Presence and IntComm WG

[Deke Kassabian <>]

--On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:17 PM -0400 Jeremy George 
<> wrote:

> If some kind soul would take Session on the Mac out
> for a spin that would be great.

Okay, that's me.  I've used Session 2.1 under MacOS X
registered with our own local SER implementation, and can
try it out against ser.uits.indiana.edu tomorrow.

meanwhile,

--On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:09 PM -0400 Jamey Hicks 
<> wrote:

> [...] I thought I'd update on the signal strength
> scanning and skiff work.
>
> 1) we have 5 or so ipaqs scanning signal strength and we're working on
> characterization of the response so that hopefully we do not have to do
> a lot of on-site training/calibration to make signal strenght
> measurements to position.
>
> 2) We have linux 2.4.18-rmk7 running on the skiffs now and have pcmcia
> cards working, so the skiffs are ready to be put in service for
> scanning.

This is so terribly cool.  Really.  The prospect that we might
actually have real location services at the member meeting for
mobile laptops is a very exciting possibility.

How many skiffs will we need to do the job at the conference hotel?
Is position determination in 3 dimensions, not just 2, available?
How hard is it to go from coordinates information to a room?

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Deke Kassabian,  Senior Technology Director
Information Systems and Computing, Networking and Telecommunications
University of Pennsylvania   <URL:http://www.isc-net.upenn.edu/~deke>

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