Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions
Indoor Location Based Services (LBS), such as indoor navigation and tracking, still have to deal with both technical and non-technical challenges. For this reason, they have not yet found a prominent position in people’s everyday lives. Reliability and availability of indoor positioning technologies...
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| author | Basiri, Anahid Lohan, Elena Simona Moore, Terry Winstanley, Adam Peltola, Pekka Hill, Chris Amirian, Pouria Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro |
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| description | Indoor Location Based Services (LBS), such as indoor navigation and tracking, still have to deal with both technical and non-technical challenges. For this reason, they have not yet found a prominent position in people’s everyday lives. Reliability and availability of indoor positioning technologies, the availability of up-to-date indoor maps, and privacy concerns associated with location data are some of the biggest challenges to their development. If these challenges were solved, or at least minimized, there would be more penetration into the user market. This paper studies the requirements of LBS applications, through a survey conducted by the authors, identifies the current challenges of indoor LBS, and reviews the available solutions that address the most important challenge, that of providing seamless indoor/outdoor positioning. The paper also looks at the potential of emerging solutions and the technologies that may help to handle this challenge. |
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| spelling | nottingham-428032020-05-04T19:57:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42803/ Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions Basiri, Anahid Lohan, Elena Simona Moore, Terry Winstanley, Adam Peltola, Pekka Hill, Chris Amirian, Pouria Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro Indoor Location Based Services (LBS), such as indoor navigation and tracking, still have to deal with both technical and non-technical challenges. For this reason, they have not yet found a prominent position in people’s everyday lives. Reliability and availability of indoor positioning technologies, the availability of up-to-date indoor maps, and privacy concerns associated with location data are some of the biggest challenges to their development. If these challenges were solved, or at least minimized, there would be more penetration into the user market. This paper studies the requirements of LBS applications, through a survey conducted by the authors, identifies the current challenges of indoor LBS, and reviews the available solutions that address the most important challenge, that of providing seamless indoor/outdoor positioning. The paper also looks at the potential of emerging solutions and the technologies that may help to handle this challenge. Elsevier 2017-05 Article PeerReviewed Basiri, Anahid, Lohan, Elena Simona, Moore, Terry, Winstanley, Adam, Peltola, Pekka, Hill, Chris, Amirian, Pouria and Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro (2017) Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions. Computer Science Review, 24 . pp. 1-12. ISSN 1574-0137 indoor positioning; location-based services; location privacy http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574013716301782 doi:10.1016/j.cosrev.2017.03.002 doi:10.1016/j.cosrev.2017.03.002 |
| spellingShingle | indoor positioning; location-based services; location privacy Basiri, Anahid Lohan, Elena Simona Moore, Terry Winstanley, Adam Peltola, Pekka Hill, Chris Amirian, Pouria Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions |
| title | Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions |
| title_full | Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions |
| title_fullStr | Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions |
| title_short | Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions |
| title_sort | indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions |
| topic | indoor positioning; location-based services; location privacy |
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