A Participatory Service Platform for Indoor Location-Based Services

Author

Hyojeong Shin ; Yohan Chon ; Yungeun Kim ; Hojung Cha

Volume

14

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Jan.-Mar. 2015

Firstpage

62

Lastpage

69

Abstract

Providing indoor location-based services is challenging due to the vast coverage required and the scalability of positioning systems. This article proposes a participatory service platform for indoor location-based services to solve such problems. In the proposed platform, a few site trainers constructed an initial database of indoor positioning locations through minimal intrusive actions. Thereafter, crowd users of indoor positioning services opportunistically contributed sensing data to improve service quality. The proposed service platform provides an autonomous site-training tool for site trainers and a sample application for continuous contributions by individuals. This architecture takes advantage of crowdsourcing-based service construction and offloads the service costs.

Keywords

mobile computing; autonomous site-training tool; crowdsourcing-based service construction; indoor location-based services; participatory service platform; Crowdsourcing; Databases; Fingerprint recognition; Mobile communication; Mobile radio management; Radar tracking; Training; crowdsourcing; indoor positioning system; location-based service; mobile; participatory service; pervasive computing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Pervasive Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1268

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPRV.2015.1

Filename

7030274