On the Dynamic RSS Feedbacks of Indoor Fingerprinting Databases for Localization Reliability Improvement

• Main Authors: Xiaoyang Wen, Wenyuan Tao, Chung-Ming Own, Zhenjiang Pan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2016-08-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: location estimation; RSS fingerprinting; Bluetooth low energy; adaptive RSS fingerprint; feedbacks
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/8/1278

Location data is one of the most widely used context data types in context-aware and ubiquitous computing applications. To support locating applications in indoor environments, numerous systems with different deployment costs and positioning accuracies have been developed over the past decade. One useful method, based on received signal strength (RSS), provides a set of signal transmission access points. However, compiling a remeasurement RSS database involves a high cost, which is impractical in dynamically changing environments, particularly in highly crowded areas. In this study, we propose a dynamic estimation resampling method for certain locations chosen from a set of remeasurement fingerprinting databases. Our proposed method adaptively applies different, newly updated and offline fingerprinting points according to the temporal and spatial strength of the location. To achieve accuracy within a simulated area, the proposed method requires approximately 3% of the feedback to attain a double correctness probability comparable to similar methods; in a real environment, our proposed method can obtain excellent 1 m accuracy errors in the positioning system.