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Indoor Position—Opportunities and Technologies for a New Age

By Prof Gary Chan

Date:	26 Mar 2015

Time:	12:30 pm - 2 pm (Lunch included)

Venue:	HKUST Business School Central 15/F, Hong Kong Club Building 3A Charter Road, Central, Hong Kong.

Remarks:	Limited seats and first-come-first served. Priority is given to new comers. Registration starts one month before the talk.

Enquires:	2358 5019 / science.for.lunch@ust.hk

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In the real estate business, the key catchphrase is “Location, location, location”. Knowing the location of users can be just as advantageous for other commercial applications. Outdoors, we may use GPS, itself already a lucrative market. But indoors, GPS is unhelpful due to signal unavailability. The challenge is to develop a technology that pin-points users’ indoor location which can translate into a wide variety of location-based services and high commercial potential. At HKUST, we have been developing indoor position technologies that locate potential users with high accuracy. In this talk, the speaker will walk you through the market opportunities and technologies of indoor location. Together they promise to be the “next big thing”.

Prof Gary Chan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Prof Gary Chan, a Full Professor and Undergraduate Programs Director at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST, has an impeccable academic record, armed with a first-class honor BSE degree in Electrical Engineering, with certificates in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Engineering Physics, and Engineering and Management Systems from Princeton University, followed by MSE and PhD degrees from Stanford University. He was born for the digital age. His research interests are the stuff of 21st century living: mobile computing, multimedia networking and wireless networks. These research results are finding their way to an ever-widening circle of commercial users through his close industry partnership.