Social-Loc: Improving indoor localization with social sensing

  • Junghyun Jun
  • , Yu Gu
  • , Long Cheng
  • , Banghui Lu
  • , Jun Sun
  • , Ting Zhu
  • , Jianwei Niu

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Abstract

Location-based services, such as targeted advertisement, geosocial networking and emergency services, are becoming increasingly popular for mobile applications. While GPS provides accurate outdoor locations, accurate indoor localization schemes still require either additional infrastructure support (e.g., ranging devices) or extensive training before system deployment (e.g., WiFi signal fingerprinting). In order to help existing localization systems to overcome their limitations or to further improve their accuracy, we propose Social-Loc, a middleware that takes the potential locations for individual users, which is estimated by any underlying indoor localization system as input and exploits both social encounter and non-encounter events to cooperatively calibrate the estimation errors. We have fully implemented Social-Loc on the Android platform and demonstrated its performance on two underlying indoor localization systems: Dead-reckoning and WiFi fingerprint. Experiment results show that Social-Loc improves user's localization accuracy of WiFi fingerprint and dead-reckoning by at least 22% and 37%, respectively. Large-scale simulation results indicate Social-Loc is scalable, provides good accuracy for a long duration of time, and is robust against measurement errors.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSenSys 2013 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Print)9781450320276
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2013 - Rome, Italy
Duration: 11 Nov 201315 Nov 2013

Publication series

NameSenSys 2013 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Conference

Conference11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2013
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period11/11/1315/11/13

Keywords

  • Indoor Localization
  • Middleware
  • Social Interaction

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