Crowdsourced indoor localization for diverse devices through radiomap fusion

2013 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Laoudias, Christos ^a   Zeinalipour Yazti, Demetrios ^a   Panayiotou, Christos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

crowdsourcing; device diversity; localization

Indexed keywords

LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MOBILE DEVICES;

CROWDSOURCING; DEVICE DIVERSITIES; HETEROGENEOUS MOBILE DEVICES; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; NETWORK MEASUREMENT;

PERSONAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84902162696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPIN.2013.6817906     Document Type: Conference Paper

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