Indoor wireless localization using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons has attracted
considerable attention due to its extensive distribution and low cost properties. This article …

Some of the recent developments in data science for worldwide disease control have
involved research of large-scale feasibility and usefulness of digital contact tracing, user …

Intelligent unmanned systems have important applications, such as pesticide-spraying in
agriculture, robot-based warehouse management systems, and missile-firing drones. The …

While contact tracing is of paramount importance in preventing the spreading of infectious
diseases, manual contact tracing is inefficient and time consuming as those in close contact …

Estimating the distance between two smartphones plays an important role in a host of
applications. For this purpose, smartphones emit and scan for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) …

With the latest standard releases, Bluetooth technology is becoming more and more relevant
for building and industrial automation. At the same time, Bluetooth is now becoming …

This paper presents a nonlinear location estimation to infer the position of a user holding a
smartphone. We consider a large location with number of grid points, each grid point is …

The recent pandemic revealed weaknesses in several areas, including the limited capacity
of public health systems for efficient case tracking and reporting. In the post-pandemic era, it …

Indoor localization technologies are actively investigated to realize location-based
applications in various environments, and indoor localization methods based on whether the …

Several innovative applications could be advantageously placed within social networks, to
be effective, attractive, and pervasive. Examples of application domains that could benefit …