scholarly journals Indoor Localization Using Bayesian Filter

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthik Muthineni ◽  
Attaphongse Taparugssanagorn

Ambient Intelligent (AmI) Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) provide intelligent services based on user and environment data obtained by sensors. Such networks are developed to give environmental monitoring and indoor localization services. In this work, Zigbee which is a wireless communication technology is used for localization based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) method. In practice, Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is adapted to filter RSSI values influenced by multi-path fading and noise. Log-Normal Shadowing Method (LNSM) together with the Trilateration method was implemented to locate the position of the unknown node or entity. In addition, Cramer Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) is derived for the position estimation, that can be used to evaluate the performance of the system in terms of localization accuracy. Along with indoor localization, the deployed WSN could also monitor environment parameters like temperature and humidity surrounding entity using Digital Humidity and Temperature (DHT11) sensor. Using Zigbee location coordinates of entity and environment parameters are transmitted to remote desktop where visualization of data is done using Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB).

2012 ◽  
Vol 241-244 ◽  
pp. 972-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Zhi Wen ◽  
Ting Ting Su ◽  
Li Fang Li

In order to improve the positioning accuracy and reduce the localization cost, a kind of PSO-based RFID indoor localization algorithm is proposed in this paper. The main idea of this algorithm contains the following two aspects. First, due to the influence of none line of sight and multipath transmission in indoor environment, we adopt Gaussian Smoothing Filter to process Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) values, which can reduce the impact of environmental factors on the position estimation effectively. Second, Particle of Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is introduced to obtain a better positioning result. By experimenting in different indoor environment, the results demonstrate that the proposed approach can not only improve the precision of indoor localization, but has a lower cost and better robustness when compared to VIRE approach.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1325
Author(s):  
Yunwei Zhang ◽  
Weigang Wang ◽  
Chendong Xu ◽  
Jie Qin ◽  
Shujuan Yu ◽  
...  

With the rise of location-based services and the rapidly growing requirements related to their applications, indoor localization based on channel state information–multiple-input multiple-output (CSI-MIMO) has become an important research topic. However, indoor localization based on CSI-MIMO has some disadvantages, including noise and high data dimensions. To overcome the above drawbacks, we proposed a novel method of indoor localization based on CSI-MIMO, named SICD. For SICD, a novel localization fingerprint was first designed which can reflect the time–frequency and space–frequency characteristics of CSI-MIMO under a single access point (AP). To reduce the redundancy in the data of CSI-MIMO amplitude, we developed a data dimensionality reduction algorithm. Moreover, by leveraging a log-normal distribution, we calculated the conditional probability of the naive Bayes classifier, which was used to predict the moving object’s location. Compared with other state-of-the-art methods, the results of the experiment confirm that the SICD effectively improves localization accuracy.


Author(s):  
Dwi Joko Suroso ◽  
Farid Yuli Martin Adiyatma ◽  
Ahmad Eko Kurniawan ◽  
Panarat Cherntanomwong

The classical rang-based technique for position estimation is still reliably used for indoor localization. Trilateration and multilateration, which include three or more references to locate the indoor object, are two common examples. These techniques use at least three intersection-locations of the references' distance and conclude that the intersection is the object's position. However, some challenges have appeared when using a simple power-to-distance parameter, i.e., received signal strength indicator (RSSI). RSSI is known for its fluctuated values when used as the localization parameter. The improvement of classical range-based has been proposed, namely min-max and iRingLA algorithms. These algorithms or methods use the approximation in a bounding-box and rings for min-max and iRingLA, respectively. This paper discusses the comparison performance of min-max and iRingLA with multilateration as the classical method. We found that min-max gives the best performance, and in some positions, iRingLA gives the best accuracy error. Hence, the approximation method can be promising for indoor localization, especially when using a simple and straightforward RSSI parameter.


2012 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 401-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Sheng Zhang ◽  
Ya Ming Xu ◽  
Wu Yang ◽  
Qian Zhou

How to enhance the accuracy of sensor node self-localization for limited energy resource networks is an important problem in the study of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Concerning the advantages and disadvantages of some main algorithms for senor node self-localization, an easy and simple algorithm is proposed to locate the unknown node itself. The algorithm is to improve weight centroid localization (WCL), by the way of determining weight through using the proportion of differential received signal strength indicator (RSSI) that are derived from unknown node and criterion nodes. In contrast to WCL, the algorithm has the strengths of less computation and better determination of weight, and the determination of weight shows more distinguished distinction in the effect on the localization of unknown node, which is caused by various beacon nodes. Simulations demonstrate that the algorithm has a higher localization accuracy than WCL


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieping Zhang ◽  
Fei Peng ◽  
Peng Cao ◽  
Wenjun Ji

