presentation_A hybrid BLE and Wi-Fi localization system for the creation of study groups in smart libraries

Paper Summary

Paper Name A hybrid BLE and Wi-Fi localization system for the creation of study groups in smart libraries
Published in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
Authors Kiril Antevski; Alessandro E.C. Redondi; Razvan Pitic
Paper Overview This paper proposes a hybrid localization system in smart libraries. The system contains:

  • The hybrid BLE and Wi-Fi network infrastructure
  • A mobile client application
  • The back-end server which is implemented using IBM Node-RED
  • The frontend graphical interface
Experiment results

Methodology

  • Bluetooth-only localization : Leveraging the presence of N BLE beacon devices deployed in the library
  • Wi-Fi fingerprint localization : Using three methods to estimate location: (1)k-nearest neighbors (2)k-means clustering (3)PCA-based fingerprinting
  • Hybrid Bluetooth and Wi-Fi localization : Calculating error rate for BLE and Wi-Fi in some particular positions.If the result of the estimation is different in these two system, we will chose the one of them which the error rate is lower
  • Algorithms for hybrid system : Using many methods for this system.The best method which has the highest accuracy is PCA k-nn hybrid