Abstract
Personal navigation systems enjoy great popularity. This work presents an indoor self-localization system that resembles outdoor GPS-Positioning. An user-friendly Bluetooth-based solution has been implemented that provides the user with orientation information within a building. Bluetooth technology allows to keep a low budget and low power system. Our region-based localization method is tailored to run completely on the personal platform, and though assures user privacy. Our approach stands out with platform independence, privacy and power awareness.
This work is supported by the Förderprogramm Informationstechnik Baden-Württemberg (BW-FIT) and Programme Alban, European Union Programme of High Level Scholarships for Latin America, n. E04D045457BR.
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Filho, J.O., Bunoza, A., Sommer, J., Rosenstiel, W. (2008). Self-Localization in a Low Cost Bluetooth Environment. In: Sandnes, F.E., Zhang, Y., Rong, C., Yang, L.T., Ma, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. UIC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69293-5_21
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