WIRELESS CAMPUS LBS A test bed for cartographically aware database objects

The Wireless Campus LBS project has been started in early 2005. It’s an informal cooperation between people at the University of Twente (UT) Computer Architecture Design and Test for Embedded Systems group (Arthur van Bunningen, Kavitha Muthukrishnan, Nirvana Meratnia, Georgi Koprinkov), the UT department of Information Technology, Library & Education (Sander Smit, Jeroen van Ingen Schenau) and the International Institute for GeoInformation Science and Earth Observation (Barend Köbben). The initial ideas for the CampusLBS were reported earlier in the workshop report in [1], its first test phase was executed and reported on during SVG Open 2005, the 4th Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics [2]. The Wireless Campus LBS is intended to serve as a test bed for research as well as to benefit from the outcomes of this research. The research mentioned goes deeper into Wireless LAN positioning techniques, into context awareness of ubiquitous data management system, and into adaptive delivery of mapping information for LBS and mobile applications by using cartographically aware database objects.