Imran Ashraf¹, Muhammad Usman Ali², Soojung Hur¹, Gunzung Kim¹, Yongwan Park^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1747-1768, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020610

Abstract Indoor positioning and localization have emerged as a potential research area during the last few years owing to the wide proliferation of smartphones and the inception of location-attached services for the consumer industry. Due to the importance of precise location information, several positioning technologies are adopted such as Wi-Fi, ultrawideband, infrared, radio frequency identification, Bluetooth beacons, pedestrian dead reckoning, and magnetic field, etc. Although Wi-Fi and magnetic field-based positioning are more attractive concerning the deployment of Wi-Fi access points and ubiquity of magnetic field data, the latter is preferred as it does not require any additional infrastructure as other approaches… More >

Imran Ashraf, Sadia Din, Soojung Hur, Yongwan Park^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5213-5232, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018707

Abstract Precise information on indoor positioning provides a foundation for position-related customer services. Despite the emergence of several indoor positioning technologies such as ultrawideband, infrared, radio frequency identification, Bluetooth beacons, pedestrian dead reckoning, and magnetic field, Wi-Fi is one of the most widely used technologies. Predominantly, Wi-Fi fingerprinting is the most popular method and has been researched over the past two decades. Wi-Fi positioning faces three core problems: device heterogeneity, robustness to signal changes caused by human mobility, and device attitude, i.e., varying orientations. The existing methods do not cover these aspects owing to the unavailability of publicly available datasets. This… More >