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Indoor Localization Methods for Smartphones with Multi-Source Sensors Fusion: Tasks, Challenges, Strategies, and Perspectives

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Pubblicato in:Sensors vol. 25, no. 6 (2025), p. 1806
Autore principale: Liu, Jianhua
Altri autori: Yang, Zhijie, Zlatanova, Sisi, Li, Songnian, Yu, Bing
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MDPI AG
Soggetti:
Accuracy
Deep learning
Smartphones
Location based services
Computer vision
Magnetic fields
Sensors
Radio frequency identification
Methods
Navigation systems
Algorithms
Localization
Acoustics
Systematic review
Technology
Wireless access points
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Abstract:Positioning information greatly enhances the convenience of people’s lives and the efficiency of societal operations. However, due to the impact of complex indoor environments, GNSS signals suffer from multipath effects, blockages, and attenuation, making it difficult to provide reliable positioning services indoors. Smartphone indoor positioning and navigation is a crucial technology for enabling indoor location services. Nevertheless, relying solely on a single positioning technique can hardly achieve accurate indoor localization. We reviewed several main methods for indoor positioning using smartphone sensors, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cameras, microphones, inertial sensors, and others. Among these, wireless medium-based positioning methods are prone to interference from signals and obstacles in the indoor environment, while inertial sensors are limited by error accumulation. The fusion of multi-source sensors in complex indoor scenarios benefits from the complementary advantages of various sensors and has become a research hotspot in the field of pervasive indoor localization applications for smartphones. In this paper, we extensively review the current mainstream sensors and indoor positioning methods for smartphone multi-source sensor fusion. We summarize the recent research progress in this domain along with the characteristics of the relevant techniques and applicable scenarios. Finally, we collate and organize the key issues and technological outlooks of this field.
ISSN:1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s25061806
Fonte:Health & Medical Collection