Sensors and Techniques for Indoor Positioning and Localization: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 407
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Interests: indoor and short-range positioning; statistical signal processing; battery characterization
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Dear Colleagues,
Accurate indoor positioning is an interesting topic whose applications have impacts on various fields, which, depending on the targeted accuracy, can include line traceability, telemanipulation, telemedicine, and drone control. By overcoming the limitations of outdoor GNSS, indoor positioning techniques permit seamless indoor/outdoor positioning and can be a strong enabler for IoT and Industry 4.0 applications. As such, various approaches and methods have been proposed in the literature, with no definite solution being competitive for most conceivable scenarios. At the measurement level, various quantities can be measured, including inertial readings, ultrasound waves, static or AC magnetic fields, radiofrequency EM waves, and image or video recordings. These measurements can be combined using various approaches, such as fingerprinting, sensor fusion between multiple measurements, and, more recently, artificial intelligence. Additional degrees of freedom can be exploited at the system design level, where specific infrastructure can be deployed, based either on specific proprietary technology or on off-the-shelf devices, such as ultrawide-band (UWB) transceivers. Depending on the targeted accuracy and budget, additional tradeoffs can be realized by using pre-existing RF infrastructures, such as WiFi or Bluetooth networks. To this end, new opportunities are offered by modern consumer devices such as tablets and smartphones, equipped with embedded video cameras, multiple sensors, wireless networking capabilities, and powerful processors. The use of such standardized technologies provides a well-established infrastructure for the implementation of distributed systems, at the price of introducing potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Hence, this Special Issue welcomes innovative contributions, advancing the state of the art in indoor or short-range positioning with respect to sensors, measurements, estimation techniques, system architectures, devices, security, and applications.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Moschitta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- indoor positioning
- tracking
- sensors
- smart sensors
- algorithms
- measurement
- accuracy
- estimation
- artificial intelligence
- Internet of Things
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