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Survey of Indoor Positioning Technologies and Systems

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Life System Modeling and Simulation (ICSEE 2014, LSMS 2014)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 461))

Abstract

This paper presents the state-of-the-art of the leading indoor positioning technologies and systems. The positioning technology is classified into the active positioning system and the passive positioning system, which are presented respectively in detail, including wireless local area network, radio frequency identification, Bluetooth, inertial navigation, and magnetic field positioning. Additionally, the advantages and disadvantages of various indoor positioning technologies and systems are analyzed, as well as the positioning accuracy, applicability, and working principle. Particularly, in order to better understand them, the key performance parameters of the mentioned technologies and systems are finally compared using a table.

This work was supported by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality under “Yangfan Program” (14YF1408600), the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization under Shanghai Industry-University-Research Collaboration Grant (CXY-2013-71).

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    Lingling Zhu, Aolei Yang, Dingbing Wu & Li Liu

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    Shiwei Ma , Li Jia , Xin Li , Ling Wang  & Xin Sun , , ,  & 

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    Huiyu Zhou

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Zhu, L., Yang, A., Wu, D., Liu, L. (2014). Survey of Indoor Positioning Technologies and Systems. In: Ma, S., Jia, L., Li, X., Wang, L., Zhou, H., Sun, X. (eds) Life System Modeling and Simulation. ICSEE LSMS 2014 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 461. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45283-7_41

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