Journal
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
Volume 41, Issue 14, Pages 6211-6223Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.04.011
Keywords
Indoor positioning; WiFi networks; Received signal strength; Fingerprint techniques; Clustering; Kohonen layer; K-medians; Backpropagation
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This paper focuses on the positioning of Wi-Fi nodes in multi-floor indoor environments. A target radio-frequency (RF) fingerprint - measured by the MS to be localized - is compared with georeferenced RF fingerprints, previously stored in a correlation database (CDB). Therefore, this strategy lies within the so-called Database Correlation Methods (DCM) used to locate mobile stations (MS) in wireless networks. To obtain best matches in terms of architectural structures such as floors, doors, aisles, among others, the authors apply two combined techniques that improve localization accuracy: unsupervised clustering (K-medians and Kohonen layer) and majority voting committees of backpropagation artificial neural networks (ANNs). The unsupervised clustering is employed to allow collected data (the fingerprints) to group freely in their natural space, without precluding - through the imposition of architectural constraints - any natural arrangement of the collected fingerprints. The proposed combined strategy improves floor identification accuracy, which in indoor multi-floor positioning must be high. The effects of the proposed solution on the DCM positioning accuracy are experimentally evaluated using actual measured data. In the trial the floor identification accuracy ranged from 91% to 97%, and the average 20 positioning error ranged from 4.5 to 1.7 m, depending on the size of the measurement window (from 1 to 25 samples). (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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