Indoor Wi-Fi Positioning: Techniques and Systems—2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 802
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Interests: positioning and navigation with GNSS; location-based services; indoor and pedestrian navigation; applications of multi-sensor systems; smartphone positioning and sensor fusion
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Dear Colleagues,
Wi-Fi is one of the most widely used signals for positioning and tracking mobile users. It has been widely adopted for smartphone-based indoor positioning systems due to the availability of infrastructure already deployed for communications. A high number of access points (APs) exist for public and private networks, guaranteeing a high signal ubiquity. The Wi-Fi signals therefore have great potential to be employed for numerous applications for localization and guidance. Localization is based either on direct measurements of the received signal strength (RSS) of the surrounding Wi-Fi access points or on the measurement of the round-trip time (RTT) between the mobile device and the access points. Localization methods, therefore, include lateration and fingerprinting algorithms. Depending on the positioning technique adopted, different levels of positioning accuracy are achievable. This Special Issue is addressed to researchers on all types of localization approaches and algorithms. A special emphasis will be placed on novel approaches for RSS- and RTT-based positioning and their combination and integration. Moreover, sensor integration and fusion, especially in the case of smartphone positioning, represent a major research direction. Original contributions focused on systems and technologies to enable a variety of indoor localization applications are welcome. This Special Issue will provide the opportunity to disseminate, among the scientific community, relevant and new contributions related to the widespread use of Wi-Fi, such as mobile devices, the localization of mobile users in indoor and transitional environments, and location-based services (LBSs), as well as algorithm developments for these applications and the use of new and traditional technologies based on Wi-Fi in indoor spaces.
Prof. Dr. Günther Retscher
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wireless fidelity Wi-Fi
- received signal strength RSS
- round trip time RTT measurements
- lateration
- location fingerprinting
- combination of techniques
- sensor integration and fusion
- positioning algorithms
- indoor user localization
- seamless transition between different environments
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