TY - GEN
T1 - Point of interest awareness using indoor positioning with a mobile phone
AU - Pombinho, Paulo
AU - Afonso, Ana Paula
AU - Carmo, Maria Beatriz
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Although location based applications have been gaining popularity, most positioning devices do not work when in an indoor environment, hindering the development of both mixed and indoor location based applications. In this paper we present a point of interest aware application that shows information to the user that is dependent on his indoor location. To be able to detect the user's position, we propose a technique, based on the detection of footsteps, and the direction in which they were taken, to be able to calculate the position of the user inside a building. To improve the accuracy of the system, we use information about the buildings floor plan to create a graph that can be used to correct invalid movements.
AB - Although location based applications have been gaining popularity, most positioning devices do not work when in an indoor environment, hindering the development of both mixed and indoor location based applications. In this paper we present a point of interest aware application that shows information to the user that is dependent on his indoor location. To be able to detect the user's position, we propose a technique, based on the detection of footsteps, and the direction in which they were taken, to be able to calculate the position of the user inside a building. To improve the accuracy of the system, we use information about the buildings floor plan to create a graph that can be used to correct invalid movements.
KW - Indoor positioning
KW - Mixed environments
KW - Mobile devices
KW - Point of interest
KW - Step detection algorithm
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052497953
SN - 9789898425485
T3 - PECCS 2011 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems
SP - 5
EP - 14
BT - PECCS 2011 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems
T2 - 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, PECCS 2011
Y2 - 5 March 2011 through 7 March 2011
ER -