Aiming at the low accuracy of DV-Hop localization algorithm in three-dimensional localization of wireless sensor network, a DV-Hop localization algorithm optimized by adaptive cuckoo search algorithm was proposed in this paper. Firstly, an improved DV-Hop algorithm was proposed, which can reduce the localization error of DV-Hop algorithm by controlling the network topology and improving the method for calculating average hop distance. Meanwhile, aiming at the slow convergence in traditional cuckoo search algorithm, the adaptive strategy was improved for the step search strategy and the bird's nest recycling strategy. And the adaptive cuckoo search algorithm was introduced to the process of node localization to optimize the unknown node position estimation. The experiment results show that compared with the improved DV-Hop algorithm and the traditional DV-Hop algorithm, the DV-Hop algorithm optimized by adaptive cuckoo search algorithm improved the localization accuracy and reduced the localization errors.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (14) ◽  
pp. 3127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wafa Njima ◽  
Iness Ahriz ◽  
Rafik Zayani ◽  
Michel Terre ◽  
Ridha Bouallegue

Currently, indoor localization is among the most challenging issues related to the Internet of Things (IoT). Most of the state-of-the-art indoor localization solutions require a high computational complexity to achieve a satisfying localization accuracy and do not meet the memory limitations of IoT devices. In this paper, we develop a localization framework that shifts the online prediction complexity to an offline preprocessing step, based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Motivated by the outstanding performance of such networks in the image classification field, the indoor localization problem is formulated as 3D radio image-based region recognition. It aims to localize a sensor node accurately by determining its location region. 3D radio images are constructed based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) fingerprints. The simulation results justify the choice of the different parameters, optimization algorithms, and model architectures used. Considering the trade-off between localization accuracy and computational complexity, our proposed method outperforms other popular approaches.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2000
Author(s):  
Marius Laska ◽  
Jörg Blankenbach

Location-based services (LBS) have gained increasing importance in our everyday lives and serve as the foundation for many smartphone applications. Whereas Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) enable reliable position estimation outdoors, there does not exist any comparable gold standard for indoor localization yet. Wireless local area network (WLAN) fingerprinting is still a promising and widely adopted approach to indoor localization, since it does not rely on preinstalled hardware but uses the existing WLAN infrastructure typically present in buildings. The accuracy of the method is, however, limited due to unstable fingerprints, etc. Deep learning has recently gained attention in the field of indoor localization and is also utilized to increase the performance of fingerprinting-based approaches. Current solutions can be grouped into models that either estimate the exact position of the user (regression) or classify the area (pre-segmented floor plan) or a reference location. We propose a model, DeepLocBox (DLB), that offers reliable area localization in multi-building/multi-floor environments without the prerequisite of a pre-segmented floor plan. Instead, the model predicts a bounding box that contains the user’s position while minimizing the required prediction space (size of the box). We compare the performance of DLB with the standard approach of neural network-based position estimation and demonstrate that DLB achieves a gain in success probability by 9.48% on a self-collected dataset at RWTH Aachen University, Germany; by 5.48% for a dataset provided by Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland; and by 3.71% for the UJIIndoorLoc dataset collected at Jaume I University (UJI) campus, Spain.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 574
Author(s):  
Chendong Xu ◽  
Weigang Wang ◽  
Yunwei Zhang ◽  
Jie Qin ◽  
Shujuan Yu ◽  
...  

With the increasing demand of location-based services, neural network (NN)-based intelligent indoor localization has attracted great interest due to its high localization accuracy. However, deep NNs are usually affected by degradation and gradient vanishing. To fill this gap, we propose a novel indoor localization system, including denoising NN and residual network (ResNet), to predict the location of moving object by the channel state information (CSI). In the ResNet, to prevent overfitting, we replace all the residual blocks by the stochastic residual blocks. Specially, we explore the long-range stochastic shortcut connection (LRSSC) to solve the degradation problem and gradient vanishing. To obtain a large receptive field without losing information, we leverage the dilated convolution at the rear of the ResNet. Experimental results are presented to confirm that our system outperforms state-of-the-art methods in a representative indoor environment.


Author(s):  
Hang Li ◽  
Xi Chen ◽  
Ju Wang ◽  
Di Wu ◽  
Xue Liu

WiFi-based Device-free Passive (DfP) indoor localization systems liberate their users from carrying dedicated sensors or smartphones, and thus provide a non-intrusive and pleasant experience. Although existing fingerprint-based systems achieve sub-meter-level localization accuracy by training location classifiers/regressors on WiFi signal fingerprints, they are usually vulnerable to small variations in an environment. A daily change, e.g., displacement of a chair, may cause a big inconsistency between the recorded fingerprints and the real-time signals, leading to significant localization errors. In this paper, we introduce a Domain Adaptation WiFi (DAFI) localization approach to address the problem. DAFI formulates this fingerprint inconsistency issue as a domain adaptation problem, where the original environment is the source domain and the changed environment is the target domain. Directly applying existing domain adaptation methods to our specific problem is challenging, since it is generally hard to distinguish the variations in the different WiFi domains (i.e., signal changes caused by different environmental variations). DAFI embraces the following techniques to tackle this challenge. 1) DAFI aligns both marginal and conditional distributions of features in different domains. 2) Inside the target domain, DAFI squeezes the marginal distribution of every class to be more concentrated at its center. 3) Between two domains, DAFI conducts fine-grained alignment by forcing every target-domain class to better align with its source-domain counterpart. By doing these, DAFI outperforms the state of the art by up to 14.2% in real-world experiments.


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