Abstract

Trusted positioning data are very important for the fusion of Bluetooth fingerprint positioning (BFP) and Wi-Fi fingerprint positioning (WFP). This paper proposes an adaptive Bluetooth/Wi-Fi fingerprint positioning method based on Gaussian process regression (GPR) and relative distance (RD), which can choose trusted positioning results for fusion. In the offline stage, measurements of the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi received signal strength (RSS) were collected to construct Bluetooth and Wi-Fi fingerprint databases, respectively. Then, fingerprint positioning error prediction models were built with GPR and data from the fingerprint databases. In the online stage, online Bluetooth and Wi-Fi RSS readings were matched with the fingerprint databases to get a Bluetooth fingerprint positioning result (BFPR) and a Wi-Fi fingerprint positioning result (WFPR). Then, with the help of RD and fingerprint positioning error prediction models, whether the positioning results are trusted was determined. The trusted result is selected as the position estimation result when there is only one trusted positioning result among the BFPR and WFPR. The mean is chosen as the position estimation result when both the BFPR and WFPR results are trusted or untrusted. Experimental results showed that the proposed method was better than BFP and WFP, with a mean positioning error of 2.06 m and a root-mean-square error of 1.449 m.

Highlights

  • Indoor positioning technology has attracted extensive attention as an important part of location-based services (LBS)

  • This paper proposes an adaptive Bluetooth/wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) fingerprint positioning method (ABWFP), based on Gaussian process regression (GPR) and relative distance (RD), which can determine whether the Bluetooth fingerprint positioning result (BFPR) and Wi-Fi fingerprint positioning result (WFPR) are trusted

  • This paper proposed an adaptive Bluetooth/Wi-Fi fingerprint method based on Gaussian process regression and relative distance to realize the fusion of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi fingerprint

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Summary

Introduction

Indoor positioning technology has attracted extensive attention as an important part of location-based services (LBS). It is necessary to study the fusion of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi positioning technologies to make the most of existing signals for indoor positioning. It is important to determine that the positioning results used in the fusion of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth positioning are trusted. This paper proposes an adaptive Bluetooth/Wi-Fi fingerprint positioning method (ABWFP), based on GPR and relative distance (RD), which can determine whether the Bluetooth fingerprint positioning result (BFPR) and Wi-Fi fingerprint positioning result (WFPR) are trusted. It realizes the adaptive mixing of BFP and WFP and improves the positioning accuracy and stability. If neither of the two positioning results is credible, the mean is still taken as the positioning result

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