Indoor Positioning Technologies for Internet-of-Things: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2026 | Viewed by 9
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Dear Colleagues,
Internet-of-Things paradigms have so far pushed the concept of interconnectivity between users and their underlying environment. The spatial density of connected devices has significantly increased; however, to avoid clashes between communication channels, scenario awareness has become of primary importance. The widening of link bandwidths, as required by increased communication data rates, has led to an increase in operative frequencies. As a result, the spatial coverage of transmitters has dramatically decreased, and dynamic beam steering for high-directional arrays has become mandatory. New communication technologies, such as 5G, help to address these new challenges by varying the network topology, i.e., introducing concepts such as picocells and adaptive beam antenna arrays, which are reliant on position awareness for optimal network routing.
In addition to addressing technical needs, high data rates enable users and network-connected nodes to continuously exchange large amounts of information, necessitating data contextualization to organize the flow of collected data.
Considering overall networking, indoor positioning has become an important service for both network protocol and user application layers. Hence, the easy integration of positioning functionality into pre-existing protocol stacks and hardware is a strict requirement. Possible application scenarios span from augmented reality to home automation, as well as robotics, advanced data management, and healthcare.
Every generic device connected to the network should be able to achieve position awareness; hence, minimizing the need for specific devices is mandatory. Furthermore, the positioning service should be implemented without demanding configuration and calibration phases, as this would place significant limitations on application portability.
Following the success of the first edition of our Special Issue entitled “Indoor Positioning Technologies for Internet-of-Things”, this second edition aims to collect outstanding and innovative research works proposing plug-n-play and calibration-free indoor positioning technologies aimed at providing users with indoor positioning functionality as a transparent and user-friendly service with complete integration into user devices.
Dr. Marco Passafiume
Dr. Stefano Maddio
Dr. Giovanni Collodi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- indoor positioning
- user experience
- RSSI
- wireless sensor networks
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth
- home automation
- tracking
- robotics
- multimedia
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