Indoor Location Estimation Using Smart Antenna System

In indoor location environment, shadowing, multipath and reflection phenomena make the position estimation inaccurate. Large number of Access Points (APs) equipped with single antenna could obtain enough Receive Signal Strength (RSS) information to describe signal characteristics of the target space. However, it results in a large investment costs. This paper provides a novel indoor positioning solution using the multi-antennas architecture to increase the accuracy of location estimation. The system obtains enough RSS to compute the user location and provides a reasonable cost of deployments in indoor location environment. Experimental and numerical results show that the proposed indoor location estimation demonstrates a high accuracy of positioning and outstanding performance when RSS is collected by smart antenna technique. More specifically, the accuracy is increased from 1.34% to 92.4% and the error variance is reduced by 96% as compared to the traditional location fingerprint method.

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