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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,793 Views
20 Pages

24 May 2020

Radio frequency communication technology has not only greatly improved public network service, but also developed a new technological route for indoor navigation service. However, there is a gap between the precision and accuracy of indoor navigation...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,093 Views
17 Pages

30 July 2020

Received signal strength indicator (RSSI)-based positioning is suitable for large-scale applications due to its advantages of low cost and high accuracy. However, it suffers from low stability because RSSI is easily blocked and easily interfered with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,294 Views
16 Pages

Drone Controller Localization Based on RSSI Ratio

  • Yuhong Wang,
  • Yonghong Zeng,
  • Sumei Sun,
  • Peng Hui Tan,
  • Yugang Ma and
  • Ernest Kurniawan

29 May 2023

We proposed two methods for the localization of drone controllers based on received signal strength indicator (RSSI) ratios: the RSSI ratio fingerprint method and the model-based RSSI ratio algorithm. To evaluate the performance of our proposed algor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,924 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2025

Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) prediction is valuable for network planning and optimization as it helps determine the optimal placements of wireless access points and enables better coverage planning. It is also crucial for efficient hando...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,858 Views
15 Pages

Indoor Localization System Based on RSSI-APIT Algorithm

  • Xiaoyan Shen,
  • Boyang Xu and
  • Hongming Shen

5 December 2023

An indoor localization system based on the RSSI-APIT algorithm is designed in this study. Integrated RSSI (received signal strength indication) and non-ranging APIT (approximate perfect point-in-triangulation test) localization methods are fused with...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,647 Views
20 Pages

Research Progress of Wireless Positioning Methods Based on RSSI

  • Bohang Chen,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Lingfei Zhang,
  • Jiacheng Zhou,
  • Jinyu Fan and
  • Haiming Lan

Location-based services are now playing an integral role in the development of emerging industries, such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and smart cities. Although GPS, Beidou and other satellite positioning technologies are becomi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
235 Citations
17,491 Views
15 Pages

Indoor Positioning Algorithm Based on the Improved RSSI Distance Model

  • Guoquan Li,
  • Enxu Geng,
  • Zhouyang Ye,
  • Yongjun Xu,
  • Jinzhao Lin and
  • Yu Pang

27 August 2018

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) cannot achieve accurate positioning and navigation in the indoor environment. Therefore, efficient indoor positioning technology has become a very active research topic. Bluetooth beacon positioning is on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,457 Views
16 Pages

Combining RSSI and Accelerometer Features for Room-Level Localization

  • Athina Tsanousa,
  • Vasileios-Rafail Xefteris,
  • Georgios Meditskos,
  • Stefanos Vrochidis and
  • Ioannis Kompatsiaris

13 April 2021

The continuing advancements in technology have resulted in an explosion in the use of interconnected devices and sensors. Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems are used to provide remote solutions in different domains, like healthcare and security. A comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,313 Views
19 Pages

On-Line RSSI-Range Model Learning for Target Localization and Tracking

  • José Ramiro Martínez-de Dios,
  • Anibal Ollero,
  • Francisco José Fernández and
  • Carolina Regoli

The interactions of Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) with the environment are very difficult to be modeled, inducing significant errors in RSSI-range models and highly disturbing target localization and tracking methods. Some techniques adop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,396 Views
16 Pages

Unbalanced Hybrid AOA/RSSI Localization for Simplified Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Anh Tuyen Le,
  • Le Chung Tran,
  • Xiaojing Huang,
  • Christian Ritz,
  • Eryk Dutkiewicz,
  • Son Lam Phung,
  • Abdesselam Bouzerdoum and
  • Daniel Franklin

9 July 2020

Source positioning using hybrid angle-of-arrival (AOA) estimation and received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is attractive because no synchronization is required among unknown nodes and anchors. Conventionally, hybrid AOA/RSSI localization combine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,377 Views
21 Pages

Indoor localization algorithms based on the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have higher localization accuracy than other range-free methods. This paper considers indoor localization based on multilateratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
310 Views
19 Pages

RSSI-Based Localization of Smart Mattresses in Hospital Settings

  • Yeh-Liang Hsu,
  • Chun-Hung Yi,
  • Shu-Chiung Lee and
  • Kuei-Hua Yen

(1) Background: In hospitals, mattresses are often relocated for cleaning or patient transfer, leading to mismatches between actual and recorded bed locations. Manual updates are time-consuming and error-prone, requiring an automatic localization sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
14,853 Views
24 Pages

