Indoor Location for Smart Environments with Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks

Abstract

Smart environments interconnect indoor building environments, indoor wireless sensor and actuator networks, smartphones, and human together to provide infrastructure management and intelligent user experiences. To enable the smart operations, a complete set of hardware and software components are required. In this work, we present Smart Syndesi, a system for creating indoor location-aware building environments using wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs). Smart Syndesi includes an indoor tracking system and a WSAN for environmental monitoring and actuator activation, interconnected via a gateway with mobile users. The indoor positioning system tracks the real-time location of occupants with high accuracy, which works as a basis for indoor location-based sensor actuation automation. To show how the multiple software/hardware components can be integrated, we implemented a system prototype and performed intensive experiments in indoor office environments.