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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

An Improved Bluetooth Indoor Positioning Method Using Dynamic Fingerprint Window.

Ling Ruan, Ling Zhang, Tong Zhou, Yi Long

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ling RuanKey Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210023, China.
Ling ZhangKey Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210023, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3228-8374
Tong ZhouKey Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210023, China.
Yi LongKey Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210023, China.
Nanjing Normal University · CN

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2017YFB0503500National Natural Science Foundation of China 41930104Natural ScienceFoundation of Jiangsu Province SBK2019022628
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The weighted K-nearest neighbor algorithm (WKNN) is easily implemented, and it has been widely applied. In the large-scale positioning regions, using all fingerprint data in matching calculations would lead to high computation expenses, which is not conducive to real-time positioning. Due to signal instability, irrelevant fingerprints reduce the positioning accuracy when performing the matching calculation process. Therefore, selecting the appropriate fingerprint data from the database more quickly and accurately is an urgent problem for improving WKNN. This paper proposes an improved Bluetooth indoor positioning method using a dynamic fingerprint window (DFW-WKNN). The dynamic fingerprint window is a space range for local fingerprint data searching instead of universal searching, and it can be dynamically adjusted according to the indoor pedestrian movement and always covers the maximum possible range of the next positioning. This method was tested and evaluated in two typical scenarios, comparing two existing algorithms, the traditional WKNN and the improved WKNN based on local clustering (LC-WKNN). The experimental results show that the proposed DFW-WKNN algorithm enormously improved both the positioning accuracy and positioning efficiency, significantly, when the fingerprint data increased.

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Bluetooth positioningdynamic windowfingerprint windowpositioning efficiency

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PMID33352918
PMCPMC7766140
OpenAlexW3113291456

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