ProfessorChris Bleakley

Dr Bleakley's research focuses on pervasive computing, in particular indoor positioning systems and networked embedded systems.

Ubiquitous computing is founded on the concept that as computers become smaller, they will become invisibly embedded in our everyday lives and surroundings such that computing will be effortlessly available anytime, everywhere.

Indoor positioning research seeks to build systems which accurately determine the location of devices in 3D space within buildings. GPS provides device position outdoors but does not work indoors due to the attenuation of the satellite radio signals by the building fabric. Dr Bleakley's research group has developed cutting edge high accuracy indoor positioning systems including small form factor ultrasonic, angle of arrival ultrasonic, robust ultrasonic, inertial measurement fusion, antenna array based WiFi fingerprinting, and time based WiFi location.

Networked embedded systems research seeks to reduce the power consumption, increase the reliability, and enhance the performance of small form factor computers. Dr Bleakley's team has developed multiple novel techniques and tools to met these objectives based on energy efficient application specific processors, power estimation tools, data compression, network scheduling algorithms, automatic fault detection and automatic fault correction for soft errors.