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Indoor Positioning System Using Beacon Devices for Practical Pedestrian Navigation on Mobile Phone
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Indoor Positioning System Using Beacon Devices for Practical Pedestrian Navigation on Mobile Phone
Yutaka Inoue19, 20 , Akio Sashima19, 20 and Koichi Kurumatani19, 20 
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ITRI, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), |
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CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 2-41-6, Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan |
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a positioning system for indoor pedestrian navigation services using mobile phones. Position information
services with a Global Positioning System (GPS) are widely used for car navigation and portable navigation. Their navigation
systems facilitate development of industry and increase the convenience of civil life. However, such systems and services
are available only for locations in which satellite signals can be received because users’ self-positions are computed using
GPS. Therefore, we developed a system for indoor environments, operating with a user’s mobile terminal and battery-driven
beacon devices in a server-less environment. Moreover, to provide convenient services using position information indoors,
we developed an indoor navigation system that is useful in commercial facilities and office buildings. The system consists
of smart phone and license-free radio beacon devices that can be driven with little electric power. In our proposed method,
probabilistic estimation algorithms are applied to estimate self-positions in indoor locations, such as those where it is
impossible to receive GPS signals. Feature of the system is that 2.5-dimensional indoor positioning is possible to calculate
with low computational power device such as mobile phone. The system works autonomously, i.e., the user’s device receives
wireless beacon signals from the surrounding environment and can thereby detect a user’s position independently from the mobile
terminal, thereby obviating server-side computation.
Keywords Indoor positioning - Localization - Particle filter - Navigation - Smartphone - Mobile phone - Beacon - License-free radio wave
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