scholarly journals Practical Fingerprinting Localization for Indoor Positioning System by Using Beacons

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santosh Subedi ◽  
Jae-Young Pyun
Keyword(s):  
Estimation Error ◽  
Indoor Positioning ◽  
Location Estimation ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Ultra Wideband ◽  
Positioning System ◽  
Localization Method ◽  
Weighted Centroid Localization ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Indoor Positioning System

Recent developments in the fields of smartphones and wireless communication technologies such as beacons, Wi-Fi, and ultra-wideband have made it possible to realize indoor positioning system (IPS) with a few meters of accuracy. In this paper, an improvement over traditional fingerprinting localization is proposed by combining it with weighted centroid localization (WCL). The proposed localization method reduces the total number of fingerprint reference points over the localization space, thus minimizing both the time required for reading radio frequency signals and the number of reference points needed during the fingerprinting learning process, which eventually makes the process less time-consuming. The proposed positioning has two major steps of operation. In the first step, we have realized fingerprinting that utilizes lightly populated reference points (RPs) and WCL individually. Using the location estimated at the first step, WCL is run again for the final location estimation. The proposed localization technique reduces the number of required fingerprint RPs by more than 40% compared to normal fingerprinting localization method with a similar localization estimation error.

scholarly journals A Novel Indoor Positioning System Using Kernel Local Discriminant Analysis in Internet-of-Things

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajida Imran ◽  
Young-Bae Ko
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Indoor Positioning ◽  
Location Estimation ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Positioning System ◽  
Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Indoor Positioning System

WLAN based localization is a key technique of location-based services (LBS) indoors. However, the indoor environment is complex; received signal strength (RSS) is highly uncertain, multimodal, and nonlinear. The traditional location estimation methods fail to provide fair estimation accuracy under the said environment. We proposed a novel indoor positioning system that considers the nonlinear discriminative feature extraction of RSS using kernel local Fisher discriminant analysis (KLFDA). KLFDA extracts location features in a well-preserved kernelized space. In the new kernel featured space, nonlinear RSS features are characterized effectively. Along with handling of nonlinearity, KLFDA also copes well with the multimodality in the RSS data. By performing KLFDA, the discriminating information contained in RSS is reorganized and maximally extracted. Prior to feature extraction, we performed outlier detection on RSS data to remove any anomalies present in the data. Experimental results show that the proposed approach obtains higher positioning accuracy by extracting maximal discriminate location features and discarding outlying information present in the RSS data.

scholarly journals Platform and Algorithm Development for a RFID-Based Indoor Positioning System

2014 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 279-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Zou ◽  
Lihua Xie ◽  
Qing-Shan Jia ◽  
Hengtao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Indoor Positioning ◽  
Location Estimation ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Rfid Tags ◽  
Positioning System ◽  
Localization Algorithm ◽  
Localization Accuracy ◽  
Reference Tags ◽  
Indoor Positioning System

In recent years, developing Indoor Positioning System (IPS) has become an attractive research topic due to the increasing demands on Location-Based Service (LBS) in indoor environment. Several advantages of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology, such as anti-interference, small, light and portable size of RFID tags, and its unique identification of different objects, make it superior to other wireless communication technologies for indoor positioning. However, certain drawbacks of existing RFID-based IPSs, such as high cost of RFID readers and active tags, as well as heavy dependence on the density of reference tags to provide the LBS, largely limit the application of RFID-based IPS. In order to overcome these drawbacks, we develop a cost-efficient RFID-based IPS by using cheaper active RFID tags and sensors. Furthermore, we also proposed three localization algorithms: Weighted Path Loss (WPL), Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) and integrated WPL-ELM. WPL is a centralized model-based approach which does not require any reference tags and provides accurate location estimation of the target effectively. ELM is a machine learning fingerprinting-based localization algorithm which can provide higher localization accuracy than other existing fingerprinting-based approaches. The integrated WPL-ELM approach combines the fast estimation of WPL and the high localization accuracy of ELM. Based on the experimental results, this integrated approach provides a higher localization efficiency and accuracy than existing approaches, e.g., the LANDMARC approach and the support vector machine for regression (SVR) approach.

scholarly journals Localization Reliability Improvement Using Deep Gaussian Process Regression Model

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Teng ◽  
Wenyuan Tao ◽  
Chung-Ming Own
Keyword(s):  
Gaussian Process ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Gaussian Process Regression ◽  
Computation Time ◽  
Indoor Positioning ◽  
Location Estimation ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Nonparametric Model ◽  
Positioning System ◽  
Positioning Accuracy

With the widespread use of the Global Positioning System, indoor positioning technology has attracted increasing attention. Many systems with distinct deployment costs and positioning accuracies have been developed over the past decade for indoor positioning. The method that is based on received signal strength (RSS) is the most widely used. However, manually measuring RSS signal values to build a fingerprint database is costly and time-consuming, and it is impractical in a dynamic environment with a large positioning area. In this study, we propose an indoor positioning system that is based on the deep Gaussian process regression (DGPR) model. This model is a nonparametric model and it only needs to measure part of the reference points, thus reducing the time and cost required for data collection. The model converts the RSS values into four types of characterizing values as input data and then predicts the position coordinates using DGPR. Finally, after reinforcement learning, the position coordinates are optimized. The authors conducted several experiments on a simulated environment by MATLAB and physical environments at Tianjin University. The experiments examined different environments, different kernels, and positioning accuracy. The results showed that the proposed method could not only retain the positioning accuracy, but also save the computation time that is required for location estimation.

scholarly journals A Clustering-Based Approach for Improving the Accuracy of UWB Sensor-Based Indoor Positioning System

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taner Arsan ◽  
Mohammed Muwafaq Noori Hameez
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Indoor Positioning ◽  
Optimal Number ◽  
Ultra Wideband ◽  
Positioning System ◽  
Indoor Location ◽  
Test Points ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Indoor Positioning System

There are several methods which can be used to locate an object or people in an indoor location. Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a specifically promising indoor positioning technology because of its high accuracy, resistance to interference, and better penetration. This study aims to improve the accuracy of the UWB sensor-based indoor positioning system. To achieve that, the proposed system is trained by using the K-means algorithm with an additional average silhouette method. This helps us to define the optimal number of clusters to be used by the K-means algorithm based on the value of the silhouette coefficient. Fuzzy c-means and mean shift algorithms are added for comparison purposes. This paper also introduces the impact of the Kalman filter while using the measured UWB test points as an input for the Kalman filter in order to obtain a better estimation of the position. As a result, the average localization error is reduced by 43.26% (from 16.3442 cm to 9.2745 cm) when combining the K-means algorithm with the Kalman filter in which the Kalman-filtered UWB-measured test points are used as an input for the proposed system.

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