Biography
Biography: Norman Shaw
Abstract
Background: Since the 1990’s, location technology has been a mandated feature of commercial wireless networks (in the US) asrna consequence of the FCC’s E-911 service requirements. Support for this mandate has been a challenge for all wireless servicernproviders, throughout the last decade. The challenges stem from a number of technical, environmental, and market realities. Thesernchallenges, as well as the technical development that has gone on to help address them, will be the focus of this presentation.rnSummary: There are a number of different technologies currently employed for wireless location. These technologies can bernbroadly grouped into categories of: “satellite” or “terrestrial”, “handset based” or “network based”, and “trilateration/triangulation”rnor “pattern matching”. Each technology group comes with benefits and challenges and each has performance that is largely dictatedrnby the local environment and morphologies (e.g. urban/rural, in -building/open-sky).This presentation will provide a technicalrnassessment of each of the technology groups and specific technologies and will relate their capabilities. The evaluation will includernoperation of the technologies independently, as well as in combination “hybrid” operation.
