Two-Phase Indoor Positioning Technique in Wireless Networking Environment

Positioning of real world objects (e.g., people) in indoor environment will facilitate location dependent or context-aware applications. Due to severe multi-path fading effect in indoor wireless environment, received signal strength indicator (RSSI) based indoor positioning systems usually require a great amount of human intervention for data measurement during the system initiation. This paper proposes a novel two-phase positioning technique that has been implemented and tested in real environment. Experiment results show that our method can significantly cut down the requirements on data acquisition and achieve satisfactory performance in terms of error distance.