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  • Computer Science
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Wireless Networking

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  • Traditional radio-map-based localization is resource-intensive due to extensive offline fingerprint sampling.
  • High costs hinder the widespread adoption and maintenance of indoor localization systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an automatic and cost-effective algorithm for radio-map construction using crowdsourcing.
  • To reduce the human and material resources required for establishing indoor localization databases.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizes crowd-sourced smartphone sensor data from users walking indoors.
  • Identifies indoor anchors (doors) using sensor variation characteristics for reference positions.
  • Employs the AP-Cluster method to cluster fingerprints and link them to physical locations for radio-map generation.

Main Results:

  • Successfully generated accurate radio maps with significantly reduced sampling costs.
  • Demonstrated that the proposed algorithm guarantees localization accuracy.
  • Eliminated the need for explicit user participation in data collection.

Conclusions:

  • The crowdsourcing-based algorithm offers an efficient solution for radio-map construction.
  • This method effectively addresses the resource-consumption problem in establishing fingerprint databases.
  • Enables more scalable and sustainable indoor localization systems.