Indoor Positioning with floor determination in Multi Story Buildings

Firas Alsehly*, Tughrul Arslan, Zankar Sevak

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Floor determination is one of the challenges in indoor positioning research. To date indoor positioning solutions for floor determination have been mainly based on either Fingerprinting [2] or RF-ID [3]. While these solutions have been able to locate persons or equipments accurately even in multi story buildings, these can not be considered as time and cost efficient solutions. Therefore, in this research we present new Wi-Fi based indoor positioning algorithms in order to accommodate the need for limited resources solution in terms of deployment time and cost. While finger-printing and RF-ID based solutions have been targeting sub-meter position accuracy, this research focuses on floor determination only. In addition, in this research we have highlighted two possible approaches by using available Wi-Fi signals for floor determination.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDOOR POSITIONING AND INDOOR NAVIGATION
Place of PublicationNEW YORK
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number of pages7
Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventInternational Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) - Guimaraes, Portugal
Duration: 21 Sept 201123 Sept 2011

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Print)2162-7347

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
Country/TerritoryPortugal
Period21/09/1123/09/11

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Indoor Positioning
  • Floor detection
  • Floor determination

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