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(ii) evidence submitted in support of
allegations; (iii) publicly available
information to value factors under 19
CFR 351.408(c) or to measure the
adequacy of remuneration under 19 CFR
351.511(a)(2); (iv) evidence placed on
the record by the Department; and (v)
evidence other than factual information
described in (i)–(iv). 19 CFR 351.301(b)
requires any party, when submitting
factual information, to specify under
which subsection of 19 CFR
351.102(b)(21) the information is being
submitted 34 and, if the information is
submitted to rebut, clarify, or correct
factual information already on the
record, to provide an explanation
identifying the information already on
the record that the factual information
seeks to rebut, clarify, or correct.35 Time
limits for the submission of factual
information are addressed in 19 CFR
351.301, which provides specific time
limits based on the type of factual
information being submitted. Interested
parties should review the regulations
prior to submitting factual information
in this investigation.
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time limits before the expiration of a
time limit established under 19 CFR
351.301, or as otherwise specified by the
Secretary. In general, an extension
request will be considered untimely if it
is filed after the expiration of the time
limit established under 19 CFR 351.301.
For submissions that are due from
multiple parties simultaneously, an
extension request will be considered
untimely if it is filed after 10:00 a.m. ET
on the due date. Under certain
circumstances, we may elect to specify
a different time limit by which
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such a case, we will inform parties in
the letter or memorandum setting forth
the deadline (including a specified time)
by which extension requests must be
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extension request must be made in a
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limited circumstances we will grant
untimely-filed requests for the extension
of time limits. Parties should review
Extension of Time Limits; Final Rule, 78
FR 57790 (September 20, 2013),
available at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/
pkg/FR-2013-09-20/html/201322853.htm, prior to submitting factual
information in this investigation.
34 See
35 See
19 CFR 351.301(b).
19 CFR 351.301(b)(2).
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Certification Requirements
Any party submitting factual
information in an AD or CVD
proceeding must certify to the accuracy
and completeness of that information.36
Parties are hereby reminded that revised
certification requirements are in effect
for company/government officials, as
well as their representatives.37
Investigations initiated on the basis of
the petition filed on or after August 16,
2013, and other segments of any AD or
CVD proceedings initiated on or after
August 16, 2013, should use the formats
for the revised certifications provided in
19 CFR 351.303(g). The Department
intends to reject factual submissions if
the submitting party does not comply
with the applicable revised certification
requirements.
Notification to Interested Parties
Interested parties must submit
applications for disclosure under APO
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. On
January 22, 2008, the Department
published Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Documents Submission Procedures;
APO Procedures, 73 FR 3634 (January
22, 2008). Parties wishing to participate
in this investigation should ensure that
they meet the requirements of these
procedures (e.g., the filing of letters of
appearance as discussed at 19 CFR
351.103(d)).
This notice is issued and published
pursuant to sections 702 and 777(i) of
the Act, and 19 CFR 351.203(c).
Dated: October 25, 2017.
Gary Taverman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations,
performing the non-exclusive functions and
duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
Scope of the Investigation
The merchandise covered by this
investigation is carbon and alloy forged steel
fittings, whether unfinished (commonly
known as blanks or rough forgings) or
finished. Such fittings are made in a variety
of shapes including, but not limited to,
elbows, tees, crosses, laterals, couplings,
reducers, caps, plugs, bushings and unions.
Forged steel fittings are covered regardless of
end finish, whether threaded, socket-weld or
other end connections.
While these fittings are generally
manufactured to specifications ASME
36 See
section 782(b) of the Act.
Certification of Factual Information to
Import Administration During Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 42678 (July
17, 2013) (‘‘Final Rule’’); see also frequently asked
questions regarding the Final Rule, available at
https://enforcement.trade.gov/tlei/notices/factual_
info_final_rule_FAQ_07172013.pdf.
37 See
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B16.11, MSS SP–79, and MSS SP–83, ASTM
A105, ASTM A350 and ASTM A182, the
scope is not limited to fittings made to these
specifications.
The term forged is an industry term used
to describe a class of products included in
applicable standards, and does not reference
an exclusive manufacturing process. Forged
steel fittings are not manufactured from
casting. Pursuant to the applicable standards,
fittings may alsobe machined from bar stock
or machined from seamless pipe and tube.
