Download or read book Smartphone based Indoor Positioning Using Wi Fi Inertial Sensors and Bluetooth written by Viet-Cuong Ta and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the popularity of smartphones and tablets in daily life, the task of finding user's position through their phone gains much attention from both the research and industry communities. Technologies integrated in smartphones such as GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and camera are all capable for building a positioning system. Among those technologies, GPS has approaches have become a standard and achieved much success for the outdoor environment. Meanwhile, Wi-Fi, inertial sensors and Bluetooth are more preferred for positioning task in indoor environment.For smartphone positioning, Wi-Fi fingerprinting based approaches are well established within the field. Generally speaking, the approaches attempt to learn the mapping function from Wi-Fi signal characteristics to the real world position. They usually require a good amount of data for finding a good mapping. When the available training data is limited, the fingerprinting-based approach has high errors and becomes less stable. In our works, we want to explore different approaches of Wi-Fi fingerprinting methods for dealing with a lacking in training data. Based on the performance of the individual approaches, several ensemble strategies are proposed to improve the overall positioning performance. All the proposed methods are tested against a published dataset, which is used as the competition data of the IPIN 2016 Conference with offsite track (track 3).Besides the positioning system based on Wi-Fi technology, the smartphone's inertial sensors are also useful for the tracking task. The three types of sensors, which are accelerate, gyroscope and magnetic, can be employed to create a Step-And-Heading (SHS) system. Several methods are tested in our approaches. The number of steps and user's moving distance are calculated from the accelerometer data. The user's heading is calculated from the three types of data with three methods, including rotation matrix, Complimentary Filter and Madgwick Filter. It is reasonable to combine SHS outputs with the outputs from Wi-Fi due to both technologies are present in the smartphone. Two combination approaches are tested. The first approach is to use directly the Wi-Fi outputs as pivot points for fixing the SHS tracking part. In the second approach, we rely on the Wi-Fi signal to build an observation model, which is then integrated into the particle filter approximation step. The combining paths have a significant improvement from the SHS tracking only and the Wi-Fi only. Although, SHS tracking with Wi-Fi fingerprinting improvement achieves promising results, it has a number of limitations such as requiring additional sensors calibration efforts and restriction on smartphone handling positions.In the context of multiple users, Bluetooth technology on the smartphone could provide the approximated distance between users. The relative distance is calculated from the Bluetooth inquiry process. It is then used to improve the output from Wi-Fi positioning models. We study two different combination methods. The first method aims to build an error function which is possible to model the noise in the Wi-Fi output and Bluetooth approximated distance for each specific time interval. It ignores the temporal relationship between successive Wi-Fi outputs. Position adjustments are then computed by minimizing the error function. The second method considers the temporal relationship and the movement constraint when the user moves around the area. The tracking step are carried out by using particle filter. The observation model of the particle filter are a combination between the Wi-Fi data and Bluetooth data. Both approaches are tested against real data, which include up to four different users moving in an office environment. While the first approach is only applicable in some specific scenarios, the second approach has a significant improvement from the position output based on Wi-Fi fingerprinting model only.
Download or read book Urban Informatics written by Wenzhong Shi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of ‘big’ data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.
Download or read book Wireless Indoor Localization written by Chenshu Wu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of wireless indoor localization for ubiquitous applications. The past decade has witnessed a flourishing of WiFi-based indoor localization, which has become one of the most popular localization solutions and has attracted considerable attention from both the academic and industrial communities. Specifically focusing on WiFi fingerprint based localization via crowdsourcing, the book follows a top-down approach and explores the three most important aspects of wireless indoor localization: deployment, maintenance, and service accuracy. After extensively reviewing the state-of-the-art literature, it highlights the latest advances in crowdsourcing-enabled WiFi localization. It elaborated the ideas, methods and systems for implementing the crowdsourcing approach for fingerprint-based localization. By tackling the problems such as: deployment costs of fingerprint database construction, maintenance overhead of fingerprint database updating, floor plan generation, and location errors, the book offers a valuable reference guide for technicians and practitioners in the field of location-based services. As the first of its kind, introducing readers to WiFi-based localization from a crowdsourcing perspective, it will greatly benefit and appeal to scientists and researchers in mobile and ubiquitous computing and related areas.
