The definition of efficient and accurate health processes in hospitals is crucial for ensuring an adequate quality of service. Knowing and improving the behavior of the surgical processes in a hospital can improve the number of patients that can be o...
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Due to the large number of elderly people with physical and cognitive issues, there is a strong need to provide indoor location systems that help caregivers monitor as many people as possible and with the best quality possible. In this paper, a fuzzy...
In this paper, a quasi-Yagi antenna for an indoor location tracking system is proposed. The performance of the proposed antenna was verified by testing it using an indoor location tracking system. To improve the bandwidth and gain, two parasitic dire...
Nowadays, several wireless location systems have been developed in the research world. The goal of these systems has always been to find the greatest accuracy as possible. However, if every node takes data from the environment, we can gather a lot of...
In order to provide the seamless navigation and positioning services for indoor environments, an indoor location based service (LBS) test bed is developed to integrate the indoor positioning system and the indoor three-dimensional (3D) geographic inf...
In this research, a new Map/INS/Wi-Fi integrated system for indoor location-based service (LBS) applications based on a cascaded Particle/Kalman filter framework structure is proposed. Two-dimension indoor map information, together with measurements...
Photogrammetric reconstruction from indoor imagery requires either labor-intensive ground control points (GCPs) or positioning sensor integration. While global navigation satellite system technology revolutionized aerial photogrammetry by enabling di...
The indoor location-based control system estimates the indoor position of a user to provide the service he/she requires. The major elements involved in the system are the localization server, service-provision client, user application positioning tec...
To enhance user experiences of reaching destinations in large, complex buildings, we have developed a indoor navigation system using Unity and a smartphone called INSUS. It can reset the user location using a quick response (QR) code to reduce the lo...
As smartphone built-in sensors, wireless technologies, and processor computing power become more advanced and global positioning system (GPS)-based positioning technologies are improving, location-based services (LBS) have become a part of our daily...
Indoor location systems, especially those using wireless sensor networks, are used in many application areas. While the need for these systems is widely proven, there is a clear lack of accuracy. Many of the implemented applications have high errors...
High-precision indoor positioning technology is regarded as one of the core components of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Over the past decades, society has observed a burgeoning demand for indoor location-base...
Currently, the process of tracking moving objects and determining their indoor location is considered to be one of the most attractive applications that have begun to see widespread use, especially after the adoption of this technology in some smartp...
Technologies and techniques of location and navigation are advancing, allowing greater precision in locating people in complex and challenging conditions. These advances have attracted growing interest from the scientific community in using indoor po...
With the widespread adoption of smartphones and wearable devices, localization systems have become increasingly important in modern society. While Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is widely accepted as a standard outdoors, accurately determ...
As the proportion and importance of the indoor spaces in daily life are gradually increasing, spatial information and personal location information become more important in indoor spaces. In order to apply indoor positioning technologies in any place...
A complete contextual marketing platform including an indoor positioning system (IPS) for smartphones is proposed and evaluated to later be deployed in large infrastructures, such as malls. To this end, we design and implement a novel methodology bas...
The increasing use of mobile devices in indoor spaces brings challenges to location methods. This work presents a hybrid intelligent method based on data mining and Type-2 fuzzy logic to locate mobile devices in an indoor space by zones using Wi-Fi s...
The increased potential and effectiveness of Real-time Locating Systems (RTLSs) substantially influence their application spectrum. They are widely used, inter alia, in the industrial sector, healthcare, home care, and in logistic and security applic...
The field of indoor localization is fast developing and has important ramifications for a number of areas, such as smart infrastructure development, healthcare settings, industrial automation, and military operations. Advances in a range of technolog...
Real-time Locating Systems (RTLSs) have the ability to precisely locate the position of things and people in real time. They are needed for security and emergency applications, but also for healthcare and home care appliances. The research aims for d...
WIFI base stations have full indoor coverage, and the inertial navigation system (INS) is independent and autonomous, with high short-term positioning accuracy. However, errors accumulate over time, and an INS/WIFI combination has become the mainstre...
In today’s competitive landscape, manufacturing companies must embrace digital transformation. This study asserts that integrating Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for the deployment of real-time location systems (RTLS) is crucial for bett...
The Internet of Things (IoT) provides technical solutions for monitoring assets in facility layouts, and this is further strengthened by the development of sophisticated software tools for intralogistics operations. The present research provides a ta...
In this work we performed a comparison between two different approaches to track a person in indoor environments using a locating system based on BLE technology with a smartphone and a smartwatch as monitoring devices. To do so, we provide the system...
