Fault-Tolerant indoor localization based on speed conscious recurrent neural network using Kullback-Leibler divergence.

Abstract

IoT services are the basic building blocks of smart cities, and some of such crucial services are provided by smart buildings. Most of the services like smart meters, indoor navigation, lighting control, etc., which contribute to smart buildings, need the locations of people or objects within the building. This gave rise to Indoor Localization, where only the infrastructure of the building has to be used for localization as accessing the Global Positioning System is difficult in indoor environments. Many approaches have been proposed to predict locations based on the infrastructure available indoors, and some of such techniques use Wi-Fi access points. Still, unfortunately, very few studies have concentrated on tolerating faults while being cost-effective. This work discusses hardware implementation of indoor localization. It then proposes a learning algorithm SRNN (Speed Conscious Recurrent Neural Network) that uses the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) values of available Wi-Fi access points in the building and predicts the location. Also, fault-tolerant approaches termed nearest RSSI and the most recent RSSI using Kullback–Leibler Divergence have been proposed to improve the location accuracy when access points go down and are prone to faults. Both the proposed approaches nearest RSSI and most recent RSSI along with SRNN improve the location accuracy by 4% and 2.1%, respectively, over existing techniques and contribute to optimizing predicted location's accuracy in Indoor Localization an IoT service for smart buildings.Supplementary informationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12083-022-01301-y.