Improving Location Fingerprinting through Motion Detection and Asynchronous Interval Labeling

  • Authors:
  • Philipp Bolliger;Kurt Partridge;Maurice Chu;Marc Langheinrich

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, USA;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, USA;Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • LoCA '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Wireless signal strength fingerprinting has become an increasingly popular technique for realizing indoor localization systems using existing WiFi infrastructures. However, these systems typically require a time-consuming and costly training phase to build the radio map. Moreover, since radio signals change and fluctuate over time, map maintenance requires continuous re-calibration. We introduce a new concept called "asynchronous interval labeling" that addresses these problems in the context of user-generated place labels. By using an accelerometer to detect whether a device is moving or stationary, the system can continuously and unobtrusively learn from all radio measurements during a stationary period, thus greatly increasing the number of available samples. Movement information also allows the system to improve the user experience by deferring labeling to a later, more suitable moment. Initial experiments with our system show considerable increases in data collected and improvements to inferred location likelihood, with negligible overhead reported by users.