A Practice of BLE RSSI Measurement for Indoor Positioning

  • Ramiro Ramirez,
  • Chien-Yi Huang,
  • Che-An Liao,
  • Po-Ting Lin,
  • Hsin-Wei Lin and
  • Shu-Hao Liang

30 July 2021

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is one of the RF-based technologies that has been utilizing Received Signal Strength Indicators (RSSI) in indoor position location systems (IPS) for decades. Its recent signal stability and propagation distance improvement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,475 Views
23 Pages

21 April 2022

Numerous indoor positioning technologies and systems have been proposed to localize people and objects in large buildings. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth positioning systems using fingerprinting have gained popularity, due to the wide availability of existing i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
8,345 Views
15 Pages

Positioning using Wi-Fi received signal strength indication (RSSI) signals is an effective method for identifying the user positions in an indoor scenario. Wi-Fi RSSI signals in an autonomous system can be easily used for vehicle tracking in undergro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,445 Views
17 Pages

RSSI and Device Pose Fusion for Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Smartphone Localization Systems

  • Imran Moez Khan,
  • Andrew Thompson,
  • Akram Al-Hourani,
  • Kandeepan Sithamparanathan and
  • Wayne S. T. Rowe

Complementing RSSI measurements at anchors with onboard smartphone accelerometer measurements is a popular research direction to improve the accuracy of indoor localization systems. This can be performed at different levels; for example, many studies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,566 Views
14 Pages

6 December 2022

The widespread use of mobile devices has popularized the idea of indoor navigation. The Wi-Fi fingerprint method is emerging as an important alternative indoor positioning method for GPS usage difficulties. This study utilizes RSSI signals with three...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,862 Views
22 Pages

The received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of RF signals is a cost-effective solution for distance estimation, which makes it a practical choice for localization schemes in wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, RF propagation channels in most W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,840 Views
9 Pages

4 November 2016

Given that location information is the key to providing a variety of services in sustainable indoor computing environments, it is required to obtain accurate locations. Locations can be estimated by three distances from three fixed points. Therefore,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,857 Views
15 Pages

Recently, deep-learning-based indoor localisation systems have attracted attention owing to their higher performance compared with traditional indoor localization systems. However, to achieve satisfactory performance, the former systems require large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,001 Views
23 Pages

Wireless Technology Recognition Based on RSSI Distribution at Sub-Nyquist Sampling Rate for Constrained Devices

  • Wei Liu,
  • Merima Kulin,
  • Tarik Kazaz,
  • Adnan Shahid,
  • Ingrid Moerman and
  • Eli De Poorter

12 September 2017

Driven by the fast growth of wireless communication, the trend of sharing spectrum among heterogeneous technologies becomes increasingly dominant. Identifying concurrent technologies is an important step towards efficient spectrum sharing. However, d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,783 Views
23 Pages

Design and Implementation of an Indoor Localization System Based on RSSI in IEEE 802.11ax

  • Roberto Gaona Juárez,
  • Abel García-Barrientos,
  • Jesus Acosta-Elias,
  • Enrique Stevens-Navarro,
  • César G. Galván,
  • Alessio Palavicini and
  • Ernesto Monroy Cruz

28 February 2025

This article describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of an indoor localization system based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurements in wireless sensor networks. While the majority of the literature uses the IEEE 802.15...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,758 Views
19 Pages

30 April 2025

Traditional received signal strength indicator (RSSI)-based and angle of arrival (AoA)-based positioning methods are highly susceptible to multipath effects, signal attenuation, and noise interference in complex indoor environments, which significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,396 Views
26 Pages

17 January 2020

Indoor positioning techniques, owing to received signal strength indicator (RSSI)-based sensors, can provide useful trajectory-based services. These services include user movement analytics, next-to-visit recommendation, and hotspot detection. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,434 Views
15 Pages

Outdoor Localization Using BLE RSSI and Accessible Pedestrian Signals for the Visually Impaired at Intersections

  • Kiyoung Shin,
  • Ryan McConville,
  • Oussama Metatla,
  • Minhye Chang,
  • Chiyoung Han,
  • Junhaeng Lee and
  • Anne Roudaut

4 January 2022

One of the major challenges for blind and visually impaired (BVI) people is traveling safely to cross intersections on foot. Many countries are now generating audible signals at crossings for visually impaired people to help with this problem. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,165 Views
25 Pages

