As the Internet of Things (IoT) penetrates our everyday lives, being used to address a wide
variety of real-life challenges and problems, the location of things becomes an important …

Technology is continually undergoing a constituent development caused by the appearance
of billions new interconnected “things” and their entrenchment in our daily lives. One of the …

Location-based services (LBS) use positioning technologies to provide individual users with
reachability and accessibility that would otherwise not be available in the conventional …

A new kind of ad hoc network is hitting the streets: Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANets). In
these networks, vehicles communicate with each other and possibly with a roadside …

The purpose of the present study is to build a conceptual model of consumers' willingness to
accept mobile advertising. First, the study investigates factors that influence the acceptance …

The availability of “always-on” communications has tremendous implications for how people
interact socially. In particular, sociologists are interested in the question if such pervasive …

The motivation for every location based information system is:“To assist with the exact
information, at right place in real time with personalized setup and location sensitiveness”. In …

This paper describes a novel healthcare IT platform developed under the LOBIN project,
which allows monitoring several physiological parameters, such as ECG, heart rate, body …

The following presents a simplified Summary of the inven tion in order to provide a basic
understanding of some aspects of the invention. This summary is not an extensive overview …

Wireless networks have displaced the well established and widely deployed wired
communication networks of the past. Tetherless access and new services offered to mobile …