1. Introduction

Our environment is nowadays filled with technology. Mobile phones, smart watches, game interfaces, sensors, camera’s, rfid, etc. This means all this technology can somehow relate to the physical realm. However there are no standards for mapping a physical realm to a digital/virtual realm. One can create a mapping like one needs. However when the amount of devices grows this can be a challenging task. You hope you chose a sensible and flexible mapping set for every device. Apart from making it work it would be more beneficial if the mapping is ‘making sense’. If coordinate systems would not map 1 on 1 then for every change one would need to think about the translation from one coordinate system into the other. This is unintuitive, error prone and making adoption of a clear mental model more difficult.
In this document we outline the results of our research into homogenizing different coordinates systems from the physical and digital realm. We propose a mapping system to homogenize the realm’s coordinate systems. The proposed mapping is tested for use in the ZOCP protocol¹.

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