Indoor real time localization of iPhone users using WiFi networks

• Main Author: Muthusubramanian Bharanidharan.
• Other Authors: Xiao Gaoxi
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53194
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Location aware systems, the name sounds pretty familiar and used often, as there exists an infinite increase in mobile devices. We have focused on the approach of relating the two parameters, location of the mobile users with the received signal strength of the incoming packets to Wi-Fi networks, for locating the mobile users in indoor environment. Wi-Fi networks are chosen due to their well-known features like cost effectiveness and existing infrastructure in all domains as in industries, hospitals and various educations institutions.