This course addresses Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and (indoor) positioning technologies for sensing people, devices, and assets in the built environment with the focus on location-aware applications. The course covers the requirements and context for these location-aware applications: global, local, and linear reference systems, coordinate systems and map projections, positioning methods and techniques, and the social and technical push and legislative pull factors that empower the development of location-based services.
After the course Positioning and Location Awareness the student is able to:
1. Understand location awareness, location sensitivity, context awareness;
2. Understand the different types of reference systems: global, local (Dutch), linear;
3. Understand the ethical and legislative factors of methods for location awareness;
4. Apply different coordinate systems, positioning, and indoor localisation;
5. Evaluate different technologies to support location awareness on their technical performance (availability, accuracy, integrity, continuity), and their ethical factors and legislative factors (privacy issues).