23 August 2013

Acquisition of patient kinematics in different environments plays an important role in the detection of risk situations such as fall detection in elderly patients, in rehabilitation of patients with injuries, and in the design of treatment plans for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,957 Views
19 Pages

Indoor positioning systems have become increasingly important due to the limitations of GPS in indoor environments, such as non-line-of-sight conditions and weak signal strength. Among the various indoor positioning techniques, fingerprinting-based a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,809 Views
30 Pages

Indoor Large-Scale MIMO-Based RSSI Localization with Low-Complexity RFID Infrastructure

  • Mohammed El-Absi,
  • Feng Zheng,
  • Ashraf Abuelhaija,
  • Ali Al-haj Abbas,
  • Klaus Solbach and
  • Thomas Kaiser

15 July 2020

Indoor localization based on unsynchronized, low-complexity, passive radio frequency identification (RFID) using the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) has a wide potential for a variety of internet of things (IoTs) applications due to their e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,466 Views
15 Pages

Exploiting the RSSI Long-Term Data of a WSN for the RF Channel Modeling in EPS Environments

  • Roddy A. R. Antayhua,
  • Maicon D. Pereira,
  • Nestor C. Fernandes and
  • Fernando Rangel de Sousa

29 May 2020

In this paper, we propose a methodology to use the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) available by the protocol stack of an installed Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) at an electric-power-system environment (EPS) as a tool for obtaining the chara...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,617 Views
26 Pages

Evaluating Communication Performance in Rotating Electrical Machines Using RSSI Measurements and Artificial Intelligence

  • Sonia Ben Brahim,
  • Samia Dardouri,
  • Hanen Lajnef,
  • Amel Ben Slimane,
  • Ridha Bouallegue and
  • Tan-Hoa Vuong

23 December 2024

This paper introduces a novel methodology for evaluating communication performance in rotating electric machines using Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) measurements coupled with artificial intelligence. The proposed approach focuses on asse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,831 Views
23 Pages

7 February 2023

Received signal strength indicator (RSSI)-based fingerprinting is a widely used technique for indoor localization, but these methods suffer from high error rates due to various reflections, interferences, and noises. The use of disturbances in the ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,659 Views
41 Pages

Cost-Efficient RSSI-Based Indoor Proximity Positioning, for Large/Complex Museum Exhibition Spaces

  • Panos I. Philippopoulos,
  • Kostas N. Koutrakis,
  • Efstathios D. Tsafaras,
  • Evangelia G. Papadopoulou,
  • Dimitrios Sigalas,
  • Nikolaos D. Tselikas,
  • Stefanos Ougiaroglou and
  • Costas Vassilakis

25 April 2025

RSSI-based proximity positioning is a well-established technique for indoor localization, featuring simplicity and cost-effectiveness, requiring low-price and off-the-shelf hardware. However, it suffers from low accuracy (in NLOS traffic), noise, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,987 Views
18 Pages

13 June 2023

In indoor environments, estimating localization using a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is difficult because of the noise from signals reflected and refracted by walls and obstacles. In this study, we used a denoising autoencoder (DAE) to r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,165 Views
19 Pages

15 June 2022

Although fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication can ] support well a high data rate of transmission, issues such as base station (BS) failure and poor BS signals may cause serious interruption problems. This paper studies the user-BS selection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
663 Views
19 Pages

26 September 2025

Since GPS (Global Positioning System) cannot meet accuracy requirements indoors, indoor Location-Based Services (LBSs) have become increasingly important. BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) offers cost and accuracy advantages. Typically, the position fingerp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,749 Views
16 Pages

25 March 2023

Although numerous schemes, including learning-based approaches, have attempted to determine a solution for location recognition in indoor environments using RSSI, they suffer from the severe instability of RSSI. Compared with the solutions obtained b...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
663 Views
31 Pages

25 November 2025

Among indoor positioning technologies, Wi-Fi fingerprinting using the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is the most convenient and cost-effective method for indoor positioning. Instability and interference in wireless signal transmission caus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,152 Views
25 Pages

Accuracy Analysis of the Indoor Location System Based on Bluetooth Low-Energy RSSI Measurements

  • Dariusz Janczak,
  • Wojciech Walendziuk,
  • Maciej Sadowski,
  • Andrzej Zankiewicz,
  • Krzysztof Konopko and
  • Adam Idzkowski

