Localization Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Portable computing and portable communications are rapidly becoming the norm in the market of electronic systems. As a consequence of this, an ecosystem of applications that are somehow linked to location is growing, both in the market and in academia. A broad range of vertical sectors benefit from these applications, such as the manufacturing industry, Smart Cities, travel services or autonomous vehicles. At the core of these applications resides a set of technologies that exploit diverse resources in order to provide a reliable location. However, providing location is not a trivial problem, nor does it come at a low cost. Therefore, location is currently a hot topic in the research community. It is also a very broad topic, both in use cases and technologies that are exploited to provide location: satellite-based systems, wireless network location, sensors, video-based location (which is often intertwined with object recognition), etc. This Special Issue aims at providing a multi-disciplinary picture of the current state of location technologies. Contributions that describe and characterize novel use cases for location technologies, analyze current and emerging technologies, propose improvements on already existing solutions with techniques, such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, or that propose radical new approaches, based on novel devices, are welcome.

Dr. Emil J. Khatib
Dr. Nurul Huda Mahmood
Dr. Mythri Hunukumbure
Dr. Carlos Morais de Lima
Guest Editors

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• Location technologies, Location awareness
• Location tracking
• Wireless networks
• Artificial Intelligence