Home monitoring and remote care systems aim to ultimately provide independent living care scenarios through non-intrusive, privacy-protecting means. Their main aim is to provide care through appreciating normal habits, remotely recognizing changes an...
With the development of indoor location-based services (ILBS), the dual foot-mounted inertial navigation system (DF-INS) has been extensively used in many fields involving monitoring and direction-finding. It is a widespread ILBS implementation with...
As the demand for context-aware services in smart environments continues to rise, Indoor Positioning Systems (IPSs) have evolved from auxiliary technologies into indispensable components of mission-critical infrastructure. This paper presents a compr...
In intelligent environments one of the most relevant information that can be gathered about users is their location. Their position can be easily captured without the need for a large infrastructure through devices such as smartphones or smartwatches...
In the case of a single scene feature, the positioning of an indoor service robot takes a long time, and localization errors are likely to occur. A new method for a hybrid indoor localization system according to multi-sensor fusion is proposed to sol...
This article presents SmartRoutes, (version 1) a sensory navigation system designed for the localization and guidance of individuals with cognitive disabilities in both indoor and outdoor environments. The platform facilitates route generation in bot...
To solve the problem of reverse car searching in intelligent multi-story garages or parking lots, the reverse car searching method based on the intelligent garage of the PC client and mobile client APP was studied, and the interface design and functi...
Driven by the latest advancements in wireless technology, location-based services have attracted the interest of computing and telecommunication industries, as well as academia, to launch fast and accurate localization systems. The aim of this work i...
This paper presents LocSpeck, a collaborative and distributed indoor positioning system for dynamic nodes connected using an ad-hoc network, based on inter-node relative range measurements and Wi-Fi fingerprinting. The proposed system operates using...
Retailers need accurate movement pattern analysis of human-tracking data to maximize the space performance of their stores and to improve the sustainability of their business. However, researchers struggle to precisely measure customers’ moveme...
The powerful combination of lean principles and digital technologies accelerates waste identification and mitigation faster than traditional lean methods. The new digital lean (also referred to as Lean 4.0) solutions incorporate sensors and digital e...
Indoor location-based services (iLBS) are extremely dynamic and changeable, and include numerous resources and mobile devices. In particular, the network infrastructure requires support for high scalability in the indoor environment, and various reso...
Nowadays society is demanding more and more smart healthcare services that allow monitoring patient status in a non-invasive way, anywhere and anytime. Thus, healthcare applications are currently facing important challenges guided by the u-health (ub...
The article presents tests on the possibility of using ultrasonic transducers for accurate distance measurement in hard coal mines. In order to check the impact of selected disturbing factors on the measurement results, test stands were built, and th...
Monitoring and tracking people at home usually requires high cost hardware installations, which implies they are not affordable in many situations. This study/paper proposes a monitoring and tracking system for people with medical problems. A virtual...
In this paper, we propose a proximity-based adaptive positioning algorithm to address the challenge of positioning errors in indoor localization based on RSSI (received signal strength indicator). When positioning by trilateration, if a receiver is c...
Smart mobile distributed systems (SMDSs) oriented to managing emergency cases (ECs) have become a helpful support tool in case of earthquakes at government and higher education institutions (GHEIs). This fact has motivated various works to propose SM...
This work proposes an adaptive recommendation mechanism for smart parking that takes advantage of the popularity of smartphones and the rise of the Internet of Things. The proposal includes a centralized system to forecast available indoor parking sp...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) has become a key technology in the logistics and management industry, thanks to distinctive features such as the low cost of RFID tags, and the easiness of the RFID tags’ deployment and integration within t...
Understanding human behavior can assist in the adoption of satisfactory health interventions and improved care. One of the main problems relies on the definition of human behaviors, as human activities depend on multiple variables and are of dynamic...
Determining the location of objects, for example roadheader in a hard coal mine, is a task that should be automated in the conditions of state-of-the-art mining. Current solutions do not meet the user’s expectations due to the lack of the possibility...
Research and development in Collaborative Indoor Positioning Systems (CIPSs) is growing steadily due to their potential to improve on the performance of their non-collaborative counterparts. In contrast to the outdoors scenario, where Global Navigati...
A wide variety of business areas organize their work based on the location of their employees because only by taking these locations into account, they can schedule activities properly. However, in a large number of cases, the requirement of immediac...
The demand for location-based services (LBS) in large indoor spaces, such as airports, shopping malls, museums and libraries, has been increasing in recent years. However, there is still no fully applicable solution for indoor positioning and navigat...
Indoor positioning has become an attractive research topic because of the drawbacks of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), which cannot detect accurate locations within indoor areas. Radio-based positioning technologies are one major categ...
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