I-Corps: Rapid Localization Platform for Self-Organized Networking Systems

基于位置的服务(LBS)是网络系统中最流行的应用类型之一。顾名思义，LBS应用的成功取决于两个流水线过程：本地化和信息传输。与相对静态的网络不同，在用户不断改变位置的网络中，尽早实现本地化至关重要。这是为了确保目标的头寸对LBS申请仍然有效。在GPS不可用(受干扰、被封锁或被摧毁)的环境中，如在战场、水下、隧道和建筑物中，当前的相对定位技术面临着长期的定位延迟，由于传统定位要求的性质，这一缺点无法克服。对基于位置的应用程序有关键时间要求的客户必须密集部署已经知道其位置的锚/参考节点，以减少本地化时间。然而，锚/参考节点的部署成本较高，有时仍不能满足关键时间要求。因此，这项拟议的创新将为那些在没有GPS的环境中运行基于时间关键位置的应用程序的客户提供解决方案。i-Corps Teams项目的目标是制定一个可行的计划，将快速定位技术商业化，并发展一支能够执行该计划的团队。一个由一名学术研究人员、一名少数族裔创业领袖以及一名经验丰富的少数族裔和女性行业导师组成的团队将在商业模式、营销和寻求资金方面密切合作。该项目的智能化优点在于快速定位平台的设计新颖。如果成功，将该平台应用到许多领域，以改进其基于位置的应用程序：可用性、准确性、完整性和效率，将会有很高的回报。PI预计，随着现有市场的革命性变化和不断涌现的新应用，市场将具有重大意义。拟议的创新可被业界和军方在其未来的设计和协议中采用，以增强基于位置的服务的可用性和完整性。该团队预计，随着现有应用程序和新兴新应用程序的革命性变化，市场将会增长。该团队还将根据潜在客户的反馈、需求和收集的数据，在采访潜在客户的同时不断改进/调整技术。提议的创新可能产生的相关产品可能包括协议、系统、附加组件、许可和服务。

The Location Based Service (LBS) is one of the most popular types of applications in networking systems. As the name suggests, the success of a LBS application depends on two pipelined procedures: localization and information transmission. Unlike in relatively static networks, it is crucial to accomplish localization as early as possible in networks where users continually change their positions. This is to ensure that the targets' positions are still valid for LBS applications. In the environments, where GPS is not available (interfered, blocked, or destroyed), such as in battlefields, underwater, tunnels, and buildings, the current relative localization techniques are facing long localization delays, and this drawback cannot be overcome because of the nature of conventional localization requirements. Customers who have critical time requirements on location-based applications have to densely deploy anchor/reference nodes, which already know their locations, to reduce the localization time. However, the deployment of anchor/reference nodes is expensive, and it sometimes still cannot meet the critical time requirements. The proposed innovation, therefore, will provide solutions for those customers who have time-critical location based applications running in GPS free environments.The goal of this I-Corps Teams project is to develop a feasible plan to commercialize the rapid localization techniques and develop a team to be capable of executing the plan. A team consisted of an academic researcher, a minority entrepreneurial lead, and an experienced minority and female industry mentor will closely work on business models, marketing, and seeking funding. The project intellectual merit lies in a novel design of the rapid localization platform. If successful, there will be a high-reward of applying the platform to many areas to improve their location based applications: availability, accuracy, integrity, and efficiency. The PI expects the market to be significant with revolutionary changes from existing ones and emerging new applications. The proposed innovation can be adopted by the industry and the military in their future designs and protocols for enhancing location-based services availability and integrity. The team expects the market to grow with revolutionary changes from existing applications and emerging new applications. The team will also keep improving/adjusting the technique while interviewing potential customers based on their feedbacks, needs, and data collected. The relevant products which may result from the proposed innovation may include protocols, systems, add-ons, licensing, and services.