All types of fittings are included in the
scope regardless of nominal pipe size (which
may or may not be expressed in inches of
nominal pipe size), pressure rating (usually,
but not necessarily expressed in pounds of
pressure, e.g., 2,000 or 2M; 3,000 or 3M;
6,000 or 6M; 9,000 or 9M), wall thickness,
and whether or not heat treated.
Excluded from this scope are all fittings
entirely made of stainless steel. Also
excluded are flanges, butt weld fittings, and
nipples.
Subject carbon and alloy forged steel
fittings are normally entered under HTSUS
7307.99.1000, 7307.99.3000, 7307.99.5045,
and 7307.99.5060. They also may be entered
under HTSUS 7307.92.3010, 7307.92.3030,
7307.92.9000, and 7326.19.0010.
The HTSUS subheadings and
specifications are provided for convenience
and customs purposes; the written
description of the scope is dispositive.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Notice of Localization and Tracking
System Testing Consortium
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Research Consortium.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), an
agency of the United States Department
of Commerce, is establishing the
Localization and Tracking System (LTS)
Testing Consortium and invites
organizations to participate in this
Consortium. Participants in this
Consortium will have the opportunity to
test their LTS leveraging a unique
capability on the NIST Gaithersburg
campus. The goals of the LTS Testing
Consortium are to demonstrate and
further develop standardized
localization and tracking system testing
procedures, and to assess current state
of the art. The LTS Testing Consortium
will not evaluate whether any
individual system is commercially
feasible. Participants in the Consortium
will be required to sign a Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA).
SUMMARY:
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Letters of interest for
participation in this LTS Testing
Consortium will be accepted until
December 15, 2017. LTS testing is
expected to occur in April or May 2018,
with a pre-event workshop in February,
however dates are subject to change.
ADDRESSES: Letters of interest and
requests for additional information can
be directed to the NIST LTS Testing
Consortium Manager, Nader Moayeri, of
the Advanced Network Technologies
Division of NIST’s Information
Technology Laboratory. Nader
Moayeri’s contact information are NIST,
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8920,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8920, USA,
email: nader.moayeri@nist.gov, and
telephone: +1 301–975–3767.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information regarding the terms
and conditions of NIST’s CRADA,
please contact Jeffrey DiVietro, CRADA
and License Officer, NIST’s Technology
Partnerships Office, by mail to 100
Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 2200,
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899–2200, by
email to jeffrey.divietro@nist.gov, or by
telephone at +1 301–975–8779.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Consortium Objectives: ISO/IEC JTC 1/
SC 31 1 has developed the international
standard, ISO/IEC 18305, ‘‘Test and
evaluation of localization and tracking
systems’’ that addresses test methods
with performance metrics and considers
environmental factors and usage
scenarios expected in the field. NIST’s
objectives under this LTS Testing
Consortium are to plan and conduct
Test and Evaluation (T&E) activities
based on ISO/IEC 18305. Goals of the
T&E activities include:
1. Assessment of ISO/IEC 18305 to
identify improvements that can be
incorporated into the next version of the
standard; and
2. Assessment of LTS technologies
using the standardized test methods of
ISO/IEC 18305 for the dual purposes of
comparing technologies to identify
strengths and weaknesses of various
technological approaches and solutions,
and to make it possible for Consortium
Members to use that information as a
basis for further developing their LTS.
The results from the LTS Testing
Consortium will allow the validation of
ISO/IEC 18305. The results will also
allow setting minimum performance
requirements for various applications of
LTS technology and enable comparisons
based on common test methods. Results
from this research are expected to
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1 International Organization of Standardization/
International Electrotechnical Commission/Joint
Technical Committee 1/Subcommittee 31.
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improve the performance of LTS
technologies.
Background Information: Indoor
localization is the capability to
determine/estimate the location of an
entity to be localized or tracked (ELT),
such as a person, a robot, or some other
object equipped with an appropriate
electronic device 2 in buildings and
subterranean structures such as tunnels,
caves, and underground mines.
Tracking is the capability to estimate the
location of such ELT on an ongoing
basis and making the location
information available to a tracking
authority. Localization and tracking,
whether indoors or outdoors, has
applications in a wide range of domains
including public safety, manufacturing,
construction, health care, entertainment,
social networking, building automation,
and defense.
Testing a LTS is complicated for
several reasons:
• There are many categories of LTS.
Some rely on presence of electronic
infrastructure in the environment
(building/tunnel/cave/underground
mine) to facilitate localization and
tracking. Some systems require sitespecific training and calibration before
they can be used. Some systems need to
have access to the floor plans of the
building or need to know the global
coordinates of its boundaries to operate.
