Evolution of Indoor Positioning Technologies: A Survey

Autor: Juan-Pablo García-Vázquez, James Fangmeyer, Cesar Vargas-Rosales, Carlos E. Galván-Tejada, David Munoz-Rodriguez, Ramón F. Brena
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Sensors, Vol 2017 (2017)
Journal of Sensors
ISSN: 1687-7268
Popis: Indoor positioning systems (IPS) use sensors and communication technologies to locate objects in indoor environments. IPS are attracting scientific and enterprise interest because there is a big market opportunity for applying these technologies. There are many previous surveys on indoor positioning systems; however, most of them lack a solid classification scheme that would structurally map a wide field such as IPS, or omit several key technologies or have a limited perspective; finally, surveys rapidly become obsolete in an area as dynamic as IPS. The goal of this paper is to provide a technological perspective of indoor positioning systems, comprising a wide range of technologies and approaches. Further, we classify the existing approaches in a structure in order to guide the review and discussion of the different approaches. Finally, we present a comparison of indoor positioning approaches and present the evolution and trends that we foresee. © 2017 Ramon F. Brena et al.
Databáze: OpenAIRE