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A real-time indoor tracking system in smartphones

  • University of Bern
  • Federal University of Rio

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Abstract

The rapid growth area of ubiquitous applications and location-based services has made indoor localization an interesting topic for research. Some indoor localization solutions for smartphones exploit radio information and Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), which are embedded in most of the modern smartphones. In this work, we propose to fuse WiFi Receiving Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) readings, IMUs, and floor plan information in an enhanced particle filter to achieve high accuracy and stable performance in the tracking process. We provide an efficient double resampling method to mitigate errors caused by off-the-shelf IMUs and WiFi sensors embedded in commodity smartphones. The algorithms are designed in a terminal-based system, which consists of commercial smartphones and WiFi access points. We evaluate our system in two complex environments along moving paths. Experiment results show that our tracking method can achieve the average tracking error of 1.01 meters and 90% accuracy of 1.7 meters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMSWiM 2016 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages292-301
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450345026
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Nov 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event19th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2016 - Malta, Malta
Duration: 13 Nov 201617 Nov 2016

Publication series

NameMSWiM 2016 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Conference

Conference19th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2016
Country/TerritoryMalta
CityMalta
Period13/11/1617/11/16

Keywords

  • Inertial Measurement Units (IMU)
  • Particle Filter
  • Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI)
  • WiFi

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