SmartLoc: push the limit of the inertial sensor based metropolitan localization using smartphone

Authors:
Cheng Bo;Xiang-Yang Li;Taeho Jung;Xufei Mao;Yue Tao;Lan Yao
Affiliations:
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA;Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA;Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA;Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Venue:
Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Mobile computing & networking
Year:
2013

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Abstract

We present SmartLoc, a localization system to estimate the location and the traveling distance by leveraging the lower-power inertial sensors embedded in smartphones as a supplementary to GPS. To minimize the negative impact of sensor noises, SmartLoc exploits the intermittent strong GPS signals and uses the linear regression to build a prediction model which is based on the trace estimated from inertial sensors and the one computed from the GPS. Furthermore, we utilize landmarks (e.g., bridge, traffic lights) detected automatically and special driving patterns (e.g., turning, uphill, and downhill) from inertial sensory data to improve the localization accuracy when the GPS signal is weak. Our evaluations of SmartLoc in the city demonstrates its technique viability and significant localization accuracy improvement compared with GPS and other approaches: the error is approximately 20m for 90% of time while the known mean error of GPS is 42.22m.