
Geographical and Fingerprinting Data for Positioning and Navigation Systems
Challenges, Experiences and Technology Roadmap
- 1st Edition - September 14, 2018
- Editors: Jordi Conesa, Antoni Pérez-Navarro, Joaquin Torres-Sospedra, Raul Montoliu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 1 8 9 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 1 9 0 - 9
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Geographical and Fingerprinting Data for Positioning and Navigation Systems: Challenges, Experiences and Technology Roadmap explores the state-of-the -art software tools and innovative strategies to provide better understanding of positioning and navigation in indoor environments using fingerprinting techniques. The book provides the different problems and challenges of indoor positioning and navigation services and shows how fingerprinting can be used to address such necessities. This advanced publication provides the useful references educational institutions, industry, academic researchers, professionals, developers and practitioners need to apply, evaluate and reproduce this book’s contributions.
The readers will learn how to apply the necessary infrastructure to provide fingerprinting services and scalable environments to deal with fingerprint data.
- Provides the current state of fingerprinting for indoor positioning and navigation, along with its challenges and achievements
- Presents solutions for using WIFI signals to position and navigate in indoor environments
- Covers solutions for using the magnetic field to position and navigate in indoor environments
- Contains solutions of a modular positioning system as a solution for seamless positioning
- Analyzes geographical and fingerprint data in order to provide indoor/outdoor location and navigation systems
Researchers and PhD students in the geographical information systems, geography and machine learning domain
1. Challenges of Fingerprinting in Indoor Positioning and Navigation
2. Wi-Fi Tracking Threatens Users’ Privacy in Fingerprinting Techniques
3. Lessons Learned in Generating Ground Truth for Indoor Positioning Systems Based on Wi-Fi Fingerprinting
4. Radio Maps for Fingerprinting in Indoor Positioning
5. Crowdsourced Indoor Mapping
6. Study and Evaluation of Selected RSSI-Based Positioning Algorithms
7. Low-Complexity Offline and Online Strategies for Wi-Fi Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning Systems
8. Radio Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization: Overcoming Practical Challenges
9. Mapping Indoor Environments: Challenges Related to the Cartographic Representation and Routes
10. OGC IndoorGML: A Standard Approach for Indoor Maps
11. The EvAAL Evaluation Framework and the IPIN Competitions
12. IndoorLoc Platform: A Web Tool to Support the Comparison of Indoor Positioning Systems
13. Challenges and Solutions in Received Signal Strength-Based Seamless Positioning
14. Deployment of a Passive Localization System for Occupancy Services in a Lecture Building
15. Remote Monitoring for Safety of Workers in Industrial Plants: Learned Lessons Beyond Technical Issues
16. A Review of Indoor Localization Methods Based on Inertial Sensors
17. Fundamentals of Airborne Acoustic Positioning Systems
18. Indoor Positioning System Based on PSD Sensor
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 14, 2018
- Language: English
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Jordi Conesa
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Antoni Pérez-Navarro
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Joaquin Torres-Sospedra
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