WLAN location determination in e-home via support vector classification

Because of the advanced development in computer technology, home automation system could provide a variety of convenient and novel services to people. But only providing many kinds of services is not enough; instead, upgrading the quality of services is also a very important issue. One way to upgrade the service quality is to customize the service according to the inhabitant's personal situation, and the user location is the key information for the home automation system to customize the services. Another impact of the advanced computer technology is to make the personal digital device to commonly have the capability to communicate through the wireless networks, and the popularity of wireless networks in home has increased in recent years. As a result, home automation system can bring services to personal digital devices held by people through any wireless network, and customize the services according to the location of personal digital device in home. In this paper, we present a location determination system for the home automation system to provide location aware services. This location determination system uses support vector machine to classify the location of a wireless client from its signal strength measures, and we describe its architecture and discuss its performance.

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