Journal
SENSORS
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s18010205
Keywords
wireless indoor localization system; subregion clustering; fingerprint; cheap communication chip
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61462021]
- Guangxi Scientific Research and Technology Development Project [2016AD02010]
- Nature Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant [341548]
- Hunan Province Science and Technology Program [2017GK2274]
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Reducing costs is a pragmatic method for promoting the widespread usage of indoor localization technology. Conventional indoor localization systems (ILSs) exploit relatively expensive wireless chips to measure received signal strength for positioning. Our work is based on a cheap and widely-used commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) wireless chip, i.e., the Nordic Semiconductor nRF24LE1, which has only several output power levels, and proposes a new power level based-ILS, called Plils. The localization procedure incorporates two phases: an offline training phase and an online localization phase. In the offline training phase, a self-organizing map (SOM) is utilized for dividing a target area into k subregions, wherein their grids in the same subregion have similar fingerprints. In the online localization phase, the support vector machine (SVM) and back propagation (BP) neural network methods are adopted to identify which subregion a tagged object is located in, and calculate its exact location, respectively. The reasonable value for k has been discussed as well. Our experiments show that Plils achieves 75 cm accuracy on average, and is robust to indoor obstacles.
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