Title
An indoor location estimation using BLE beacons considering movable obstructions
Abstract
Recently, research of indoor location estimation has been attracting attention for tracking behaviors of human in a store. In the case of the store, indoor location estimation adopts absolute location estimation techniques using RSSI of WiFi or BLE signals from beacons installed in the store. As the RSSI has been influenced by the signal reflection, the diffraction, the shelter and others, an estimated values can cause errors during the process of converting the RSSI values into distances. In this paper, we propose dynamical and optimal beacon selection method to minimize affections of wireless signal shielding by the static and movable obstructions. As the result of a simulation, we found that the average of the location estimation errors using our proposed method is reduced by 1.2m against a method only considering static obstructions and our method keeps a constant error regardless of the number of selected BLE beacons.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.23919/ICMU.2017.8330082
2017 Tenth International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Network (ICMU)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Location estimation,BLE,movable obstruction,beacon
Beacon,Signal reflection,Wireless,Electromagnetic shielding,Computer science,Real-time computing,Wireless signal,Wireless sensor network,Trajectory
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-0594-3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hisashi Hoshi100.34
Hiroki Ishizuka2157.25
Arei Kobayashi3155.45
Atsunori Minamikawa400.34