Hybrid wireless indoor positioning with iBeacon and Wi-Fi

The fingerprint of location can reach high precision and high accuracy with the assistance of complex positioning algorithms. However, the indoor environment is complex so that the accuracy of indoor positioning is affected easily and seriously by several kinds of signal interference. In this paper, we use iBeacon as anchor method to help WiFi positioning algorithms. In the hybrid algorithms, iBeacon divides the space into different parts, with the combined iBeacon and Wi-Fi offline fingerprint data, and then it locates partly. Compared to the single Wi-Fi indoor positioning algorithms, it can significantly reduce the amount of calculation and the error of positioning.