Modelling the effect of human body around user on signal strength and accuracy of indoor positioning

WLAN indoor positioning system (IPS) has high accurate of position estimation and minimal cost. However, environmental conditions such as the people presence effect (PPE) greatly influence WLAN signal and it will decrease the accuracy. This research modelled the effect of people around user on signa...

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Main Authors: Firdaus, Firdaus, Ahmad, Noor Azurati, Sahibuddin, Shamsul, Dziyauddin, Rudzidatul Akmam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit UTHM 2020
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/97065/1/NoorAzuratiAhmad2020_ModellingtheEffectofHumanBodyaroundUser.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/97065/
http://dx.doi.org/10.30880/ijie.2020.12.07.008
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Language: English
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Summary:WLAN indoor positioning system (IPS) has high accurate of position estimation and minimal cost. However, environmental conditions such as the people presence effect (PPE) greatly influence WLAN signal and it will decrease the accuracy. This research modelled the effect of people around user on signal strength and the accuracy. We have modelled the human body around user effects by proposed a general equation of decrease in signal strength as function of position, distance, and number of people. Signal strength decreased from 5 dBm to 1 dBm when people in line of sight (LOS) position, and start from 0.5 dBm to 0.3 dBm when people in non-line of sight (NLOS) position. The system accuracy decreases due to the presence of people. When the system is in NLOS case, the presence of people causes a decrease in accuracy from 33% to 57%. Then the accuracy decrease from 273% to 334% in LOS case.