Indoor Positioning System

 

Magnetic field based IPS (Indoor positioning system)

 

We present an indoor positioning system that measures location using disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field caused by structural steel elements in a building.  The presence of these large  steel members warps the geomagnetic field in a way that is spatially varying but

temporally stable. To localize, we measure the magnetic field using an array of e-compasses and compare the measurement with a previously obtained magnetic map. We

demonstrate accuracy within 1 meter 88% of the time in experiments in two buildings and across multiple floors within the buildings. We discuss several constraint techniques that can maintain accuracy as the sample space increases

Friday, January 20, 2012

 
 

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