This new volume provides an overview of the Internet of Things along with its architectures,
its vital technologies, and their uses in our daily life. The book explores the integration of IoT …

Among the current indoor positioning technologies, Bluetooth low energy (BLE) has gained
increasing attention. In particular, the traditional distance estimation derived from aggregate …

Since commercial and residential buildings have become the largest energy consumers
across all sectors, building energy efficiency has attracted increasing attention in recent …

The menaquinone, siderophore, and tryptophan (MST) enzymes transform chorismate to
generate precursor molecules for the biosynthetic pathways defined in their name. Kinetic …

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) …

Background Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons have been used to track the locations of
individuals in indoor environments for clinical applications such as workflow analysis and …

In a digitally enabled healthcare setting, we posit that an individual's current location is
pivotal for supporting many virtual care services—such as tailoring educational content …

With enormous technological changes over the last decade, modern construction trends
have become more complex and dynamic. This demands that construction professionals be …

This article focuses on the challenging topic of indoor location and guidance in daily tasks of
location and hostile scenarios (ie emergency evacuations) that could be produced, which at …

In the wake of recent COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing has turned out to be an
indispensable technique to help administrative authorities contain localized infections …