Paper Info
Title
Design and Analysis of a Bluetooth-Based Indoor Localization System
Abstract
The emerging context-aware applications relying on the wireless networking, require the availability of network services that provide even simple notions of context as position and identity. In the last few years several localization and tracking systems for indoor environment have been proposed. However, these systems are often very expensive since they require the installation of dedicated infrastructures of sensors based on radio, ultrasound or infrared technologies, to determine the user position. This paper aims to propose and analyze a novel indoor localization and tracking system based on the Bluetooth technology. This is a short-range, low complexity and low cost wireless technology that supports explicit device discovery services. The proposed localization system fully integrates these device discovery procedures into the infrastructure-based network of Bluetooth access points that provides the wireless connectivity inside a building. This design approach guarantees a cost-effective solution for the positioning service implementation. In this paper we have extensively investigated through simulative analysis the performances of the proposed localization system, showing that it has a negligible overhead, still providing a timely update of user location.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-39867-7_66
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
local system,ultrasound,tracking system,infrared
Network service,Wireless network,Wireless,Computer science,Network architecture,Tracking system,Telecommunications service,Access network,Bluetooth,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2775
0302-9743
35
PageRank 
References 
Authors
3.25
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raffaele Bruno1123290.09
Franca Delmastro221119.88