The Improved Fingerprint-Based Indoor Localization with RFID/PDR/MM Technologies

Jie Wu, Minghua Zhu, Bo Xiao, Yunzhou Qiu

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Abstract

The fingerprint based indoor localization is becoming a dominant solution for its high applicability in complex indoor environment. However, the extensive site survey efforts on manpower and time have become a major bottleneck. Based on the crowdsourcing method, the paper puts forward a novel indoor localization with the fusion of RFID (radio frequency identification devices), PDR (pedestrian dead reckoning)and MM (magnetic matching)technologies. First, a zero-effort fingerprint automated construction and site survey update scheme is proposed with the dual-frequency RFID. Second, in order to solve the problem that step length would vary from person to person which results into positioning bias, the RSS technology and floor map is introduced to aid step length estimation. Third, the particle filter is adopted to fuse the advantages of three different technologies to conduct the accurate indoor positioning. In the experiment, the obtained fingerprint database is demonstrated to possess a comparable accuracy with the human-annotated database. Also, the experiment results show that the proposed method achieves the comparable positioning accuracy and the positioning accuracy is 40% higher than the PDR system or RFID positioning system alone.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE 24th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2018
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages878-885
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781538673089
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2018
Event24th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2018 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 11 Dec 201813 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS
Volume2018-December
ISSN (Print)1521-9097

Conference

Conference24th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2018
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period11/12/1813/12/18

Keywords

  • RFID
  • crowdsourcing
  • fingerprint database
  • magnetic matching
  • particle filter
  • pedestrian dead reckoning

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