Adapting Convolutional Neural Networks for Indoor Localization with Smart Mobile Devices

ABSTRACT

Indoor localization is emerging as an important application domain for enhanced navigation (or tracking) of people and assets in indoor locales such as buildings, malls, and underground mines. Most indoor localization solutions proposed in prior work do not deliver good accuracy without expensive infrastructure (and even then, the results may lack consistency). Ambient wireless received signal strength indication (RSSI) based fingerprinting using smart mobile devices is a low-cost approach to the problem. However, creating an accurate 'fingerprinting-only' solution remains a challenge. This paper presents a novel approach to transform Wi-Fi signatures into images, to create a scalable fingerprinting framework based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Our proposed CNN based indoor localization framework (CNN-LOC) is validated across several indoor environments and shows improvements over the best known prior works, with an average localization error of < 2 meters.

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