Bluetooth Indoor Positioning System using Fingerprinting

Christian Frost, Casper Svenning Jensen, Kasper Søe Luckow, Bent Thomsen, Rene Hansen

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Abstract


Indoor Positioning has been an active research area in the last decade, but so far, commercial Indoor Positioning Systems (IPSs) have been sparse. The main obstacle towards widely available IPSs has been the lack of appropriate, low cost technologies, that enable indoor positioning.
While Wi-Fi infrastructures are ubiquitous, consumer-oriented Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones have been missing. Conversely, while Bluetooth technology is present in the vast majority of consumer mobile phones, Bluetooth infrastructures have been missing. Bluetooth infrastructures have typically been installed as part of complete hardware/software IPSs that often incur a substantial hardware cost. Furthermore,
Bluetooth has low power consumption compared to Wi-Fi devices, which promotes longer battery life-time on mobile phones. In this paper, we present a Bluetooth IPS based entirely on commodity-grade products.
The positioning accuracy is evaluated by using the so-called location fingerprinting technique which is well-known from Wi-Fi positioning literature. The results show that 2 meters median accuracy is achievable - a result that compares favourably to results for Wi-Fi based systems.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobile Lightweight Wireless Systems : Third International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2011, Bilbao, Spain, May 9-10, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Number of pages15
Volume81
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2012
Pages136-150
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-29478-5
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-642-29479-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
EventThird International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2011: 3rd International ICST Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems - Bilbao, Spain
Duration: 9 May 201111 May 2011
Conference number: 3

Conference

ConferenceThird International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2011
Number3
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBilbao
Period09/05/201111/05/2011
SeriesLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume81
ISSN1867-8211

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