KEYWORDS: Received signal strength, Databases, Global Positioning System, Java, Cell phones, Distance measurement, Satellites, Receivers, Buildings, Mobile devices
Global Positioning System (GPS) products help to navigate while driving, hiking, boating, and flying. GPS uses a
combination of orbiting satellites to determine position coordinates. This works great in most outdoor areas, but the
satellite signals are not strong enough to penetrate inside most indoor environments. As a result, a new strain of indoor
positioning technologies that make use of 802.11 wireless LANs (WLAN) is beginning to appear on the market. In
WLAN positioning the system either monitors propagation delays between wireless access points and wireless device
users to apply trilateration techniques or it maintains the database of location-specific signal fingerprints which is used to
identify the most likely match of incoming signal data with those preliminary surveyed and saved in the database. In this
paper we investigate the issue of deploying WLAN positioning software on mobile platforms with typically limited
computational resources. We suggest a novel received signal strength rank order based location estimation system to
reduce computational loads with a robust performance. The proposed system performance is compared to conventional
approaches.
KEYWORDS: Databases, Global Positioning System, Data modeling, Cell phones, Received signal strength, Buildings, Detection and tracking algorithms, Java, Standards development, Time metrology
Indoor Positioning Systems using WLANs have become very popular in recent years. These systems are
spawning a new class of applications like activity recognition, surveillance, context aware computing and location based
services. While Global Positioning System (GPS) is the natural choice for providing navigation in outdoor environment,
the urban environment places a significant challenge for positioning using GPS. The GPS signals can be significantly
attenuated, and often completely blocked, inside buildings or in urban canyons. As the performance of GPS in indoor
environments is not satisfactory, indoor positioning systems based on location fingerprinting of WLANs is being
suggested as a viable alternative. The Indoor WLAN Positioning Systems suffer from several phenomena. One of the
problems is the continual availability of access points, which directly affects the positioning accuracy. Integrity
monitoring of WLAN localization, which computes WLAN positioning with different sets of access points is proposed
as a solution for this problem. The positioning accuracy will be adequate for the sets which do not contain faulty or the
access points which are offline, while the sets with such access points will fail and they will report random and
inaccurate results. The proposed method identifies proper sets and identifies the rogue access points using prediction
trajectories. The combination of prediction and correct access point set selection provides a more accurate result. This
paper discusses about integrity monitoring method for WLAN devices and followed by how it monitors and developing
the application on mobile platforms.
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