Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

FIREFLIES RTLS

Participants : Laurent Ciarletta [ contact ] , Cyril Auburtin.

Dates

March 2009 - December 2013

Partners

FIREFLIES RTLS

As part of our effort in Pervasive Computing research, we've started to work with Firelies RTLS, a French startup specialized in advanced geolocation services. They aim at providing long-term and resilient location service for high value assets using active RFID tags. This work has built on previous work driven by Laurent Ciarletta at the Ecole des Mines de Nancy in the wireless-based geolocation techniques. It has been initatied by a 6 months research project around the fundamentals of geolocation using wireless technologies, in parallels with the discovery and use of dedicated hardware chosen by Fireflies. It has been extended by a 3 months engineer work until the end of 2009 to develop a working prototype and will be followed by a long term (3 years) research contract starting in january 2010. Due to intellectual properties issues, detailed information regarding this project will be given with a 1 year delay.