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Indoor Positioning and Navigation System for Interior Design Augmented Reality

Authors:
Fady Adel
Mina Makary
Mohamed El-Nahas
Mustafa ElNainay

Keywords: Indoor positioning; Indoor navigation; WiFi fingerprinting; Sensor fusion; Interior design augmented reality

Abstract:
The problem of indoor localization and navigation has become increasingly important for a range of different applications. One of these applications is interior design augmented reality. Due to the inability of the global positioning system (GPS) to navigate indoors, and the lack of any global indoor localization scheme, research has turned to develop several approaches and solutions to indoor localization. Accuracy of these techniques ranges from few centimeters to few meters depending on the technology used. High accuracy is achieved through special hardware equipment. For interior design applications, users are interested in getting high accuracy in certain positions depending on the design layout. It is also desirable to use market tablets and mobile phones rather than special hardware for such applications. In this paper, a hybrid WiFi fingerprinting - sensor fusion scheme is proposed to achieve accurate indoor positioning and navigation using Android tablets. Moreover, an algorithm has been developed to determine the WiFi Access Points (APs) positions given the apartment layout. Results show high accuracy for both the positioning and navigation parts.

Pages: 28 to 33

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: April 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3964

ISBN: 978-1-61208-396-4

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015