Therefore, one must be careful when
comparing the performance of various
systems to ensure the comparisons are
fair.
• A LTS often has RF components. RF
propagation can vary considerably from
one building to another depending on
the construction material used in the
building, its floor plans, and objects
present in the building. Therefore, the
LTS must be tested in a variety of
buildings, including a high rise, because
a LTS typically has more difficulty in
estimating the floor where the ELT is
located than in estimating its horizontal
location.
• Given that the inertial sensors
present in ubiquitous smartphones and
other devices used for localization suffer
from ‘‘drift’’ that worsens over time, it
is important to test the LTS using long
test scenarios, complex paths, different
modes of mobility (e.g., walking,
running, sidestepping, walking
backwards, and crawling) and speeds of
movement. Therefore, the use of large
buildings is a prerequisite for a welldesigned testing procedure.
2 It is also possible to have such capability using
cameras installed in the environment. In that case,
there is no need for the person, robot, or other
object to be equipped with an electronic device.
However, such imaging-based techniques are
beyond the scope of the LTS Testing Consortium.
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Considering the complexities of
indoor localization testing above,
vendors may not have the opportunity
to test their LTS in a thorough and
comprehensive manner. Therefore,
potential users may be unable to
determine whether a given LTS meets
their needs. These issues demonstrate
the need for standardized testing
procedures that can be used to test and
compare localization and tracking
systems.
Test and Evaluation (T&E) Activities:
NIST intends to hold a pre-event
workshop for participants of the
Consortium to prepare for the T&E
activities. NIST anticipates the test
event will take place over a period of
two weeks (ten business days) about two
months after the workshop. Each LTS
will be tested over the course of 3–5
days during one of the two weeks.
During the two-week T&E event, each
LTS will be tested under NIST
supervision by the participating
company staff members according to the
procedures of ISO/IEC 18305. Lessons
learned from testing will be used to
make modifications to the testing
procedures and corresponding future
revisions in ISO/IEC 18305. Going
forward, NIST intends to use the same
set of buildings so that future testing
will indicate the industry’s
improvements in performance of indoor
localization and tracking systems.
Participation in this LTS Testing
Consortium does not guarantee
participation in future testing activities.
Methodology: To the extent possible,
NIST has chosen structures on its
Gaithersburg, MD campus according to
the guidelines specified in ISO/IEC
18305. NIST has instrumented the
structures with one-inch diameter,
circular floor markers. Locations of the
floor markers have been surveyed by a
professional surveying company using
precision laser surveying equipment. In
addition, the locations of ∼200 Wi-Fi
Access Points (APs) in these buildings
have been surveyed and the Wi-Fi AP
location information will be made
available to Consortium Members solely
for use in the Consortium and by each
Consortium Member’s LTS that will be
tested at the T&E event. Multiple tracks,
each consisting of a set of floor markers,
will be used to test each LTS. By
comparing the ground truth 3D
coordinates of each floor marker with
the estimate of the 3D location provided
by the LTS under test, the estimation
error can be computed and statistical
analysis on the error done using the
performance metrics specified in ISO/
IEC 18305.
Application Process: Interested
parties should contact NIST using the
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information provided in the ADDRESSES
section. NIST will then provide each
interested party with a letter of interest
template, which the party must
complete and submit to NIST. Each
party’s letter of interest must include
the following information:
1. Whether the LTS to be tested is
commercially available now or at an
advanced productization stages so that
it would be commercially available by
the end of 2018.
2. Market the indoor LTS is targeting.
3. Given that large buildings will be
used for testing, whether the number of
units available to install in these
buildings is sufficient for the system to
go through a suite of tests, one building
at a time. (As a point of information, the
largest building to be used for testing
covers 100,000 square feet of space.)
4. The willingness and ability to send
an adequate number of staff members to
install and uninstall the indoor LTS in
test buildings and operate the
equipment to administer the tests under
NIST supervision for a period of about
3 days. If for any reason a LTS runs into
technical problems and cannot complete
the tests in each building in the allotted
time slot, NIST has designated the last
two days of the week as ‘‘make-up
days’’, where tests that were not
completed in their allotted time slots
can be redone. NIST will not be
responsible for shipping equipment to
NIST and back to your company.
5. Willingness to provide all data form
T&E activities to the NIST Consortium
Manager for purposes of this project.
