Title
Calibration of Wi-Fi-based indoor tracking systems for android-based smartphones
Date Issued
01 May 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Publisher(s)
MDPI AG
Abstract
With the growing development of smartphones equipped with Wi-Fi technology and the need of inexpensive indoor location systems, many researchers are focusing their efforts on the development of Wi-Fi-based indoor localization methods. However, due to the difficulties in characterizing theWi-Fi radio signal propagation in such environments, the development of universal indoor localization mechanisms is still an open issue. In this paper, we focus on the calibration of Wi-Fi-based indoor tracking systems to be used by smartphones. The primary goal is to build an accurate and robust Wi-Fi signal propagation representation in indoor scenarios.We analyze the suitability of our approach in a smartphone-based indoor tracking system by introducing a novel in-motion calibration methodology using three different signal propagation characterizations supplemented with a particle filter. We compare the results obtained with each one of the three characterization in-motion calibration methodologies and those obtained using a static calibration approach, in a real-world scenario. Based on our experimental results, we show that the use of an in-motion calibration mechanism considerably improves the tracking accuracy.
Volume
11
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85065732398
Source
Remote Sensing
Sponsor(s)
This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under Grant numbers TIN2015-66972-C5-2-R and TIN2015-65686-C5-3-R, and by the Regional Council of Education, Culture and Sports of Castilla-La Mancha under grant number SBPLY/17/180501/000493, supported with FEDER funds. Miguel Martínez del Horno is also funded by the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha grant 2016/14100.
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