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Easy to Install Indoor Positioning System that Parasitizes Home Lighting

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2017)

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This paper proposes a new indoor positioning system that utilizes home lighting. We design a beacon for use in the system that is inserted between a home light bulb and its socket, and is supplied with electricity from the socket. This means that the end user can easily install the system in his/her environment. In addition, we propose a fingerprinting-based indoor positioning method that employs signals received from the beacons. Because the ON/OFF states of our beacons change according to the ON/OFF states of the lighting, the signal strengths from the beacons also change greatly and this reduces positioning accuracy. So, we improve the positioning accuracy by estimating the ON/OFF states of the lighting based on the residents’ life patterns.

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Acknowledgement

This work was partially supported by JST CREST and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP26730047 and 16H06539.

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  1. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Takuya Maekawa & Yuki Sakumichi

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  1. Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany

    Andreas Braun

  2. Center for Research in Security and Privacy CRISP, Darmstadt, Germany

    Reiner Wichert

  3. University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

    Antonio Maña

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Maekawa, T., Sakumichi, Y. (2017). Easy to Install Indoor Positioning System that Parasitizes Home Lighting. In: Braun, A., Wichert, R., Maña, A. (eds) Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56997-0_9

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