Novel iBeacon Placement for Indoor Positioning in IoT

Rezazadeh, J; Subramanian, R; Sandrasegaran, K; Kong, X; Moradi, M; Khodamoradi, F

Novel iBeacon Placement for Indoor Positioning in IoT

Rezazadeh, J

Subramanian, R Sandrasegaran, K

Kong, X

Moradi, M Khodamoradi, F

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018, 18 (24), pp. 10240 - 10247
Issue Date:: 2018-12-15

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dc.contributor.author	Rezazadeh, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-0117	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Subramanian, R	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Sandrasegaran, K https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1270-5756	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Kong, X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7855-858X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Moradi, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Khodamoradi, F	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-10-01T19:03:48Z
dc.date.issued	2018-12-15	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018, 18 (24), pp. 10240 - 10247	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1530-437X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128367
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 IEEE. Indoor positioning and location estimation inside the buildings is still challenging in the Internet of Things platform. However, the GPS signals could successfully solve the outdoor localization problem. A recently introduced RSS-based device, named iBeacon, paves the way to estimate the users location inside the buildings. Due to the complexity of indoor RF environments, the positioning accuracy is affected by the placement of the iBeacons. Inadvertently, the concept of iBeacon placement for improving the accuracy remains unattended by the current research. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and experiments on the importance of iBeacon placement, and factors impacting the beacon signal quality. Moreover, we propose a novel beacon placement strategy, Crystal-shape iBeacon Placement. As another contribution, a customized application for android is developed which is used for recording and analyzing the iBeacon signals. Our proposed placement strategy could achieve 21.7% higher precision than the existing normal iBeacon placement.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	IEEE Sensors Journal	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/JSEN.2018.2875037	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.classification	Analytical Chemistry	en_US
dc.title	Novel iBeacon Placement for Indoor Positioning in IoT	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	24	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	18	en_US
utslib.for	0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering	en_US
utslib.for	0205 Optical Physics	en_US
utslib.for	0913 Mechanical Engineering	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Electrical and Data Engineering
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CRIN - Realtime Information Networks
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Students
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pubs.issue	24	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
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Abstract:

© 2018 IEEE. Indoor positioning and location estimation inside the buildings is still challenging in the Internet of Things platform. However, the GPS signals could successfully solve the outdoor localization problem. A recently introduced RSS-based device, named iBeacon, paves the way to estimate the users location inside the buildings. Due to the complexity of indoor RF environments, the positioning accuracy is affected by the placement of the iBeacons. Inadvertently, the concept of iBeacon placement for improving the accuracy remains unattended by the current research. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and experiments on the importance of iBeacon placement, and factors impacting the beacon signal quality. Moreover, we propose a novel beacon placement strategy, Crystal-shape iBeacon Placement. As another contribution, a customized application for android is developed which is used for recording and analyzing the iBeacon signals. Our proposed placement strategy could achieve 21.7% higher precision than the existing normal iBeacon placement.

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