Fourth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOMW'06)
An Adaptive Two-Phase Approach to WiFi Location Sensing
Pisa, Italy
March 13-March 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2520-2
Environmental variations cause significant fluctuations in WiFi signals in the same location over time, rendering traditional RF-to-location pre-trained maps quickly obsolete. To solve this problem, we use a two-phase approach to determining the user?s location. The first phase utilizes traditional patternmatching to identify the general location, and a second phase applies logistic regression to distinguish between finer-grained locations. An adaptive calibration system allows the user to re-train and dynamically update the signal strength maps to account for the fluctuated signals. We show that our two-phase approach is able to achieve generally high accuracy (95%) and over in areas of high signal fluctuations due to heavy access point and human density.
Citation:
Wenyao Ho, Asim Smailagic, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Christos Faloutsos, "An Adaptive Two-Phase Approach to WiFi Location Sensing," percomw, pp.452-456, Fourth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOMW'06), 2006