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, Soojung Hur, Yousaf Bin Zikria, Yongwan Park^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 2597-2620, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016214

Abstract Predominantly the localization accuracy of the magnetic field-based localization approaches is severed by two limiting factors: Smartphone heterogeneity and smaller data lengths. The use of multifarious smartphones cripples the performance of such approaches owing to the variability of the magnetic field data. In the same vein, smaller lengths of magnetic field data decrease the localization accuracy substantially. The current study proposes the use of multiple neural networks like deep neural network (DNN), long short term memory network (LSTM), and gated recurrent unit network (GRN) to perform indoor localization based on the embedded magnetic sensor of the smartphone. A voting scheme… More >