Multi-Technology Positioning

Introduction and book structure.- MULTI-POS - multi-technology positioning professionals training network.- Understanding the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Signal Model.- GNSS Vulnerabilities.- GNSS Quality of Service in urban environment.- Multi-GNSS: facts and issues.- Towards Seamless Navigation.- Mapping the radio world to find us.- Survey on 5G Positioning.- Formation Control of Multi-agent Systems with Location Uncertainty.- Positioning Technology Applications Related to Environmental Issues.- Context awareness for semantic mobile computing.- The Impact of Galileo Open Service on Location Based Services Markets.- Location Based Services analysis through Analytical Hierarchical Processes - an e-health-based case study.- DroneAlert: Autonomous Drones For Emergency Response.- MULTI-POS - Lessons learnt from fellows and supervisors.- Conclusions.- About the editors.

Jari Nurmi works as a Professor at Tampere University of Technology, Finland since 1999, in the Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering. He is working on embedded computing systems, wireless localization, positioning receiver prototyping, and software-defined radio. He held various research, education and management positions at TUT since 1987 and was the Vice President of the SME VLSI Solution Oy 1995-1998. Since 2013 he is also a partner and co-founder of Ekin Labs Oy, a research spin-off company commercializing technology for human presence detection, now headquartered in Silicon Valley as Radiomaze, Inc. He has supervised 19 PhD and over 130 MSc theses at TUT, and been the opponent or reviewer of 32 PhD theses for other universities worldwide. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of the technical committee on VLSI Systems and Applications at IEEE CAS, and board member of Tampere Convention Bureau. In 2011 he received IIDA Innovation Award, and in 2013 the Scientific Congress Award and HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award. He is a steering committee member of four international conferences, in the chairman position in two. He has edited 5 Springer books, and has published about 350 international conference and journal articles and book chapters. He has participated in the Marie Curie ITN network MULTI-POS as the network coordinator and scientist in charge.
Elena-Simona Lohan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Tampere University of Technology (TUT). She is also a Visiting Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. She received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnics University of Bucharest, Romania, in 1997, a D.E.A. degree (French equivalent of master) in Econometrics, at ´ Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, in 1998, and a Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from TUT, in 2003. She has more than 170 international publications, 3patents and 2 patent