Indoor Localization: Technologies and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Many technologies are under development for Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation. A great variety of promising technical solutions has been proposed, which are suitable for various application areas and use cases, e.g., IoT, home, public areas, or industrial environments, but there is no designated indoor positioning system that meets expectations as GNSS outdoors. These technologies operate using radio waves, acoustic, optical, infrared or radar signals, signal strength, magnetic sensors, and inertial sensors, among others.

This Special Issue encourages authors from academia and industry to submit new research results regarding technological innovations and novel applications for the indoor positioning and navigation of sensor networks. We also welcome comprehensive reviews on well-established and relatively mature technologies, demonstrating the technical performance, potentials, and limitations of these technical solutions.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

• Localization technologies: TOF, TDOA, AoA, ADoA, RSSI, fingerprinting, dead reckoning;
• Sensors and sensory systems: acoustic, RF, UWB, optical, magnetic, IMU;
• Sensor fusion, filtering, and error mitigation;
• Hybrid positioning;
• Signal processing for indoor localization;
• Machine learning in indoor localization;
• Applications and localization services (ambient assisted living, robotics, etc.);
• Unconventional solutions;
• News trends on indoor localization.

Prof. Dr. Raúl Montoliu
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.