LOCATION INFORMATION

MANAGEMENT

By :
Divya Khanna -09609195
Piyush Jindal –06503863
 Shivani Pandey - 09609007

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INTRODUCTION
A wide range of location sensing technologies
already exist, and more are under development.
All location technologies generate sensor
events in response to changes in the locations
of locatable objects.
The rate at which they are generated is high,
especially for high precision location
technologies.

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 The research into location information
management presented in this case is part
of the QoSDREAM project.

 QoSDREAM aims to provide a middleware

platform for developing distributed
multimedia applications.

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 Figure. OVERVIEW OF QoSDREAM’s
ARCHITECTURE

Context
application application application
aware
application
Multimedia services
Object
Event service data base
QoS Dream manager
middleware Location service

Active mobile Bats

badge phone service
service location
service
Location and
context sensor
system

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The major constituents of the QoSDREAM architecture consists of four
major parts :

 At the lowest level there is the Location Service It is in charge of gathering

location information from specific location-technologies and presenting it to
the rest of the system in a location-technology independent fashion.
 This information is made available to the rest of the system and applications
through an Event Messaging System.

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 The Distributed Multimedia Service allows applications to construct
and manage, distributed multimedia components.
 The Distributed Object Database Management Service provides a
means of sharing system wide properties such as information about known
physical objects. However data stored is largely static.

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Location Information
Location Service provides location-dependent information. The Location Service is
a collection of objects that retrieve location information from existing location
sensors and make this information available to QoSDREAM applications.

Modelling Location Information

This model contains the following abstractions:
Locators : which represent objects whose location can be determined by a given
location-technology. Active badges and Bats are examples of Locators.
Locatable : these represent objects whose locations need to be tracked. Examples
include people and equipment.
Locatable Regions : These regions define various location specific characteristics
of Locatable.
The main reason for using regions as a way of presenting location information is the
varying degree of precision of location technologies.

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Location Service
 Manages Location Information

Location Service Architecture

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Functioning of the elements
 Federator: Detect and interpret data generated
by location sensing technology
 Federator Events: Light-weight events
(generated information) sent to Spatial
Relations Manager(SRM)
 Location Modules: Translate Federator events
into regions and pass it to SRM
 Spatial Relations Manager: Analyze the
updated regions for changes in overlaps
between them. If found then produces Raw
Overlap Events

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Functioning of the elements
(Contd.)
 Raw Overlap Events: Contain the type of
overlap between two regions as well as their
previous relationship
 Event Adaptors: Filter Raw Overlap events,
that are of interest to applications
 Overlap Events: Filtered events generated
by Event Adaptors and transmitted by Event
Messaging Service to applications

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Types of Event Adapters
 Person Movement Adaptor: Generates overlap
events when a person’s location region overlaps
with a geographical location
 Person Overlap Adapter: Generates overlap
events when a person’s location region overlaps
with that of another.
 Equipment Overlap Adapter: Generates overlap
events when a person’s location region overlaps
with that of an equipment

 E.g. application interested in the arrival of a person

at work

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Event Messaging Service
 Allows clients to request the delivery of
events without having to know anything
about the sources of these events
 Allows applications to specify filters on the
events that are sent to it.

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Active Lab application
 To use as a communications aid
 Uses location information provided by the
Active Badge System deployed in the lab
 Traffic was measured over a five minute
interval and at the time there were six
members of the lab wearing badges
 Application registers interest only in Person
Movement events

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Location related traffic
 Badge Events (Federator Events)- 671
 Raw Overlap Events- 204
 Person Movement Events- 12
 Person Overlap Events- 40
 Equipment Overlap Events- 48

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Conclusion
 QoSDREAM is a software framework that
supports the construction of context-aware
multimedia applications
 Location events are integrated through the
generation of overlap events
 Great reduction in location-related traffic for
the applications

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 Thank You

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