6. A statement regarding whether the
LTS requires deployment of equipment
inside/outside a building in order to be
tested; please specify the types of
equipment that need to be deployed and
how many per every 10,000 square feet
of space.
7. If the LTS uses RF technology,
please specify the frequency band(s) and
power levels the LTS uses.
8. Whether the installation,
uninstallation, or operation of the LTS
is likely to cause damage of any type to
the buildings or furnishing during
testing.
Letters of interest may be submitted to
the LTS Testing Consortium Manager
electronically using the email address
provided in the ADDRESSES section.
Letters of interest must include the
name of the organization and the name
and contact information for an official
representing the organization. Letters of
interest must not include any
confidential information. NIST will not
treat any information provided in the
letters of interest as confidential or
proprietary. NIST will review the letters
of interest from each organization
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received prior to the closing date
provided in the DATES section.
Eligibility will be determined based on
the information provided by the
organization in response to the above
request for specific information. NIST
will notify an applicant in writing of its
eligibility to participate in the LTS
Testing Consortium. To participate, the
eligible applicant will be required to
sign a Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement (CRADA) with
NIST. Each participant’s CRADA will
have identical terms and conditions that
are consistent with the requirements of
Title 15, United States Code, Chapter
63, Section 3710a (Cooperative Research
and Development Agreements). NIST
does not guarantee participation or any
other collaboration to any organization
submitting a Letter of Interest.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3710a.
Kevin Kimball,
Chief of Staff.
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to U.S. 101/
Chehalis River Bridge—Scour Repair
in Washington State
National Marine Fisheries
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ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental
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AGENCY:
In accordance with the
regulations implementing the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as
amended, notification is hereby given
that we have issued an incidental
harassment authorization (IHA) to
Washington State Department of
Transportation (WSDOT) to take small
numbers of marine mammals, by
harassment, incidental to U.S. 101/
Chehalis River Bridge—Scour Repair in
Washington State.
DATES: This authorization is valid from
July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shane Guan, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
Electronic copies of the application and
supporting documents, as well as the
issued IHA, may be obtained online at:
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/
SUMMARY:
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incidental/construction.htm. In case of
problems accessing these documents,
please call the contact listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the
MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) direct
the Secretary of Commerce to allow,
upon request, the incidental, but not
intentional, taking of small numbers of
marine mammals by U.S. citizens who
engage in a specified activity (other than
commercial fishing) within a specified
geographical region if certain findings
are made and either regulations are
issued or, if the taking is limited to
harassment, a notice of a proposed
authorization is provided to the public
for review.
An authorization for incidental
takings shall be granted if NMFS finds
that the taking will have a negligible
impact on the species or stock(s), will
not have an unmitigable adverse impact
on the availability of the species or
stock(s) for subsistence uses (where
relevant), and if the permissible
methods of taking and requirements
pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring
and reporting of such takings are set
forth.
NMFS has defined ‘‘negligible
impact’’ in 50 CFR 216.103 as an impact
resulting from the specified activity that
cannot be reasonably expected to, and is
not reasonably likely to, adversely affect
the species or stock through effects on
annual rates of recruitment or survival.
The MMPA states that the term ‘‘take’’
means to harass, hunt, capture, kill or
attempt to harass, hunt, capture, or kill
any marine mammal.
Except with respect to certain
activities not pertinent here, the MMPA
defines ‘‘harassment’’ as: Any act of
pursuit, torment, or annoyance which (i)
has the potential to injure a marine
mammal or marine mammal stock in the
wild (Level A harassment); or (ii) has
the potential to disturb a marine
mammal or marine mammal stock in the
wild by causing disruption of behavioral
patterns, including, but not limited to,
migration, breathing, nursing, breeding,
feeding, or sheltering (Level B
harassment).
National Environmental Policy Act
Issuance of an MMPA 101(a)(5)(D)
authorization requires compliance with
the National Environmental Policy Act.
NMFS determined the issuance of the
proposed IHA is consistent with
categories of activities identified in CE
B4 (issuance of incidental harassment
authorizations under section
101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the MMPA for
which no serious injury or mortality is
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Notice of Localization and Tracking System Testing Consortium
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Research Consortium.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an
agency of the United States Department of Commerce, is establishing the
Localization and Tracking System (LTS) Testing Consortium and invites
organizations to participate in this Consortium. Participants in this
Consortium will have the opportunity to test their LTS leveraging a
unique capability on the NIST Gaithersburg campus. The goals of the LTS
Testing Consortium are to demonstrate and further develop standardized
localization and tracking system testing procedures, and to assess
current state of the art. The LTS Testing Consortium will not evaluate
whether any individual system is commercially feasible. Participants in
the Consortium will be required to sign a Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement (CRADA).
