A GPS sensing strategy for accurate and energy-efficient outdoor-to-indoor handover in seamless localization systems

Authors:
Yungeun Kim;Songhee Lee;Seokjoon Lee;Hojung Cha
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, Yonsei, Korea;Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, Yonsei, Korea;Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, Yonsei, Korea;Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, Yonsei, Korea
Venue:
Mobile Information Systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Indoor localization systems typically locate users on their own local coordinates, while outdoor localization systems use global coordinates. To achieve seamless localization from outdoors to indoors, a handover technique that accurately provides a starting position to the indoor localization system is needed. However, existing schemes assume that a starting position is known a priori or uses a naïve approach to consider the last location obtained from GPS as the handover point. In this paper, we propose an accurate handover scheme that monitors the signal-to-noise ratio SNR of the effective GPS satellites that are selected according to their altitude. We also propose an energy-efficient handover mechanism that reduces the GPS sampling interval gradually. Accuracy and energy efficiency are experimentally validated with the GPS logs obtained in real life.