Download or read book Indoor Positioning and Navigation written by Simon Tomazič and published by Mdpi AG. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, rapid development in robotics, mobile, and communication technologies has encouraged many studies in the field of localization and navigation in indoor environments. An accurate localization system that can operate in an indoor environment has considerable practical value, because it can be built into autonomous mobile systems or a personal navigation system on a smartphone for guiding people through airports, shopping malls, museums and other public institutions, etc. Such a system would be particularly useful for blind people. Modern smartphones are equipped with numerous sensors (such as inertial sensors, cameras, and barometers) and communication modules (such as WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, LTE/5G, and UWB capabilities), which enable the implementation of various localization algorithms, namely, visual localization, inertial navigation system, and radio localization. For the mapping of indoor environments and localization of autonomous mobile sysems, LIDAR sensors are also frequently used in addition to smartphone sensors. Visual localization and inertial navigation systems are sensitive to external disturbances; therefore, sensor fusion approaches can be used for the implementation of robust localization algorithms. These have to be optimized in order to be computationally efficient, which is essential for realtime processing and low energy consumption on a smartphone or robot.
Download or read book Smartphone Based Indoor Map Construction written by Ruipeng Gao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on ubiquitous indoor localization services, specifically addressing the issue of floor plans. It combines computer vision algorithms and mobile techniques to reconstruct complete and accurate floor plans to provide better location-based services for both humans and vehicles via commodity smartphones in indoor environments (e.g., a multi-layer shopping mall with underground parking structures). After a comprehensive review of scene reconstruction methods, it offers accurate geometric information for each landmark from images and acoustics, and derives the spatial relationships of the landmarks and rough sketches of accessible areas with inertial and WiFi data to reduce computing overheads. It then presents the authors’ recent findings in detail, including the optimization and probabilistic formulations for more solid foundations and better robustness to combat errors, several new approaches to promote the current sporadic availability of indoor location-based services, and a holistic solution for floor plan reconstruction, indoor localization, tracking, and navigation. The novel approaches presented are designed for different types of indoor environments (e.g., shopping malls, office buildings and labs) and different users. A valuable resource for researchers and those in start-ups working in the field, it also provides supplementary material for students with mobile computing and networking backgrounds.
Download or read book Context Aware Wi Fi Infrastructure based Indoor Positioning Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large enterprises are often interested in tracking objects and people within buildings to improve resource allocation and occupant experience. Infrastructure-based indoor positioning systems (IIPS) can provide this service at low-cost by leveraging already deployed Wi-Fi infrastructure. Typically, IIPS perform localization and tracking of devices by measuring only Wi-Fi signals at wireless access points and do not rely on inertial sensor data at mobile devices (e.g., smartphones), which would require explicit user consent and sensing capabilities of the devices. The thesis of this dissertation is that embedding context-aware capabilities in the IIPS enhances its performance in tracking many devices simultaneously and accurately. Specifically, we develop motion detection and map matching to show the benefits of leveraging two critical contexts: device motion and floor map. Providing motion detection and map matching is non-trivial in the IIPS where we must rely only on data from the Wi-Fi infrastructure. This thesis makes two contributions. First, we develop feature-based and deep learning-based motion detection models that exploit temporal patterns in Wi-Fi measurements across different access points to classify device motion in real time. Second, we develop graph-based and image-based map matching models to exploit floor maps. In our evaluation, we show that the image-based approach can improve location accuracy with large simulated datasets, compared to the graph-based approach. Together, these contributions enable improvement of the IIPS in its ability to accurately and simultaneously track many devices over large buildings.
Download or read book Multiple Model based Indoor Localization Via Bluetooth Low Energy and Inertial Measurement Unit Sensors written by Mohammadamin Atashi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ubiquitous presence of smart connected devices coupled with evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the field of Internet of Things (IoT) have resulted in emergence of innovative ambience awareness concepts such as smart homes and smart cities. In particular, IoT-based indoor localization has gained significant popularity, given the expected widespread implementation of 5G network, to satisfy the ever increasing requirements of Location-based Services (LBS) and Proximity Based Services (PBS). LBSs and PBSs have found several applications under different circumstances such as localization profiling for human resource management; navigation assistant applications in smart buildings/hospitals, and; proximity based advertisement and marketing. The focus of this thesis is, therefore, on design and implementation of efficient and accurate indoor localization processing and learning techniques. In particular, the thesis focuses on the following three positioning frameworks: (i) \textit{Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based Indoor Localization}, which uses the pathloss model to estimate the user's location; (ii) \textit{Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based Indoor Positioning}, where smart phone's $3$ axis inertial sensors are utilized to iteratively estimate the headings and steps of the target, and; (iii) \textit{Pattern Recognition-based Indoor Localization}, which uses Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to estimate the performed actions and find the user's location. With regards to Item (i), the thesis evaluates effects of the orientation of target's phone, Line of Sight (LOS) / Non Line of Sight (NLOS) signal propagation, and presence of obstacles in the environment on the BLE-based distance estimates. Additionally, a fusion framework, combining Particle Filtering with K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) algorithm, is proposed and evaluated based on real datasets collected through an implemented LBS platform. With regards to Item (ii), an orientation detection and multiple-modeling framework is proposed to refine Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) fluctuations by compensating negative orientation effects. The proposed data-driven and orientation-free modeling framework provides improved localization results. With regards to Item (iii), the focus is on classifying actions performed by a user using Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) architectures. To address issues related to cumulative error of Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) solutions, three Online Dynamic Window (ODW) assisted LSTM positioning frameworks are proposed. The first model, uses a Natural Language Processing (NLP)-inspired Dynamic Window (DW) approach, which significantly reduces the computation time required for Real Time Localization Systems (RTLS). The second framework is developed based on a Signal Processing Dynamic Window (SP-DW) approach to further reduce the required processing time of the two stage LSTM based indoor localization. The third model, referred to as the SP-NLP, combines the first two models to further improve the overall achieved accuracy.
