Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services

Indoor positioning is one of the biggest challenges of many Location Based Services (LBS), especially if the target users are pedestrians, who spend most of their time in roofed areas such as houses, offices, airports, shopping centres and in general indoors. Providing pedestrians with accurate, rel...

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Main Authors: Basiri, Anahid, Peltola, Pekka, Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro, Lohan, Elena Simona, Moore, Terry, Hill, Chris
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Published: 2015
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author Basiri, Anahid
Peltola, Pekka
Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro
Lohan, Elena Simona
Moore, Terry
Hill, Chris
author_facet Basiri, Anahid
Peltola, Pekka
Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro
Lohan, Elena Simona
Moore, Terry
Hill, Chris
author_sort Basiri, Anahid
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description Indoor positioning is one of the biggest challenges of many Location Based Services (LBS), especially if the target users are pedestrians, who spend most of their time in roofed areas such as houses, offices, airports, shopping centres and in general indoors. Providing pedestrians with accurate, reliable, cheap, low power consuming and continuously available positional data inside the buildings (i.e. indoors) where GNSS signals are not usually available is difficult. Several positioning technologies can be applied as stand-alone indoor positioning technologies. They include Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Tactile Floor (TF), Ultra Sound (US) and High Sensitivity GNSS (HSGNSS). This paper evaluates the practicality and fitness-to-the-purpose of pedestrian navigation for these stand-alone positioning technologies to identify the best one for the purpose of indoor pedestrian navigation. In this regard, the most important criteria defining a suitable positioning service for pedestrian navigation are identified and prioritised. They include accuracy, availability, cost, power consumption and privacy. Each technology is evaluated according to each criterion using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and finally the combination of all weighted criteria and technologies are processed to identify the most suitable solution.
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spelling nottingham-334202020-05-04T17:10:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33420/ Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services Basiri, Anahid Peltola, Pekka Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro Lohan, Elena Simona Moore, Terry Hill, Chris Indoor positioning is one of the biggest challenges of many Location Based Services (LBS), especially if the target users are pedestrians, who spend most of their time in roofed areas such as houses, offices, airports, shopping centres and in general indoors. Providing pedestrians with accurate, reliable, cheap, low power consuming and continuously available positional data inside the buildings (i.e. indoors) where GNSS signals are not usually available is difficult. Several positioning technologies can be applied as stand-alone indoor positioning technologies. They include Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Tactile Floor (TF), Ultra Sound (US) and High Sensitivity GNSS (HSGNSS). This paper evaluates the practicality and fitness-to-the-purpose of pedestrian navigation for these stand-alone positioning technologies to identify the best one for the purpose of indoor pedestrian navigation. In this regard, the most important criteria defining a suitable positioning service for pedestrian navigation are identified and prioritised. They include accuracy, availability, cost, power consumption and privacy. Each technology is evaluated according to each criterion using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and finally the combination of all weighted criteria and technologies are processed to identify the most suitable solution. 2015-06-22 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Basiri, Anahid, Peltola, Pekka, Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro, Lohan, Elena Simona, Moore, Terry and Hill, Chris (2015) Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services. In: 2015 International Conference on Location and GNSS (ICL-GNSS), 22nd June 2015 - 24th June 2015, Gothenburg. Indoor positioning; Pedestrian navigation; Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2015.7217157 doi:10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2015.7217157 doi:10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2015.7217157
spellingShingle Indoor positioning; Pedestrian navigation; Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Basiri, Anahid
Peltola, Pekka
Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro
Lohan, Elena Simona
Moore, Terry
Hill, Chris
Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services
title Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services
title_full Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services
title_fullStr Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services
title_full_unstemmed Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services
title_short Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services
title_sort indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services
topic Indoor positioning; Pedestrian navigation; Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33420/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33420/