Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4794/2007, 108-123, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76652-0_7

A Study on the Suitability of GSM Signatures for Indoor Location

Carlos Bento, Teresa Soares, Marco Veloso and Bruno Baptista

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Abstract

Location is an important topic on Ambient Intelligence. Different techniques are used, alone or together, to determine the position of people and objects. One aspect of this problem concerns to indoor location. Various authors propose the analysis of Radio Frequency (RF) signatures as a solution for this challenge. An approach for indoor location is the use of RF signals acquired from a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) by Mobile Units(MU).
In this paper we make a study based on around 485.000 signatures gathered from four buildings. We present our conclusions on the suitability and limitations of this approach for indoor location.

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