Download or read book Indoor Positioning written by Nel Samama and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides technical and scientific descriptions of potential approaches used to achieve indoor positioning, ranging from sensor networks to more advanced radio-based systems This book presents a large technical overview of various approaches to achieve indoor positioning. These approaches cover those based on sensors, cameras, satellites, and other radio-based methods. The book also discusses the simplification of certain implementations, describing ways for the reader to design solutions that respect specifications and follow established techniques. Descriptions of the main techniques used for positioning, including angle measurement, distance measurements, Doppler measurements, and inertial measurements are also given. Indoor Positioning: Technologies and Performance starts with overviews of the first age of navigation, the link between time and space, the radio age, the first terrestrial positioning systems, and the era of artificial satellites. It then introduces readers to the subject of indoor positioning, as well as positioning techniques and their associated difficulties. Proximity technologies like bar codes, image recognition, Near Field Communication (NFC), and QR codes are covered—as are room restricted and building range technologies. The book examines wide area indoor positioning as well as world wide indoor technologies like High-Sensitivity and Assisted GNSS, and covers maps and mapping. It closes with the author's vision of the future in which the practice of indoor positioning is perfected across all technologies. This text: Explores aspects of indoor positioning from both theoretical and practical points of view Describes advantages and drawbacks of various approaches to positioning Provides examples of design solutions that respect specifications of tested techniques Covers infra-red sensors, lasers, Lidar, RFID, UWB, Bluetooth, Image SLAM, LiFi, WiFi, indoor GNSS, and more Indoor Positioning is an ideal guide for technical engineers, industrial and application developers, and students studying wireless communications and signal processing.
Download or read book Smartphone Based 3D Indoor Localization and Navigation written by Frank Ebner and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last century, navigation systems have become ubiquitous and guide drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians towards their desired destinations. While operating worldwide, they rely on line-of-sight conditions towards satellites and are thus limited to outdoor areas. However, finding a gate within an airport, a ward within a hospital, or a university's auditorium also represent navigation problems. To provide navigation within such indoor environments, new approaches are required. This thesis examines pedestrian 3D indoor localization and navigation using commodity smartphones: A desirable target platform, always at hand and equipped with a multitude of sensors. The IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer) and barometer allow for pedestrian dead reckoning, that is, estimating relative location changes. Absolute whereabouts can be determined via Wi-Fi, an infrastructure present within most public buildings, or by using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons as inexpensive supplement. The building's 3D floorplan not only enables navigation, but also increases accuracy by preventing impossible movements, and serves as a visual reference for the pedestrian. All aforementioned information is fused by recursive density estimation based on a particle filter. The conducted experiments cover both, theoretical backgrounds and real-world use-cases. All discussed approaches utilize the infrastructure found within most public buildings, are easy to set up, and maintain. Overall, this thesis results in an indoor localization and navigation system that can be easily deployed, without requiring any special hardware components.
Download or read book Recent Advances in Indoor Localization Systems and Technologies written by Gyula Simon and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enormous technical progress seen in the past few years, the maturity of indoor localization technologies has not yet reached the level of GNSS solutions. The 23 selected papers in this book present the recent advances and new developments in indoor localization systems and technologies, propose novel or improved methods with increased performance, provide insight into various aspects of quality control, and also introduce some unorthodox positioning methods.
