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Wearable and IoT devices requiring positioning and localisation services grow in number exponentially every year. This rapid growth also produces millions of data entries that need to be pre-processed prior to being used in any indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Darwin Quezada-Gaibor , Lucie Klus , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Elena Simona Lohan , Jari Nurmi , Carlos Granell , Joaquín Huerta

WiFi-based device localization is a key enabling technology for smart applications, which has attracted numerous research studies in the past decade. Most of the existing approaches rely on Line-of-Sight (LoS) signals to work, while a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yimiao Sun , Yuan He , Jiacheng Zhang , Xin Na , Yande Chen , Weiguo Wang , Xiuzhen Guo

Localization of a wireless mobile device or a robot in indoor and GPS-denied environments is a difficult problem, particularly in dynamic scenarios where traditional cameras and LIDAR-based alternative sensing and localization modalities…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ehsan Latif , Ramviyas Parasuraman

In recent years, there has been an increasing number of information technologies utilized in buildings to advance the idea of "smart buildings". Among various potential techniques, the use of Wi-Fi based indoor positioning allows to locate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Qian Huang , Yuanzhi Zhang , Zhenhao Ge , Chao Lu

Wireless indoor localization using predictive models with received signal strength information (RSSI) requires proper calibration for reliable position estimates. One remedy is to employ synthetic labels produced by a (generally different)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Seonghoon Yoo , Houssem Sifaou , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang , Osvaldo Simeone

Recognizing user location with WiFi fingerprints is a popular approach for accurate indoor positioning problems. In this work, our goal is to interpret WiFi fingerprints into actual user locations. However, WiFi fingerprint data can be very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Weizhu Qian , Franck Gechter

Indoor positioning systems exploiting WLAN signal measurements such as Received Signal Strength (RSS) are gaining popularity due to high accuracy of the results. Sets of RSS and other measurements at designated locations from available WLAN…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-18 Erick Schmidt , Misbahuddin A. Mohammed , David Akopian

For decades, the determination of an objects location has been implemented utilizing different technologies. Despite GPS (Global Positioning System) provides a scalable efficient and cost effective location services however the satellite…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani , Nazim Choudhury

Mobile devices have been shipped with multiple wireless network interfaces in order to meet their diverse communication and networking demands. In this paper, we propose an A-GPS assisted scheme that discovers the nearest Wi-Fi network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Feng Xia , Wei Zhang , Fangwei Ding , Ruonan Hao

This paper presents a method for continuous indoor-outdoor environment detection on mobile devices based solely on WiFi fingerprints. Detection of indoor outdoor switching is an important part of identifying a user's context, and it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Guy Shtar , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

The positioning of users using their smartphones represents interesting service for various areas. Position of users can represent valuable information for various service providers. In industry 4.0 smart devices such as smartphone or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jan Racko , Juraj Machaj , Peter Brida

The ubiquitous presence of WiFi access points and mobile devices capable of measuring WiFi signal strengths allow for real-world applications in indoor localization and mapping. In particular, no additional infrastructure is required.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Bastian Schaefermeier , Gerd Stumme , Tom Hanika

Situational awareness and Indoor location tracking for firefighters is one of the tasks with paramount importance in search and rescue operations. For Indoor Positioning systems (IPS), GPS is not the best possible solution. There are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Vamsi Karthik Vadlamani , Manish Bhattarai , Meenu Ajith , Manel Martınez-Ramon

Nowadays, indoor localization has received extensive research interest due to more and more applications' needs for location information to provide a more precise and effective service [1], [2]. There are various wireless techniques and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Taolei Shi , Wei Gong

Indoor localization opens the path to potentially transformative applications. Although many indoor localization methods have been proposed over the years, they remain too impractical for widespread deployment in the real world. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Emerson Sie , Enguang Fan , Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey , Deepak Vasisht

The wide spread of mobiles as handheld devices leads to various innovative applications that makes use of their ever increasing presence in our daily life. One such application is location tracking and monitoring. This paper proposes a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-09 B. P. S. Sahoo , Satyajit Rath

Effective indoor positioning is critical for public safety, enabling first responders to locate at-risk individuals accurately during emergency scenarios. However, traditional Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) often perform poorly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Gaurav Duggal , Harish K. Dureppagari , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed , R. Michael Buehrer

Many recent works have explored using WiFi-based sensing to improve SLAM, robot manipulation, or exploration. Moreover, widespread availability makes WiFi the most advantageous RF signal to leverage. But WiFi sensors lack an accurate,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-24 William Hunter , Aditya Arun , Dinesh Bharadia

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in the research topic of WiFi sensing that automatically senses human with commercial WiFi devices. This work falls into two major categories, i.e., the activity recognition and the indoor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jianwei Feng , Yinliang Zhao , Xiaobin Zhang , Shiyuan Zhang , Jinsong Han

Positioning has recently received considerable attention as a key enabler in emerging applications such as extended reality, unmanned aerial vehicles and smart environments. These applications require both data communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Yufei Blankenship , Jemin Lee , Zabih Ghassemlooy , Julian Cheng , Shiwen Mao