M-SHOW: A SYSTEM FOR ACCURATE POSITION ESTIMATION IN MULTI-FLOOR BUILDINGS

Wu Ke, Zheng Zhong, He Liang, Gu Junzhong

2006

Abstract

This paper presents M-Show, a Wireless LAN based system for locating users inside multi-floor buildings. It makes improvements in the sampling, processing and storing of empirical signals to previous studies, and builds a Fuzzy Empirical Signal Model that gives more credible description of signal distribution. By dividing the map into different sized Intelligent Areas (iAreas), M-Show is able to achieve alterable positioning granularity within the same map. It also unprecedented adopts AP Close Range Pre-Locating strategy to quickly locate the users inside a certain small scope around an AP. In addition, since statistical calculation methods are inefficient in distinguishing vertically overlapping positions on different floors, which is not tackled in previous locating systems, we introduce the Fluoroscopy to rectify the locating result of probability calculation. M-Show is deployed in Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, and experimental results show that with reduced average position query time and lower computation cost, M-Show achieves a high locating accuracy of 93% probability within 3 feet around the user’s actual position.

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Ke W., Zhong Z., Liang H. and Junzhong G. (2006). M-SHOW: A SYSTEM FOR ACCURATE POSITION ESTIMATION IN MULTI-FLOOR BUILDINGS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-65-8, pages 290-297. DOI: 10.5220/0002089802900297


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@conference{winsys06,
author={Wu Ke and Zheng Zhong and He Liang and Gu Junzhong},
title={M-SHOW: A SYSTEM FOR ACCURATE POSITION ESTIMATION IN MULTI-FLOOR BUILDINGS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={290-297},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002089802900297},
isbn={978-972-8865-65-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2006)
TI - M-SHOW: A SYSTEM FOR ACCURATE POSITION ESTIMATION IN MULTI-FLOOR BUILDINGS
SN - 978-972-8865-65-8
AU - Ke W.
AU - Zhong Z.
AU - Liang H.
AU - Junzhong G.
PY - 2006
SP - 290
EP - 297
DO - 10.5220/0002089802900297