Combining WLAN fingerprint-based localization with sensor data for indoor navigation using mobile devices

• Author(s): Francisco Garcia, Nadal Vicent
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/13795
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Subject(s): GIS Applications; Pedestrian Dead Reckoning; Motion Sensors; Position Sensors; Indoor Navigation
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Colás, Raúl Montoliu; Henriques, Roberto André Pereira; Belmonte Fernández, Óscar
• Contributor(s): RUN

Description

This project proposes an approach for supporting Indoor Navigation Systems using Pedestrian Dead Reckoning-based methods and by analyzing motion sensor data available in most modern smartphones. Processes suggested in this investigation are able to calculate the distance traveled by a user while he or she is walking. WLAN fingerprint- based navigation systems benefit from the processes followed in this research and results achieved to reduce its workload and improve its positioning estimations.