Does on-body location of a GPS receiver matter?

Christian Vaitl; Kai Kunze; Paul Lukowicz

doi:10.1109/BSN.2010.51

Does on-body location of a GPS receiver matter?

Christian Vaitl, Kai Kunze, Paul Lukowicz

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Abstract

We present an elaborate experimental study of the influence of device placement on the GPS location accuracy in three different mobile appliances: iphone 3gs, nokia n95 and nokia 810. On a total of some 52 km of walking traces we shaw that there are statistically significant difference in the errors between 5 on body locations: hand, front pocket of trousers, inner pocket of the jacket, inside a backpack. While the fact that such difference exists was well known before, this paper is the first to systematically study the effect.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2010
Pages	219-221
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2010.51
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2010 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 2010 Jun 7 → 2010 Jun 9

Publication series

Name	2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2010

Other

Other	2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2010
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	10/6/7 → 10/6/9

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Access to Document

10.1109/BSN.2010.51

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Vaitl, C, Kunze, K & Lukowicz, P 2010, Does on-body location of a GPS receiver matter? in 2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2010., 5504730, 2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2010, pp. 219-221, 2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2010, Singapore, Singapore, 10/6/7. https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2010.51

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