web standards / /
Organization
MIT / USA Institute for Pervasive Computing / Simon Mayer Institute for Pervasive Computing / Vlad Trifa MIT SENSEable City Lab / /
Person
Dominique Guinard / Vlad Trifa / Simon Mayer / /
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OSGi / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Java / HTML / JavaScript / /
ProvinceOrState
Massachusetts / /
Technology
HTTP protocol / JSON / API / GPS / open wireless routers / mobile phones / Plug and Play / HTML / application protocol / mere transport protocol / TCP/IP / Wi-Fi / mobile devices / wireless router / load balancing / Java / Web technologies / discovery protocol / discovery protocols / HTTP / specific discovery protocol / caching / Bluetooth / Web server / low-power protocols / short-range radio protocols / /
Leveraging the Web for a Distributed Location-aware Infrastructure for the Real World∗ Vlad Trifa and Dominique Guinard and Simon Mayer Abstract Since GPS receivers have become a commodity anyone could access and