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程序：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，尽早完成定位至关重要。这是为了确保目标的位置对于LBS应用仍然有效。在战场、水下、隧道、建筑物等GPS不可用（干扰、遮挡或破坏）的环境中，现有的相对定位技术面临着定位时延长的问题，而传统定位要求的本质又无法克服这一缺点。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锚/参考节点，这些节点已经知道他们的位置，以减少本地化时间。但是，锚/参考节点的部署是昂贵的，有时仍然不能满足关键的时间要求。因此，拟议的创新，将提供解决方案，为那些客户谁有时间关键的位置为基础的应用程序运行在GPS免费environments.The I-Corps团队项目的目标是开发一个可行的计划，商业化的快速定位技术，并开发一个团队能够执行该计划。由一名学术研究人员、一名少数民族创业领袖、一名经验丰富的少数民族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。该项目的智力价值在于快速定位平台的新颖设计。如果成功，将该平台应用于许多领域，以改善其基于位置的应用程序的高回报：可用性，准确性，完整性和效率。PI预计，随着现有应用和新兴应用的革命性变化，市场将变得非常重要。所提出的创新可以被工业和军队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。该团队预计市场将随着现有应用和新兴应用的革命性变化而增长。该团队还将不断改进/调整技术，同时根据他们的反馈，需求和收集的数据采访潜在客户。拟议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.