23 November 2022

Systems for determining the position of objects inside buildings have a wide range of applications, such as the surveillance of people’s movements in hospitals, and of goods or mobile robots in warehouse spaces or production halls. Hence, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,653 Views
10 Pages

A Machine Learning Approach to Improve Ranging Accuracy with AoA and RSSI

  • Tingwei Zhang,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Paris Kalathas,
  • Guangxin Wang and
  • Huaping Liu

25 August 2022

Ranging accuracy is a critical parameter in time-based indoor positioning systems. Indoor environments often have complex structures, which make centimeter-level-accurate ranging a challenging task. This study proposes a new distance measurement meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,363 Views
13 Pages

Radio Wave Attenuation Measurement System Based on RSSI for Precision Agriculture: Application to Tomato Greenhouses

  • Dora Cama-Pinto,
  • Juan Antonio Holgado-Terriza,
  • Miguel Damas-Hermoso,
  • Francisco Gómez-Mula and
  • Alejandro Cama-Pinto

Precision agriculture and smart farming are concepts that are acquiring an important boom due to their relationship with the Internet of Things (IoT), especially in the search for new mechanisms and procedures that allow for sustainable and efficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,605 Views
14 Pages

24 December 2019

Information about an approaching vehicle is helpful for pedestrians to avoid traffic accidents while most of the past studies related to collision avoidance systems have focused on alerting drivers and controlling vehicles. This paper proposes a tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,098 Views
15 Pages

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks with RSSI-Based Advanced Efficiency-Driven Localization and Unprecedented Accuracy

  • Kaveripakam Sathish,
  • Ravikumar Chinthaginjala,
  • Wooseong Kim,
  • Anbazhagan Rajesh,
  • Juan M. Corchado and
  • Mohamed Abbas

5 August 2023

Deep-sea object localization by underwater acoustic sensor networks is a current research topic in the field of underwater communication and navigation. To find a deep-sea object using underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs), the sensors must fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,133 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2022

In this paper, human step length was estimated based on wireless channel properties and the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) method. Path loss between two ankles of the person under test was converted from the RSSI, which was measured using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
373 Views
25 Pages

A Device-Free Human Detection System Using 2.4 GHz Wireless Networks and an RSSI Distribution-Based Method with Autonomous Threshold

  • Charernkiat Pochaiya,
  • Apidet Booranawong,
  • Dujdow Buranapanichkit,
  • Kriangkrai Tassanavipas and
  • Hiroshi Saito

A device-free human detection system based on a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) monitors and analyzes the change of RSSI signals to detect human movements in a wireless network. This study proposes and implements a real-time, device-free hu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Citations
6,441 Views
14 Pages

8 May 2018

With the increasing realization of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and rapid proliferation of wireless sensor networks (WSN), estimating the location of wireless sensor nodes is emerging as an important issue. Traditional ranging based localization algo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,443 Views
45 Pages

RSSI Fingerprint-Based Indoor Localization Solutions Using Machine Learning Algorithms: A Comprehensive Review

  • Batyrbek Zholamanov,
  • Ahmet Saymbetov,
  • Madiyar Nurgaliyev,
  • Askhat Bolatbek,
  • Gulbakhar Dosymbetova,
  • Nurzhigit Kuttybay,
  • Sayat Orynbassar,
  • Ainur Kapparova,
  • Nursultan Koshkarbay and
  • Ömer Faruk Beyca

17 September 2025

With the development of technologies and the growing need for accurate positioning inside buildings, the localization method based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) fingerprinting is becoming increasingly popular. Its popularity is explain...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
16,073 Views
27 Pages

RSSI and Machine Learning-Based Indoor Localization Systems for Smart Cities

  • R. M. M. R. Rathnayake,
  • Madduma Wellalage Pasan Maduranga,
  • Valmik Tilwari and
  • Maheshi B. Dissanayake

28 May 2023

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning (ML) has significantly increased the demand for Location-Based Services (LBS) in today’s world. Among these services, indoor positioning and navigation have emerged as cru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
9,862 Views
39 Pages

29 March 2017

Assuming a reliable and responsive spatial contextualization service is a must-have in IEEE 802.11 and 802.15.4 wireless networks, a suitable approach consists of the implementation of localization capabilities, as an additional application layer to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
3,815 Views
25 Pages

1 November 2019

This study presents a new technique to improve the indoor localization of a mobile node by utilizing a Zigbee-based received-signal-strength indicator (RSSI) and odometry. As both methods suffer from their own limitations, this work contributes to a...

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