Events — Colloquia & Seminars
The Cricket Indoor Location System
Speaker: Hari Balakrishnan, EECS, MIT
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Talk: 12:00 PM, 366 West Village H
Abstract
There are many applications ranging from pervasive computing to sensor networks where access to accurate location information is important. Although the Global Positioning System (GPS) is an excellent technology for outdoor environments, it does not work well indoors or in urban areas around tall buildings. Cricket is a system that provides accurate location information to mobile and sensor devices indoors. This talk will describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of Cricket, highlighting both Cricket's algorithms and some of its mobile and sensor computing applications. Cricket units are now commercially available; its software is obtainable under an open source license. See http://cricket.csail.mit.edu/
Brief Biography
Hari Balakrishnan studied at IIT Madras (B. Tech., '93) and UC Berkeley (PhD, '98). He is now an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Networks and Mobile Systems Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. His research interests are in networked computer systems, including resilient networking, wireless networks, sensor and location-aware computing, and large-scale systems. His honours include the ACM doctoral dissertation award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, MIT's Harold Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, two MOBICOM Best Paper Awards, and the IEEE Communication Society's William R. Bennett Prize.