Towards an Indoor Location System Using RF Signal Strength in IEEE 802.11 Networks

  • Authors:
  • Adam Harder;Lanlan Song;Yu Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Auburn University;Auburn University;Auburn University

  • Venue:
  • ITCC '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume II - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Location is one of the most important contexts used in pervasive computing environments. GPS systems are intensely used to detect the location information; they mainly work in outdoor environment. Applications call for precise, easy-to-build, and easy-to-use in-door location systems. This paper presents our work to implement an indoor location determination system for Microsoft-Windows-based platforms using a pre-existing IEEE 802.11 wireless network.The location is determined from radio signal strength information collected from multiple base stations at different physical locations. Our experiments show a high accuracy rate of this approach.