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**OwlPS** (_Owl Positioning System_) is a positioning (localization) system |
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based on the IEEE 802.11 radio network (Wi-Fi), targeting mainly indoor |
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environments. It uses an infrastructure-centred architecture, which means the |
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infrastructure does the measurements and computes the mobile terminals' |
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positions, rather than the terminals computing their own positions (as it is |
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the case for instance with the GPS). |
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environments. It uses an infrastructure-centred architecture, which means |
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deployed hardware takes care of the measurements and computes the mobile |
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terminals' positions, rather than the terminals computing their own positions |
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(as it is the case for instance with the GPS). |
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OwlPS implements various positioning techniques and algorithms based on the |
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radio signal strength. It features a self-calibration (or autocalibration) |
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mechanism that avoids the time-consuming manual fingerprinting phase and allows |
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considering dynamic changes of the environment (human, climatic, etc.) when |
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computing the location of mobile terminals. |
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taking into account dynamic changes of the environment (human, climatic, etc.) |
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when computing the location of mobile terminals. |
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**This presentation is an excerpt of `doc/owlps.t2t`. Please refer to this file |
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for a more in-depth introduction to OwlPS.** |
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## News |
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OwlPS is not currently actively maintained, as I'm not working on indoor |
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positioning at the moment, but I'll happily consider any contribution (or |
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job offer). |
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positioning at the moment, but I'll happily consider any patch (or job offer). |
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The `CHANGELOG` file lists the changes that occurred in OwlPS, version by |
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version, since its early stages. |
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## License |
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OwlPS is free software, released under the terms of the CeCILL license (GNU |
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GPL-compatible). For more detail, please consult `COPYRIGHT.t2t`. |
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OwlPS is free software, released under the terms of the |
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[CeCILL](http://www.cecill.info/index.en.html) license (GNU GPL-compatible). |
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For more detail, please consult `COPYRIGHT.t2t`. |
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## Note on the t2t file extension |
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## Note on the `t2t` file extension |
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Most of the documentation in this repository is provided as text files in the |
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**txt2tags** format (`*.t2t` files). You can convert them to various formats |
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