scholarly journals Indoor Positioning System Based on Standardizing Waveform Tendency

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Li ◽  
Ge Yu

Estimating the indoor position of users in commercial buildings remains a significant challenge to date. Although the WiFi-based indoor localization has been widely explored in many works by employing received signal strength (RSS) patterns as the features, they usually lead to inaccurate results as the RSS could be easily affected by the indoor environmental dynamics. Besides, existing methods are computationally intensive, which have a high time consumption that makes them unsuitable for real-life applications. In order to deal with those issues, we propose to use standardizing waveform tendency (SWT) of RSS for indoor positioning. We show that the proposed SWT is robust to the noise generated by the dynamic environment. We further develop a novel smartphone indoor positioning system by integrating SWT and kernel extreme learning machine (KELM) algorithm. Extensive real-world positioning experiments are conducted to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed model in terms of both positioning accuracy and robustness to environmental changes when comparing with state-of-the-art baselines.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haixia Wang ◽  
Junliang Li ◽  
Wei Cui ◽  
Xiao Lu ◽  
Zhiguo Zhang ◽  
...  

Mobile Robot Indoor Positioning System has wide application in the industry and home automation field. Unfortunately, existing mobile robot indoor positioning methods often suffer from poor positioning accuracy, system instability, and need for extra installation efforts. In this paper, we propose a novel positioning system which applies the centralized positioning method into the mobile robot, in which real-time positioning is achieved via interactions between ARM and computer. We apply the Kernel extreme learning machine (K-ELM) algorithm as our positioning algorithm after comparing four different algorithms in simulation experiments. Real-world indoor localization experiments are conducted, and the results demonstrate that the proposed system can not only improve positioning accuracy but also greatly reduce the installation efforts since our system solely relies on Wi-Fi devices.


Building a precise low cost indoor positioning and navigation wireless system is a challenging task. The accuracy and cost should be taken together into account. Especially, when we need a system to be built in a harsh environment. In recent years, several researches have been implemented to build different indoor positioning system (IPS) types for human movement using wireless commercial sensors. The aim of this paper is to prove that it is not always the case that having a larger number of anchor nodes will increase the accuracy. Two and three anchor nodes of ultra-wide band with or without the commercial devices (DW 1000) could be implemented in this work to find the Localization of objects in different indoor positioning system, for which the results showed that sometimes three anchor nodes are better than two and vice versa. It depends on how to install the anchor nodes in an appropriate scenario that may allow utilizing a smaller number of anchors while maintaining the required accuracy and cost.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (17) ◽  
pp. 3657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał R. Nowicki ◽  
Piotr Skrzypczyński

WiFi-based fingerprinting is promising for practical indoor localization with smartphones because this technique provides absolute estimates of the current position, while the WiFi infrastructure is ubiquitous in the majority of indoor environments. However, the application of WiFi fingerprinting for positioning requires pre-surveyed signal maps and is getting more restricted in the recent generation of smartphones due to changes in security policies. Therefore, we sought new sources of information that can be fused into the existing indoor positioning framework, helping users to pinpoint their position, even with a relatively low-quality, sparse WiFi signal map. In this paper, we demonstrate that such information can be derived from the recognition of camera images. We present a way of transforming qualitative information of image similarity into quantitative constraints that are then fused into the graph-based optimization framework for positioning together with typical pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) and WiFi fingerprinting constraints. Performance of the improved indoor positioning system is evaluated on different user trajectories logged inside an office building at our University campus. The results demonstrate that introducing additional sensing modality into the positioning system makes it possible to increase accuracy and simultaneously reduce the dependence on the quality of the pre-surveyed WiFi map and the WiFi measurements at run-time.


Author(s):  
C. Basri ◽  
A. Elkhadimi

Abstract. The advancement of Internet of things (IoT) has revolutionized the field of telecommunication opening the door for interesting applications such as smart cities, resources management, logistics and transportation, wearables and connected healthcare. The emergence of IoT in multiple sectors has enabled the requirement for an accurate real time location information. Location-based services are actually, due to development of networks, sensors, wireless communications and machine learning algorithms, able to collect and transmit data in order to determine the target positions, and support the needs imposed by several applications and use cases. The performance of an indoor positioning system in IoT networks depends on the technical implementation, network architecture, the deployed technology, techniques and algorithms of positioning. This paper highlights the importance of indoor localization in internet of things applications, gives a comprehensive review of indoor positioning techniques and methods implemented in IoT networks, and provides a detailed analysis on recent advances in this field.


