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    Project BlueStar
   Smart Internet Technology Research Group

Employment Opportunity: Software Engineer
Applications close 31/7/03
Salary Range, 51,000 - 60,000 base salary (depending of experience)

Project BlueStar: Scaleable end-to-end location awareness

  • Privacy enhanced multi-granularity location-aware mapping and data delivery
  • Obtain approximate location information from GSM network or using Assisted GPS
  • Use local location technology to determine actual position
  • Fine-grained position information remains under the user’s control


Project Funding Partners


Project Duration

  • July 2003 - June 2004

Research Project Team

Usyd SIT PhD scholars

  • Mark Assad, Mike Avery, David Carmichael, Derek Corbett, Dan Cutting, Adam Hudson, Daren Ler

 

BlueStar Positioning

Mobile Positioning

  • GPS, Assisted & Differential, Limitations: Computationally expensive, US military control, limited in-doors
  • Network Centric, Time of Arrival, Limitations: Low precision, cell size dependant, privacy issues
  • Beacons, WiFi triangulation, infrared, Limitations: Infrastructure cost, privacy issues, jamming

Contacts

Dr Aaron Quigley, G40a Madsen Building, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Australia

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