Survey of Indoor Positioning Technologies and Systems

This paper presents the state-of-the-art of the leading indoor positioning technologies and systems. The positioning technology is classified into the active positioning system and the passive positioning system, which are presented respectively in detail, including wireless local area network, radio frequency identification, Bluetooth, inertial navigation, and magnetic field positioning. Additionally, the advantages and disadvantages of various indoor positioning technologies and systems are analyzed, as well as the positioning accuracy, applicability, and working principle. Particularly, in order to better understand them, the key performance parameters of the mentioned technologies and systems are finally compared using a table.

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