Ad-hoc networks aiding indoor calibrations of heterogeneous devices for Fingerprinting applications

Author

Della Rosa, Francescantonio ; Leppäkoski, Helena ; Biancullo, Stefano ; Nurmi, Jari

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Syst., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2010

fDate

15-17 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper we propose a Collaborative Mapping (CM) method based on the exploitation of the WLAN Received Signal Strength (RSS) measured from short-range ad-hoc links between neighboring devices. The estimated spatial proximity allows on-the-fly calibrations of heterogeneous clients for Location Fingerprinting (LF) applications. This method can avoid long time-consuming and battery-draining calibrations when implementing Fingerprinting Location applications running on heterogeneous mass market devices.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; calibration; indoor radio; radio links; radionavigation; wireless LAN; CM method; WLAN received signal strength; ad hoc networks aiding indoor calibration; collaborative mapping method; heterogeneous device; location fingerprinting application; short-range ad hoc links; spatial proximity; Ad hoc networks; Calibration; Databases; Estimation; Fingerprint recognition; Mobile communication; Position measurement; Fingerprinting; Indoor Positioning; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5862-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5865-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPIN.2010.5647827

Filename

5647827