English

Noun

microlocation ‎(countable and uncountable, plural microlocations)

1. Alternative form of micro-location
   • 2001, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office:

     A method for electronically transporting a charged entity in a solution from a first microlocation to a second microlocation, each individual microlocation serving to electronically control transport of said charged entity to a microlocation, ...

   • 2003, Johan Hjelm, Creating Location Services for the Wireless Web, ISBN 0471458066, page 40:

     And it is not possible to use the same data as in the mobile network if the network operator is not providing the system (because you cannot connect to the databases otherwise), and so you cannot do seamless handover from an outdoor position based on the mobile telephone network to an indoor network based on microlocation beacons.

   • 2013, Nilgun B. Harmancioglu, ‎Vijay Singh, & ‎M.N. Alpaslan, Environmental Data Management, ISBN 9401590567:

     Sanders et al. (1983) claim that, in practice, microlocation a representative sampling with respect to station location are not sufficiently evaluated by monitoring agencies.