TY - GEN
T1 - Indoor navigation using virtual anchor points
AU - Hoffmann, Eike Jens
AU - Werner, Martin
AU - Schauer, Lorenz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/8/2
Y1 - 2016/8/2
N2 - Indoor navigation and location-awareness are important and growing research areas due to the interest of mobile users in location-based services comparable to outside services. However, indoor positioning is a very hard task. Without installing dedicated hardware into a building, indoor positioning is a problem with inherent ambiguity. Using Wi-Fi signals to calculate location is a classical and successful approach for localizing mobile devices in buildings. With this paper, however, we provide support for proximity detection using Wi-Fi, which is considerably less ambiguous and still sufficiently useful for many indoor location-based services. Additionally, presence-based positioning has seen a boost in adoption due to the invention of cheap dedicated devices for localization including iBeacon and similar Bluetooth 4.0 beacons. We provide a concept called Virtual Anchor Point, which is a low-dimensional representation of the essence of a point in signal space providing a presence-based location-aware system.
AB - Indoor navigation and location-awareness are important and growing research areas due to the interest of mobile users in location-based services comparable to outside services. However, indoor positioning is a very hard task. Without installing dedicated hardware into a building, indoor positioning is a problem with inherent ambiguity. Using Wi-Fi signals to calculate location is a classical and successful approach for localizing mobile devices in buildings. With this paper, however, we provide support for proximity detection using Wi-Fi, which is considerably less ambiguous and still sufficiently useful for many indoor location-based services. Additionally, presence-based positioning has seen a boost in adoption due to the invention of cheap dedicated devices for localization including iBeacon and similar Bluetooth 4.0 beacons. We provide a concept called Virtual Anchor Point, which is a low-dimensional representation of the essence of a point in signal space providing a presence-based location-aware system.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84992045205&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EURONAV.2016.7530571
DO - 10.1109/EURONAV.2016.7530571
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84992045205
T3 - 2016 European Navigation Conference, ENC 2016
BT - 2016 European Navigation Conference, ENC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 24th European Navigation Conference, ENC 2016
Y2 - 30 May 2016 through 2 June 2016
ER -