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DATES: Letters of interest for participation in this LTS Testing
Consortium will be accepted until December 15, 2017. LTS testing is
expected to occur in April or May 2018, with a pre-event workshop in
February, however dates are subject to change.
ADDRESSES: Letters of interest and requests for additional information
can be directed to the NIST LTS Testing Consortium Manager, Nader
Moayeri, of the Advanced Network Technologies Division of NIST's
Information Technology Laboratory. Nader Moayeri's contact information
are NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8920, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8920,
USA, email: [email protected], and telephone: +1 301-975-3767.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information regarding the
terms and conditions of NIST's CRADA, please contact Jeffrey DiVietro,
CRADA and License Officer, NIST's Technology Partnerships Office, by
mail to 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 2200, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-
2200, by email to [email protected], or by telephone at +1 301-
975-8779.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Consortium Objectives: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31
\1\ has developed the international standard, ISO/IEC 18305, ``Test and
evaluation of localization and tracking systems'' that addresses test
methods with performance metrics and considers environmental factors
and usage scenarios expected in the field. NIST's objectives under this
LTS Testing Consortium are to plan and conduct Test and Evaluation
(T&E) activities based on ISO/IEC 18305. Goals of the T&E activities
include:
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\1\ International Organization of Standardization/International
Electrotechnical Commission/Joint Technical Committee 1/Subcommittee
31.
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1. Assessment of ISO/IEC 18305 to identify improvements that can be
incorporated into the next version of the standard; and
2. Assessment of LTS technologies using the standardized test
methods of ISO/IEC 18305 for the dual purposes of comparing
technologies to identify strengths and weaknesses of various
technological approaches and solutions, and to make it possible for
Consortium Members to use that information as a basis for further
developing their LTS. The results from the LTS Testing Consortium will
allow the validation of ISO/IEC 18305. The results will also allow
setting minimum performance requirements for various applications of
LTS technology and enable comparisons based on common test methods.
Results from this research are expected to improve the performance of
LTS technologies.
Background Information: Indoor localization is the capability to
determine/estimate the location of an entity to be localized or tracked
(ELT), such as a person, a robot, or some other object equipped with an
appropriate electronic device \2\ in buildings and subterranean
structures such as tunnels, caves, and underground mines. Tracking is
the capability to estimate the location of such ELT on an ongoing basis
and making the location information available to a tracking authority.
Localization and tracking, whether indoors or outdoors, has
applications in a wide range of domains including public safety,
manufacturing, construction, health care, entertainment, social
networking, building automation, and defense.
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\2\ It is also possible to have such capability using cameras
installed in the environment. In that case, there is no need for the
person, robot, or other object to be equipped with an electronic
device. However, such imaging-based techniques are beyond the scope
of the LTS Testing Consortium.
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Testing a LTS is complicated for several reasons:
There are many categories of LTS. Some rely on presence of
electronic infrastructure in the environment (building/tunnel/cave/
underground mine) to facilitate localization and tracking. Some systems
require site-specific training and calibration before they can be used.
Some systems need to have access to the floor plans of the building or
need to know the global coordinates of its boundaries to operate.
Therefore, one must be careful when comparing the performance of
various systems to ensure the comparisons are fair.
A LTS often has RF components. RF propagation can vary
considerably from one building to another depending on the construction
material used in the building, its floor plans, and objects present in
the building. Therefore, the LTS must be tested in a variety of
buildings, including a high rise, because a LTS typically has more
difficulty in estimating the floor where the ELT is located than in
estimating its horizontal location.
Given that the inertial sensors present in ubiquitous
smartphones and other devices used for localization suffer from
``drift'' that worsens over time, it is important to test the LTS using
long test scenarios, complex paths, different modes of mobility (e.g.,
walking, running, sidestepping, walking backwards, and crawling) and
speeds of movement. Therefore, the use of large buildings is a
prerequisite for a well-designed testing procedure.
