Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Partners

Starting with the PERSPOS project (BQR Grenoble INP 2008-2009) PRIMA has a long standing collaboration the MICA center (UMI 2954 CNRS). Our current goal is to develop the concept of "large-scale" perceptive space that is an intelligent environment which will be deployed on a large surface containing several buildings (as a university campus for example). The user is assumed to wear one or many mobile intelligent wireless devices (telephone, Smartphone, PDA, notebook). Using these devices, one can use many different applications (read emails, browse the Internet, file exchange, etc.). By combining the concepts of large-scale perceptive environments and mobile computing, we can create intelligent spaces to propose services adapted to individuals and their activities. Our collaboration is focussing the user location within such a smart space.

Tracking people in smart environments remains a challenging fundamental problem. Whether it is at the scale of a campus, of a building or more simply of a room, we can dynamicaly combine several localization levels (and several technologies) to allow a more accurate and reliable user localization system. This collaboration was concrete with the Ph.D. thesis from Han Yue (started in November 2008). This thesis was co-supervided between Grenoble INP and Hanoi Polytechnical Institute.