Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 1770-1785Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2019.2957363
Keywords
Indoor navigation; mobile computing; Internet of Things (IoT)
Funding
- National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore, through its Strategic Capability Research Centres Funding Initiative
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Indoor positioning plays an important role in various location-based services (LBSs). In conventional systems, the process of constructing radio maps for positioning usually involves labor-intensive manual calibrations, which seriously limits the system's scalability and adaptiveness. In this paper, we propose an efficient calibration-free method by leveraging on crowdsourced WiFi signal data that are captured passively through a WiFi sensing testbed. Since the ground truths of the crowdsourced data are unavailable, the radio maps cannot be directly constructed. In the proposed method, we adopt the multidimensional scaling (MDS) technique to compute the positions of the unlabeled data thereby generating radio maps. In order to enable MDS, we estimate the pairwise distances among the unlabeled data by using an improved trilateration method and a law of cosine (LoC)-based geometrical algorithm without online pairwise measurements. Experimental results show that the accuracy of the proposed method is higher than trilateration-based method and reasonably lower than that of calibration-based method. Meanwhile, the run time of the proposed method is shorter than previous optimization-based methods. The short run time allows the radio maps to be dynamically updated against the environmental variations.
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