A Comparative Study of Localization Methods in Indoor Environments

Authors:
Josefa Gomez;Abdelhamid Tayebi;Antonio Corte;Oscar Gutierrez;Jose Manuel Gomez;Francisco Saez De Adana
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain 28806;Computer Science Department, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain 28806;Computer Science Department, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain 28806 and Department of Automatic, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain 28806;Computer Science Department, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain 28806;Computer Science Department, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain 28806;Computer Science Department, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain 28806
Venue:
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Year:
2013

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Abstract

A comparative study, based on three different measurements (direction of ray arrival, time difference of arrival and received signal strength), to compute the unknown position of mobile stations in indoor environments is presented in this paper. The comparison is carried out considering the results of analyses in a real building in Madrid. To overcome the problems that arise in indoor areas due to the presence of non line of sight conditions, the fingerprinting technique is applied in each of the cases. Data for computations are provided by a simulation tool based on the uniform theory of diffraction and ray-tracing techniques. This information is stored in the fingerprinting database and contains information related to every mobile station, every reference node and every access point located inside the environment under analysis. Experimental results compare the mean error when localizing several mobile stations by using the three different approaches. The goal is to obtain high precision in the localization by means of alternative methods to the received signal strength classical measurement. These techniques will be useful in critical environments where high operational security requirement are demanded.