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CarpetLAN: A Novel Indoor Wireless(-like) Networking and Positioning System

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UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005)

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CarpetLAN is a novel indoor wireless(-like) broad-band networking and positioning system. It uses the floor surface and the human body as an Ethernet-cable, and weak electric fields as the transmission media. Portable and wearable devices can connect to the network while the user stands or walks on the floor; connection speed is 10Mbps. Home and office appliances can also access the network if they are just put on the floor. CarpetLAN also provides an indoor positioning function, which is urgently needed for realizing “ubiquitous” communication. This electric field based transmission system yields ultra-micro communication cells, so the positions of humans and appliances can be detected with about 1 meter accuracy.

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  1. NTT DoCoMo Multimedia Labs, 3-5, Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 239-8536, Japan

    Masaaki Fukumoto

  2. NTT Microsystem Integration Labs, 3-1, Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 243-0198, Japan

    Mitsuru Shinagawa

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  1. Distributed and Ubiquitous Systems, Muehlenpfordtstr. 23, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Michael Beigl

  2. House_n, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, One Cambridge Center, 4FL, 02142, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Stephen Intille

  3. Interaction Laboratory, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., 3-14-13 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, 141-0022, Tokyo, Japan

    Jun Rekimoto

  4. Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, 5322, Endo, Fujisawa, 252-8520, Kanagawa, Japan

    Hideyuki Tokuda

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Fukumoto, M., Shinagawa, M. (2005). CarpetLAN: A Novel Indoor Wireless(-like) Networking and Positioning System. In: Beigl, M., Intille, S., Rekimoto, J., Tokuda, H. (eds) UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3660. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551201_1

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