Download or read book WLAN Fingerprinting Based Indoor Positioning in the Presence of Censored and Dropped Data written by Manh Kha Hoang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing a reliable indoor positioning and navigation system is of a particular interest for a variety of applications such as location-based services, person or object localization and tracking systems, etc.. Many methods have been proposed to improve the positioning accuracy in an indoor environment. Amongst them, approaches employing Wireless LAN (WLAN) and inertial sensor information seem to be the most promising because of the wide deployment of WLAN in many public areas, and because inertial sensors are now available on most modern smartphones. WLAN fingerprinting based positioning suffers from censored and dropped data, which has not yet received much attention in the literature. Censoring refers to the fact that sensors are unable to measure Received Signal Strength Index (RSSI) values below some threshold. Dropping means that occasionally RSSI measurements of access points are not available, although their value is clearly above the censoring threshold. This thesis, therefore, concentrates on parameter estimation of the assumed Gaussian distribution of WLAN data in the presence of censored and dropped data. In addition, RSSI statistics gathered from smartphones of different vendors are not identical because of different hardware and software employed. Moreover, smartphones from the same vendor and even the same model are not able to return the same signal strength when they measure the data at the same conditions. As a result, another goal of this study is to address the problem of the differences of the sensor sensitivities of smartphones when censored and dropped data are present in the measurement data. To further improve the positioning accuracy, methods for combining the fingerprinting based positioning with dead reckoning techniques are explored. Within this work, this is achieved by a hidden Markov model (HMM), where the HMM states are the positions where fingerprints have been taken... ; eng
Download or read book Low power Wearable Healthcare Sensors written by R. Simon Sherratt and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in technology have produced a range of on-body sensors and smartwatches that can be used to monitor a wearer’s health with the objective to keep the user healthy. However, the real potential of such devices not only lies in monitoring but also in interactive communication with expert-system-based cloud services to offer personalized and real-time healthcare advice that will enable the user to manage their health and, over time, to reduce expensive hospital admissions. To meet this goal, the research challenges for the next generation of wearable healthcare devices include the need to offer a wide range of sensing, computing, communication, and human–computer interaction methods, all within a tiny device with limited resources and electrical power. This Special Issue presents a collection of six papers on a wide range of research developments that highlight the specific challenges in creating the next generation of low-power wearable healthcare sensors.
Download or read book Design and Development of Indoor Positioning System written by Muhammad Irshan Khan and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indoor positioning and navigation in smart phones has become possible with the availability of good processors, sensors and connectivity in smart phone. The development of a system that utilizes these technologies for indoor positioning has been discussed. This system integrates wifi positioning, inertial sensors' data and buildings' map information for indoor navigation. Micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) based gyroscopes and accelerometers, have been used for providing pedestrian dead reckoning; and a Bayesian filter based on Monte Carlo simulation (particle filter) has been designed for integration of wifi positioning, pedestrian dead reckoning and buildings' map information for indoor navigation. This filter provides the state of the user estimated as a weighted mean of the approximated distribution obtained from particle filter. The positioning system has been built with XSENS MTW IMU, Acer ICONIA tablet running MATLAB. The developed system provides indoor positioning with mean square error within 1 meter, the error value of less than 2.5 m 95% of the time with the consistency of 96.86%.
Download or read book Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering written by Ernesto Damiani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutesselected, revised and extended papers of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2019, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May 2019. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers included in this book contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on novel approaches to software engineering for the development and maintenance of systems and applications, specically with relation to: model-driven software engineering, requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, service-oriented software engineering, business process management and engineering, knowledge management and engineering, reverse software engineering, software process improvement, software change and configuration management, software metrics, software patterns and refactoring, application integration, software architecture, cloud computing, and formal methods.
Download or read book Indoor Positioning Technologies written by Rainer Mautz and published by Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG. This book was released on 2012 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of automation the ability to navigate persons and devices in indoor environments has become increasingly important for a rising number of applications. However, we are still far away from achieving cheap provision of global indoor positioning with an accuracy of 1 meter or better. With the emergence of global satellite positioning systems, the performance of outdoor positioning has become excellent, but many mass market applications require seamless positioning capabilities in all environments. Therefore indoor positioning has become a focus of research and development during the past decade. This book categorizes all sighted indoor positioning approaches into 13 distinct technologies and describes the measuring principles of each. Individual approaches are characterized and key performance parameters are quantified.
Download or read book Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems Computing Networking and Services written by Arkady Zaslavsky and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ubiquitous Positioning and Mobile Location Based Services in Smart Phones written by Chen, Ruizhi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many smart phone users reap the benefits of location-based services. While tracking users positions using their smart phone is an issue of concern for some, others who use Foursquare or rely on their Android GPS view location-based services as a necessity. Ubiquitous Positioning and Mobile Location-Based Services in Smart Phones explores new research in smart phones with an emphasis on positioning solutions in smart phones, smart phone-based navigation applications, mobile geographical information systems, and related standards.
