Indoor geo-fencing and access control for wireless networks

Having an idea of a user's location when he/she is using network services has been an area of interest ever since wireless networks became very popular. As the costs of wireless technologies decrease more and more, we observe the rise of an extremely diverse market of wireless capable devices. However, the field of indoor positioning is still wide open. In this field, most of the existing technologies are dependent on additional hardware and/or infrastructure, which increases the requirements for users. In this research, we investigate the ways of coupling indoor geo-fencing with access control including authentication and registration. To achieve this, we apply a classification based geo-fencing approach using received signal strength indicator. Consequently, we are mainly focusing on associating accurate geo-fencing with secure communication and computing. Experimental results show that we have achieved considerable positioning accuracy while providing a secure way of communication. Favouring diversity, our implementation does not mandate users to undergo any system software modification or adding new hardware components.

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