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The aim of COMPASS (short for COM mon Positioning Architecture for Several Sensors) is to realize a location infrastructure which can make use of a multitude of different sensors and combine their output in a meaningful way to produce a so called Probability Distribution Function (PDF) that describes the location of a user or device as coordinates and corresponding location probabilities. Furthermore, COMPASS includes a so called translator service, i.e. a build-in component that translates PDFs (or coordinates) to meaningful location identifiers like building names and/or room numbers. This paper gives a short overview on the goals and abilities of COMPASS.
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Kargl, F., Bernauer, A. (2005). The COMPASS Location System. In: Strang, T., Linnhoff-Popien, C. (eds) Location- and Context-Awareness. LoCA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3479. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11426646_10
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