Considering the complexities of indoor localization testing above,
vendors may not have the opportunity to test their LTS in a thorough
and comprehensive manner. Therefore, potential users may be unable to
determine whether a given LTS meets their needs. These issues
demonstrate the need for standardized testing procedures that can be
used to test and compare localization and tracking systems.
Test and Evaluation (T&E) Activities: NIST intends to hold a pre-
event workshop for participants of the Consortium to prepare for the
T&E activities. NIST anticipates the test event will take place over a
period of two weeks (ten business days) about two months after the
workshop. Each LTS will be tested over the course of 3-5 days during
one of the two weeks. During the two-week T&E event, each LTS will be
tested under NIST supervision by the participating company staff
members according to the procedures of ISO/IEC 18305. Lessons learned
from testing will be used to make modifications to the testing
procedures and corresponding future revisions in ISO/IEC 18305. Going
forward, NIST intends to use the same set of buildings so that future
testing will indicate the industry's improvements in performance of
indoor localization and tracking systems. Participation in this LTS
Testing Consortium does not guarantee participation in future testing
activities.
Methodology: To the extent possible, NIST has chosen structures on
its Gaithersburg, MD campus according to the guidelines specified in
ISO/IEC 18305. NIST has instrumented the structures with one-inch
diameter, circular floor markers. Locations of the floor markers have
been surveyed by a professional surveying company using precision laser
surveying equipment. In addition, the locations of ~200 Wi-Fi Access
Points (APs) in these buildings have been surveyed and the Wi-Fi AP
location information will be made available to Consortium Members
solely for use in the Consortium and by each Consortium Member's LTS
that will be tested at the T&E event. Multiple tracks, each consisting
of a set of floor markers, will be used to test each LTS. By comparing
the ground truth 3D coordinates of each floor marker with the estimate
of the 3D location provided by the LTS under test, the estimation error
can be computed and statistical analysis on the error done using the
performance metrics specified in ISO/IEC 18305.
Application Process: Interested parties should contact NIST using
the
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information provided in the ADDRESSES section. NIST will then provide
each interested party with a letter of interest template, which the
party must complete and submit to NIST. Each party's letter of interest
must include the following information:
1. Whether the LTS to be tested is commercially available now or at
an advanced productization stages so that it would be commercially
available by the end of 2018.
2. Market the indoor LTS is targeting.
3. Given that large buildings will be used for testing, whether the
number of units available to install in these buildings is sufficient
for the system to go through a suite of tests, one building at a time.
(As a point of information, the largest building to be used for testing
covers 100,000 square feet of space.)
4. The willingness and ability to send an adequate number of staff
members to install and uninstall the indoor LTS in test buildings and
operate the equipment to administer the tests under NIST supervision
for a period of about 3 days. If for any reason a LTS runs into
technical problems and cannot complete the tests in each building in
the allotted time slot, NIST has designated the last two days of the
week as ``make-up days'', where tests that were not completed in their
allotted time slots can be redone. NIST will not be responsible for
shipping equipment to NIST and back to your company.
5. Willingness to provide all data form T&E activities to the NIST
Consortium Manager for purposes of this project.
6. A statement regarding whether the LTS requires deployment of
equipment inside/outside a building in order to be tested; please
specify the types of equipment that need to be deployed and how many
per every 10,000 square feet of space.
7. If the LTS uses RF technology, please specify the frequency
band(s) and power levels the LTS uses.
8. Whether the installation, uninstallation, or operation of the
LTS is likely to cause damage of any type to the buildings or
furnishing during testing.
Letters of interest may be submitted to the LTS Testing Consortium
Manager electronically using the email address provided in the
ADDRESSES section. Letters of interest must include the name of the
organization and the name and contact information for an official
representing the organization. Letters of interest must not include any
confidential information. NIST will not treat any information provided
in the letters of interest as confidential or proprietary. NIST will
review the letters of interest from each organization received prior to
the closing date provided in the DATES section. Eligibility will be
determined based on the information provided by the organization in
response to the above request for specific information. NIST will
notify an applicant in writing of its eligibility to participate in the
LTS Testing Consortium. To participate, the eligible applicant will be
required to sign a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA) with NIST. Each participant's CRADA will have identical terms
and conditions that are consistent with the requirements of Title 15,
United States Code, Chapter 63, Section 3710a (Cooperative Research and
Development Agreements). NIST does not guarantee participation or any
other collaboration to any organization submitting a Letter of
Interest.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3710a.
Kevin Kimball,
Chief of Staff.
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