Author(s):  
J. Liu ◽  
C. Jiang ◽  
Z. Shi

Sufficient signal nodes are mostly required to implement indoor localization in mainstream research. Magnetic field take advantage of high precision, stable and reliability, and the reception of magnetic field signals is reliable and uncomplicated, it could be realized by geomagnetic sensor on smartphone, without external device. After the study of indoor positioning technologies, choose the geomagnetic field data as fingerprints to design an indoor localization system based on smartphone. A localization algorithm that appropriate geomagnetic matching is designed, and present filtering algorithm and algorithm for coordinate conversion. With the implement of plot geomagnetic fingerprints, the indoor positioning of smartphone without depending on external devices can be achieved. Finally, an indoor positioning system which is based on Android platform is successfully designed, through the experiments, proved the capability and effectiveness of indoor localization algorithm.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 1401
Author(s):  
Haq Nawaz ◽  
Ahsen Tahir ◽  
Nauman Ahmed ◽  
Ubaid U. Fayyaz ◽  
Tayyeb Mahmood ◽  
...  

Global navigation satellite systems have been used for reliable location-based services in outdoor environments. However, satellite-based systems are not suitable for indoor positioning due to low signal power inside buildings and low accuracy of 5 m. Future smart homes demand low-cost, high-accuracy and low-power indoor positioning systems that can provide accuracy of less than 5 m and enable battery operation for mobility and long-term use. We propose and implement an intelligent, highly accurate and low-power indoor positioning system for smart homes leveraging Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) model using information-theoretic gain based on reduction in differential entropy. The system is based on Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and uses ultra-low-power radio transceivers working at 434 MHz. The system has been deployed and tested using indoor measurements for two-dimensional (2D) positioning. In addition, the proposed system provides dual functionality with the same wireless links used for receiving telemetry data, with configurable data rates of up to 600 Kbauds. The implemented system integrates the time difference pulses obtained from the differential circuitry to determine the radio frequency (RF) transmitter node positions. The implemented system provides a high positioning accuracy of 0.68 m and 1.08 m for outdoor and indoor localization, respectively, when using GPR machine learning models, and provides telemetry data reception of 250 Kbauds. The system enables low-power battery operation with consumption of <200 mW power with ultra-low-power CC1101 radio transceivers and additional circuits with a differential amplifier. The proposed system provides low-cost, low-power and high-accuracy indoor localization and is an essential element of public well-being in future smart homes.


Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 146 ◽  
Author(s):  
AL-Khaleefa ◽  
Ahmad ◽  
Isa ◽  
AL-Saffar ◽  
Esa ◽  
...  

Indoor localization is a dynamic and exciting research area. WiFi has exhibited a tremendous capability for internal localization since it is extensively used and easily accessible. Facilitating the use of WiFi for this purpose requires fingerprint formation and the implementation of a learning algorithm with the aim of using the fingerprint to determine locations. The most difficult aspect of techniques based on fingerprints is the effect of dynamic environmental changes on fingerprint authentication. With the aim of dealing with this problem, many experts have adopted transfer-learning methods, even though in WiFi indoor localization the dynamic quality of the change in the fingerprint has some cyclic factors that necessitate the use of previous knowledge in various situations. Thus, this paper presents the maximum feature adaptive online sequential extreme learning machine (MFA-OSELM) technique, which uses previous knowledge to handle the cyclic dynamic factors that are brought about by the issue of mobility, which is present in internal environments. This research extends the earlier study of the feature adaptive online sequential extreme learning machine (FA-OSELM). The results of this research demonstrate that MFA-OSELM is superior to FA-OSELM given its capacity to preserve previous data when a person goes back to locations that he/she had visited earlier. Also, there is always a positive accuracy change when using MFA-OSELM, with the best change achieved being 27% (ranging from eight to 27% and six to 18% for the TampereU and UJIIndoorLoc datasets, respectively), which proves the efficiency of MFA-OSELM in restoring previous knowledge.


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