The active badge system (abstract)
Published 1 January 1993
Andy Hopper, Andy Harter, Tom Blackie
Citations43
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The Active Badge is used to provide information about where people are and can receive which makes possible a more secure system by using a one-way authentication function.
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ACM Transactions on Information SystemsThe active badge location system
3,791 Citations1992Roy Want, Andy Hopper +2 more
A novel system for the location of people in an office environment is described, where members of staff wear badges that transmit signals providing information about their location to a centralized location service, through a network of sensors.
IEEE Transactions on Consumer ElectronicsActive badges and personal interactive computing objects
156 Citations1992Roy Want, A. Hopper
A family of personal active badges developed for location of people and devices in the computer environment and a speculative discussion of how such devices may be used in the traditional computing environment is given.